Well today wasn't the best day we have had so far as we had no GPS and we were having thunderstorms. I got up and tried loading the maps into the unit but still with no luck. Then I looked all over the Garmin web site and nothing that pertained to my problem. We found a Bass pro Shop Store close to us so we decided that we would go buy another GPS and if it wasn't that then we could return it and we also bought another mapping program which was a newer version of the one we have. We went back to the RV and I started deleting and loading and deleting and loading and no luck whatsoever. See you only get one unlock code to unlock the maps for your GPS unit and I unlocked it for our old unit to see if it was just the mapping program and not the unit, so I couldn't even try it in the new unit. I have to call Garmin on Monday and they will give me another code to unlock the maps with. So we have no GPS for our trip into New Orleans tomorrow for caching. We will have to use our Tom Tom for going and coming back and will have to wait till Monday to talk to Garmin and get it straightened out. I really think the GPS unit is going or gone bad as it has been acting kind of funny lately and not doing some of the requests that I have asked it to do.
After I got done fooling around with the GPS we did take a ride into Ponchatoula, LA to take a look around. Ponchatoula is the oldest incorportated city in Tangipahoa Parish. It got it's name from the Choctaw Indian language meaning "hair to Hang" because of the abundance of Spanish moss on the trees surrounding the area. It is the "Strawberry Capital of the World" and it will be there 37th Strawberry Festival in 2 weeks which typically host 250,000 people which makes it the largest weekend festival in the state. We have seen vendors along the road ever since we left Bay St. Louis selling the Ponchatoula strawberries and we stopped and got some for a shortcake tonight. They are supposed to be the best and sweetest strawberries in the world. Well time for dinner and then we are going to watch tv later and have our strawberry shortcke....yum yum and leave early tomorrow for New Orleans.
Picture List: 1,2-Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival Statue, 3-one of the buildings in the older section of town, 4-Richardson Hardware "everything you need in hardware", 5,6,7-Ponchatoula Depot and train.
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