playinghooky -
It may sound absolutely silly but once (long, long ago) we had one of the Garmin "Hiker" version GPS ... no download capabilities.
My wife & I made a couple of weekend events out of going around the Lake (chart in hand) and physically entering each Floating light as a waypoint (Due to limited number of characters allowed our coding was simply B for black top / RED for red top .... ex: 1B or 44RED) --
It created a great day's adventure and forced us to explore the Lake in our early years.
Obviously since then we have upgraded somewhat ... Nuvi .... with downloaded chart ... but to this day we still have the old faithful still in working condition
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A bad day on the Big Lake (although I've never had one) - Still beats a day at the office!!
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