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Magellan Roadmate 3120 review - "retro" review challenge in 5 minutes or less

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Here's the results of a "5 minute review challenge" a lot of people are doing lately: I did this when I was on my tablet with limited connectivity on a extensive 10 hour road trip. The challenge was to get it done in 5 minutes while also taking pics of certain areas of a product that's typically hard to review and think of on the spur of the moment. Also the "retro" reviews are getting quite common specially with stuff that's off the beaten path like GPUs units, old consoles, old networking hardware, phones, etc... Enough with the intro and here we are at the actual review! Note: from this point on nothing has been alltered from a raw notepad file typed on my tablet since the 3G was cutting out a lot (backwoods west virginia can do that to yah lol) Magellan roadmate 3120 the magellan roadmate 3120 is a great midtier gpus unit that has a great ui, fast signal, decent amount of features, and is affordable and fun to use. accuracy on eta d...

My Mom's horrific story about going to Canada

I should have known the trip was not going to turn out well, by the way it started. The morning flight was postponed for 5 hours due to freezing fog at the Parkersburg airport and as a result I had to wait 4 hours in Cleveland for the connecting flight. Somehow my carry on bag lost it's tag during the first flight and had to be checked in at this point, so I did not have access to it. Thank god I had all the paperwork in my purse. When I got to Canada I had to go through the Canadian Immigration Dept. because of the fact that I was performing work for my company there. We have canadians who work for us, but this was a special last minute request and could not be done on time without me picking up some of the work. I am not going into the specifics of the paperwork my company provided to me, but according to the Canadian Immigration Agent, it was not correctly written. After being grilled by the agent for almost 5 hours (yelled at for getting up off my chair to use the bathr...