Magellan RoadMate 3030 / 3030LM Portable GPS Navigator

I received a Garmin for Christmas a few years ago, and I badly needed to upgrade to something new. Although my old GPS got the job done, it didn't say street names, it was really bulky, and you had to pay to update maps. I got this as an Amazon...

We first used a Magellan gps in a rental car for a roadtrip last summer.  Up until that point and time both my husband and myself had made fun of people for using them.  "Why can't people just use a good mapsco for 20.00 bucks??"  (we are not that old,...