1. It's Either Buy A GPS Or A Divorce

I'm a typical male. One of my major Y-chromosome related faults is that I hate to ask for directions. Sometimes I can literally feel the daggers my wife shoots at me with her eyes as we twist and turn endlessly through unknown highways and streets seeking our destination. It's not that I haven't tried to find a technological crutch for my aversion to asking for directions. I've been looking for a good Global Positioning System (GPS) device for a long time. I must have looked at 15 GPSes over the last few years. None met my requirements. When I bought my beloved Toyota Prius last year I was tempted to get the highly touted GPS system that comes with the car, but the additional $4,000 the unit adds to the car's price tag was more than I was ready to pay.

After getting lost while driving with my wife one recent weekend in the Westlake Village/Thousand Oaks area where TG Publishing's offices are located, I decided to ratchet up my search for a GPS device. I looked at various units from the usual suspects, Magellan and Garmin, in local stores. They didn't impress me all that much. Then I discovered the Dutch company TomTom. Its GPSes looked most promising, especially the Go 700 model. So I got my hands on one and began testing it out.

Can TomTom's Go 700 GPS save our author from a richly deserved divorce?

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