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Jun 17th, 2007, 09:20 PM
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Re: GPS units. Look what Robespierre just posted on the Europe board: a rebate offer running through June 19 for a good, inexpensive GPS! Thought you might be interested...
http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...2&tid=35017352
(Delorme is a well established mapping company headquartered in Maine. They have a very cool globe that I first noticed on a vacation a few years ago:
www.delorme.com/about/eartha.aspx.)
http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...2&tid=35017352
(Delorme is a well established mapping company headquartered in Maine. They have a very cool globe that I first noticed on a vacation a few years ago:
www.delorme.com/about/eartha.aspx.)
Jun 18th, 2007, 12:16 AM
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Thanks for all your help. We all suffer a lot from sun exposure & always wear lots of sunscreen. The seashore will be too much in the day so maybe in the afternoon when its cooler we might manage some of the magnificent seashore you mention vttraveller on the Cape.
The offer on GPS system by Delorme appears to relate to laptop systems, whilst the actual GPS systems are comparative to most other companies. Thanks ggreen as the info all helps for when I actually try to get a system over there. I don't want to be blinded by science & having some knowledge on the systems available is very useful. In any event if your info didn't help me it may help someone else reading this thread which is just as important.
The offer on GPS system by Delorme appears to relate to laptop systems, whilst the actual GPS systems are comparative to most other companies. Thanks ggreen as the info all helps for when I actually try to get a system over there. I don't want to be blinded by science & having some knowledge on the systems available is very useful. In any event if your info didn't help me it may help someone else reading this thread which is just as important.
Jun 18th, 2007, 05:40 AM
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Ah well, I should have read the offer before posting the link. As soon as I saw the thread it made me think of you!
The beach is lovely in the late afternoon and early evening: less heat, less sun, less people. The air is soft and breezy; bring a light coverup and a picnic and dig your toes in the sand. One of the real pleasures of a summer by the seashore!
The beach is lovely in the late afternoon and early evening: less heat, less sun, less people. The air is soft and breezy; bring a light coverup and a picnic and dig your toes in the sand. One of the real pleasures of a summer by the seashore!
Jun 18th, 2007, 03:35 PM
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We vacation every year in Chatham.. It would save you a tremendous amout of time driving in that dreadful traffic if you could stay in the Chatham area or at least on the elbow of the cape.. From Chatham, P town is a good hour drive and then you are making a second trip to Truro?
Jun 19th, 2007, 12:13 AM
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sussannah - Provincetown will be a full day trip on its own but I added a stop at Orleans for a break & to have a walk around. Truro & now Wellfleet have turned into a day trip as well. I don't think I could give them enough time to visit them all in one day.
I did not come up with much for Chatham in my guidebooks. As you are there every year is there anything that should tempt me to go there rather than Sandwich or Brewster - I would have to give up a trip to one of them to see Chatham.
I did not come up with much for Chatham in my guidebooks. As you are there every year is there anything that should tempt me to go there rather than Sandwich or Brewster - I would have to give up a trip to one of them to see Chatham.
Jun 19th, 2007, 06:09 AM
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IMO, Chatham would not be a replacement for Sandwich and Brewster. Don't get me wrong, it's a cute town, great lighthouse, etc. But you will get a taste of similar things elsewhere on the Cape.
I lived in Chatham in the off-season, and it was still terrible traffic getting to/from town to Route 6. If you look at a map, Chatham is the very tip of the "elbow" of the Cape, with a single roadway that connects it to Route 6 as the latter turns to go up towards Orleans and P-town. So I would save dealing with traffic for the places you've already determined are important to you!
I lived in Chatham in the off-season, and it was still terrible traffic getting to/from town to Route 6. If you look at a map, Chatham is the very tip of the "elbow" of the Cape, with a single roadway that connects it to Route 6 as the latter turns to go up towards Orleans and P-town. So I would save dealing with traffic for the places you've already determined are important to you!
