Thu, Feb 05, 2009
Cartoys
Posted to Travel category
I will be heading out Saturday morning for the drive to Mobile for a 3 month consulting gig.
Our company has some GPS units on order, but they won't bein until next week, so I stopped at CarToys, which was in the way home from my optometrist appointment. They have been advertising a sale all week on the radio.
I now have a GPS for the truck: a TomTom One 130.
I also have a new radio with a built-in CD player and an aux jack. The factory radio just had a tape player (which tends to eat tapes) -- the truck is a 2000 model and car stereos with CDs were expensive in those days.
The new stereo is not a luxury. According to Rand-McNally this trip is going to take 23+ hours of actual driving time. Now I can be sure I will have something to listen to other than country-western music and Christian stations when I am driving across Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas this weekend.
The new radio doesn't include a clock (or maybe it is hidden: I need to check the manual) but that is a small price to pay for staying sane across Texas...