Okay, I'm home -- found my way back here despite the best efforts of the Nuvi. Hunh?, you ask? Well, when I first turned it on and started moving it told me that I was only about one mile from home. Hunh?? I hadn't pushed ANY buttons or even touched the screen. I drove on, and sure enough -- a few second later it told me I was "home". Now I'm not sure, but even back when I was drinking I don't think we lived in that particular swamp.
So I have read the instructions and know now how to program it to find the house. I will NOT use the function where I ask it to take me to 509 Dukes Road, at least 'til I've tried it - 'cause the last GPS insisted that we lived about a half-mile north of where we live.
I'm pleased with the accuracy of it in other ways, though -- it displays the speed limit of whatever stretch of road I'm on -- and dang it if it doesn't change said display within 100 feet or less when I pass the "new" speed limit sign. That's fine shootin'.
And I did finally find the keyboard into which I can type the address, so I will be able to program things like Charles address or 22 Enterprise Court and so on.
Thanks, everyone, for helping me get over the sticker shock of opening a new toy and finding only those lame-axx "picture" instructions.
By the way, Dean - and the rest of you -- I'm still of the old paper map persuasion, as I said. Each Christmas my favorite gift (well, so to speak) is the newest edition of the Wal-Mart branded Rand-McNally road atlas. I keep it in the truck whenever we travel, because it's a pretty good map -- and when we're traveling we can find the nearest Wal-Mart (I suppose that the GPS would tell me that, too). But -- when I get the new atlas I put the old one on the coffee table and refer to it about a zillion times a year, whether I'm reading a book and want to see just where such-and-such is happening -- or I'm talking with one of the kids and want to show them just where I mean. Can't do that with the GPS.