My husband loves technology.  I usually have to be convinced.  He wanted a GPS for a long time before I finally relented and let him get one.  Our first one was meant mainly for hiking.  It was rugged and not very user-friendly.  It would tell you where you were but not what was around you (no "points of interest").  I continued to rely on my old tried-and-true method of finding directions on Yahoo! maps and printing them out.  When he got the Garmin Nuvi 200, however, I began to change my mind.

My husband had some good points.  Although Yahoo! maps printouts had never steered us wrong,...