- Today, we're heading
from Tennessee to Kentucky, and we're gonna take you
along on our travel day. - But it's not just a normal travel day because we're also gonna show down our two GPS's head to head to see if we can figure
out which one is better. (upbeat music)
♪ Hey ♪ ♪ Hey ♪ (vocalizing) For those of you who may have seen our RV trip planning and GPS video, and reached out to see
if we're still using our Rand McNally Overdrive 7, we're not. - We're not. - It's not because we don't like it, it's still a very good GPS, but Eric at Techno RV reached out to see if we wanted to try
out the new Garmin 890. - Well that's a question that we get a lot from a lot of viewers that they ask, do we know the difference between the Garmin and the Rand McNally? That's why we're doing this video. We didn't have problems
really with the Rand McNally, but because we trust Eric
and Tammy from Techno RV and we trust their judgment and we value what they have to say-- - And because we want
to let you guys know. - And we want to let you guys know, we decided to take this travel day and put in both the test side by side or one on top of the other. But before we do that, we're pulling forward because it's time to dump the black tank so we
can get the heck out of here. We might as well cut to last
night when Chad starts the planning process and that's
where all this starts. - That's right.
- So here we go. Dump those tanks, baby. I always feel bad for the people behind us because we have two big tanks and they're both getting dumped. And by two tanks, I actually mean four because we have two gray and two black. And so, sorry guys, you're
gonna have to wait a few. - Each travel day actually starts in here, back in the office the
night before travel, because you know us, we're planners. We like to have everything
kind of mapped out if we can. We'd like to know what we can know. You can see here, I've got my RV Trip Wizard up. If you watched our trip
planning and GPS video, where we actually reviewed this
Rand McNally the first time, you're familiar with this tool. This is the tool that we use
to find, to plan, to research. It's the core of our traveling, really, whenever we want to see,
okay, what's our itinerary? Where are we going? That kind of thing. We want to find campgrounds and RV parks. This is the tool. And it's really, really an awesome tool. We will have a link for this below, but that's not what this is about. We're gonna be traveling
from Panther Creek State Park to Whispering Hills RV Park. The plan here is to basically
get the address in the GPS so I don't have to do it in the morning, and I also want to verify our route and I want to take a look at
rest areas and fuel stops. If I see that there's gonna
be just a ton of places to stop for fuel, kind of like this trip, because a lot of it's gonna be on I-75, I don't worry about it a whole lot, but I do check it in the GPS
and see that it sees them and that it'll be easy to stop. If we have a really long day and we're starting out
early in the morning, and if we're traveling somewhere that might not be across an interstate, I will almost always find
a fuel stop in Trip Wizard and save it into our trip, just in case we can't
find one along the way, we know we have one marked. But step one is to plug in
the destination into the GPS. I'm gonna do that for each GPS, so you can see kind of how that goes. I'm gonna kill these overhead lights so you can see the screen a little better. I am going to enter in the addresses. So we're going to Whispering Hills RV Park in Georgetown, Kentucky. I know that I can look
on here and see that. And let me put this into our new nav, which is the Garmin 890. I just click on where to, and I've noticed on this particular GPS, a lot of GPSs is you have to go select the city and state and kind of get it in the location first. This one is pretty good about
just doing an overall search. (upbeat music) And hit search. It finds the closest ones first, Whispering Hills, Tennessee. But you can see the
Whispering Hills RV Park here. We'll go ahead and select that. And then what I'll do is
I'll hit the info here and hit save, that way it is ready to go in the morning, but I'm also gonna go ahead and click go. - Please drive to highlighted route. - [Chad] There we go. We've got that entered here. I want to kind of take a look
at the overall route here. I'm just gonna zoom out. If I look at this route and compare it to my route on the screen here, I liked the route the
GPS came up with better because I can see that this route has me going through some back roads that I don't necessarily want to do. I much prefer to get down
to the closest interstate and go that way. I'm gonna go ahead and go up here. I'm gonna click on drag route and I trust the navigation of the GPS more than I do RV Trip Wizard. I just do. Using the phone app, it sometimes doesn't quite get it right. It'll do it, but it'll pick up a longer
route for some reason. I am going to always
rely on the dedicated GPS before I rely on the
software on the computer. I'm gonna go ahead and
drag this over here, just so I can show you how I will look for fuel stops on our route. I'm gonna go over here
to our research tab, but I like to look on
here and just get a feel for how many fuel stops we have. And when I say fuel stops, I mean diesel fuel and I mean truck stops. We have a video out there called
Big RV in the Truck Lanes, and we only use truck stops
and truck lanes because we're about the same size
as a tractor trailer. My point here is I'm gonna be looking for these truck stops. For now, I'm looking
here, I see some Loves. That was a little bit further away. We're starting out with
a half a tank of fuel. Let's look at Flying J and Pilot. Oh, there's a ton. I'd know I don't have to
worry about fuel on this trip. I can find it on the way. If we were in a rural area that was, has a bit more sparse
population of truck stops, I would definitely find one
the night before and fuel up. And I'm going to take this
Pilot that's 122 miles away. I know we have that much range. I'm gonna go ahead and add
it to our trip right after Panther Creek, just so we have it in there. While we're traveling, if
I decide to open up the app and look at it, I can find that fuel stop. Let's go ahead and look on the GPS here, and I'll show you a trick with this. The two things we're
primarily concerned with when we're traveling, are fuel stops and rest areas. These GPS is can do a lot of other things. They can find restaurants, entertainment, you can do your trip planning, all kinds of tools in
here that we don't use so we're not gonna review those. We're primarily concerned with getting from point A to point
B safely with a large RV, having the system know
our height and weight and all that good stuff, and places to stop and go to
the bathroom and have lunch. That's really all we do on our travel day. We're not sightseeing with a 60 foot RV. But if you look here,
you can see first of all, that I'm dealing with this RV 13.6, of course you can put in your parameters, but I can also switch
between car and fifth wheel. I could put class A in there, I could put whatever I want in here and it will know the
dimensions and the weight, whether it's got propane
and it routes appropriately. I can't stress the importance
of having an RV-aware GPS. We see so many people out there who say, "Oh, "I use Google maps." Or, "I use Waze." And those do not route
based on your height or weight or any of that. So they're not made for RVs. Along that note of being able
to find rest areas fuel stops, let's just take a look at the Garmin here and see what we show on our way. One thing I really like about this Garmin is this up next feature. If you click this and
it's got four categories and it'll show you what's up next in each of those categories. Now by default, it's
got rest areas in here. So that's cool. But the fuel stations, it doesn't have truck stops
or service stations like that. It's got every gas station on the world, which is completely useless
to us with a large RV, but I found a way around it. Each of these four categories here, you can customize and put
whatever you want in there. And if you click on, let's just say this and then click on the wrench icon up here, you can see that I can reorder these, but I can also change them. I can have things like red
light cameras, restaurants, just all kinds of stuff in here that are in the default buckets. You might notice nothing
here for truck stops, but I can go to custom
search and type truck stops, and then I can pick an icon for it and I can put it wherever
I want it in my list here. I'll leave it there. And I'll hit save. Now, I have truck stops and you can see they are all trucks stops. Pilot, TA, Petro, Pilot. So now I can see actual truck stops that I can use fueling
right there on the screen. And you saw, I could also
see rest areas on there. Let's get our address into
the Rand McNally Overdrive 7. This one is a little bit different. You'll notice if I go
in here and I just type Whispering Hills, it does show Whispering Hills RV Park because I've searched for it before. But in previous attempts at this, it does not find it by default. You've got to go in here to guided search and then do points of
interest and then do city. And then you can put in the
city where the RV park is. In this case, it's Georgetown, Kentucky. And one thing this does, it has that old school GPS thing that it does with the keyboard. And you'll see what I mean. G-E-O-R and then I don't even get the type the G. It just assumes. G-E comma. Oops, I forgot the town. George, T. Okay, now it knows town. It does that weird thing
where it tries to predict and then limit your keyboard. And in any case, Kentucky. So I do Kentucky and then
I can do RV campgrounds, all campgrounds, and there it is Whispering Hills. Here I'm gonna click save to favorites. Now I've got them saved in
both GPSs for the morning. So begin route. - In 0.2 miles, turn left on
Panther Creek Park Road TN-342. - [Chad] This particular device, as far as finding things like
rest areas and truck stops has it out of the box. That's a plus one for the Rand McNally. You can see that if I click
on travel centers here, it's got a list of Pilots and Flying Js. That's what I'm looking for. It calls them travel
centers versus truck stops, and we also have parking and
rest areas all in one here. Now, one thing I have noticed about the difference between these two is the Garmin is good about
only showing you rest stops on your particular direction of travel. If you're going North on I-75, you don't really care about
the southbound rest areas, even though they're usually together, you just don't care about them, and you don't want to
see them on your list. This GPS, the Rand McNally, does show both directions
most of the time. So you can see that I-75
southbound and northbound, I'm gonna be going north. I don't really care
about the southbound one. But it's just one of those things, just a little quirk. I'm done with the GPSs. Basically, I just wanted
to get the address in there and save it and look at the
route and kind of get a feel for what the trip looks like tomorrow. This next step I do in RV Trip Wizard, and this is basically gonna familiarize me with my actual destination, so I know what it looks
like before I get there. In RV Trip Wizard here, I am going to click on my destination and it'll kind of zoom
in like you can see here. And I just got a feel for
everything from the exit if I'm traveling on the interstate or major highway to the destination. And I can see here that I'm just gonna be getting off an exit here, going left and then right, and then right. And boom, there's my destination. Another thing I like to do is
I will go to more details here and I'll click on satellite map and this just launches
Google in satellite map mode and shows you the RV park. This is really good when
you're planning also, and you kind of want to look
at the actual physical layout, compare it to their map kind of thing. In this particular one, I know that we go under
the overpass right here. So I want to take a look at that and see. I'm gonna drag my little
street view guy over here and drop him right down here, where I can take a look at that bridge and see if it has a sign
as to how high it is. And this is a very early
Google street view. Let me look and see what
the date is on this. 2009 and clearly the camera
wasn't very good on this. Sometimes you go into
street view and it's crisp, and it's clear and you can read signs. I can see this has no sign. So I'm gonna go back
over here to Trip Wizard. And I am going to turn on
the hide and show hazards, and I don't have any
hazards popping up there. This thing will pop up
and show all low bridges. You can see as I click it on and off here, I feel pretty good about it considering Trip Wizard
doesn't show it as a hazard, that neither GPS shows it as a hazard going into that location. My next step is to go back over here and I want to just kind
of take a look at the actual entrance to the RV park. And I don't know if they're gonna have this RV park here in 2009. So this may not be the best example. You can see it's being built. There's the, the clubhouse
and stuff or whatever that is. Not the best example, because it's an old Google street view. But most of the time you can actually see, oh, I can see there's a
sign for it over here. Or it's a tight entrance. Or I might see there's
lots of trees overhanging. It just gives me a feel
for what it looks like, what to look out for. This is the process that
I go through to make sure I know what to expect when
we get to our destination. I feel confident that
tomorrow's route is solid and not gonna have any problems getting fuel or rest areas for lunch. So we're good to go and
we'll see you in the morning. Alrighty. I will go here to the
thing I saved last night. Whispering Hills. Go, start a new route. - Going to Whispering Hills RV Park. - [Chad] Favorites. My saved location. We're at Whispering Hills. Navigate. - Proceed to the highlighted route. - Alrighty, you ready?
- Yes. - [Chad] All right, headin' out. (easy listening music) It looks like the Rand
McNally has us arriving in four hours and eight minutes, but the Garmin has us arriving in three hours and 34 minutes. - In a half mile, turn left on Panther Creek Road TN 342. - [Chad] That computerized sounding voice is the Rand McNally. The Garmin voice is much better. We definitely like the voice
NAV a lot better on the Garmin. - In a quarter mile, turn left on Panther Creek Road TN 342 - Turn left on Tennessee 342. - In 800 feet, turn left on
Panther Creek Road TN 342. - [Chad] You can hear the Rand McNally is a little bit overbearing and it's wanting to give us directions
every several hundred feet. - In two and a half miles, turn right on West Andrew Johnson Highway. - In 1.5 miles, turn Right
on Mountain Laurel Road. - [Chad] Having been here for two weeks, I know that this is the way we want to go. I'm not sure what it's planin' up here. - In 900 feet, turn right
on Mountain Laurel Road. The way that Mountain Laurel Road-- - Turn left in 500 feet. - [Chad] Why would it
want us to go down there? That's just silly. - It wanted us to go right there. - Oh, no way. Let it recalculate. That by itself shaved
a couple of minutes off the time on the top one. On the Rand. - In a quarter mile, turn right on West Andrew Johnson Highway U.S. 11-y. - Eleveny.
- Eleveny. One of the things we do, we use the GPS for
while we were traveling, is finding our rest area for lunch. - And potty breaks. Rest area.
- Rest area, is it a rest area? I says our first rest area is in 86 miles. That would work. Let's see what the Rand McNally says. It's gonna show us Walmarts and stuff. We don't care about those. It looks like an information center. - 40--
- 48 miles. - I don't know what TIC is. Oh geez, I didn't mean to hit that. - [Chad] Sorry, it was the brakes there. Red lights and all. - [Tara] It's all Walmart stuff. Would the travel center be a rest area? - [Chad] The information
center is probably a break, so we'll see if it matches up. Information center.
- Williamsburg, Kentucky, Williamsburg, Kentucky. I have to add as via for
this one though, right? - [Chad] Yeah. - [Tara] That's another
thing that I find weird. - [Chad] That's a, yeah,
that's a add to start. This one's not as good for-- - [Tara] It's not just as like... user-friendly logic-- - Continue on this road for 22 miles. - [Chad] In the upper right
there where it says Southwest, tap that. Right now, it's North facing. One more time. Now it's in 3D mode and
there's doin' it the same. So hit that restaurant in Williamsburg. We'll see if, I don't think it's the same one. - [Tara] And for this one,
all I have to do is hit go, which I like.
- Yeah, you hit go and then you have to hit--
- Add as next stop. - [Chad] Next stop, yeah. - I like this-- - Going to rest area in Williamsburg. - [Tara] I like that so
much better than add as via. Now you like the way that look right now? Are you okay with that? Or do want me to get rid of that-- - [Chad] You can get rid of that. - Okay, next thing we're going to do is I'm gonna plug in and look for fuel stops. - Yeah, we've got about a third, a little more than a third of a tank. We knew they were going to
be plenty of fuel stops, just like I showed you last night. We'll just see how they
compare, how accurate they are. See if they have the same fuel stops. - Okay. - Up next.
- Up next. - [Chad] This is a list of
all the truck stops coming up. - [Tara] We've got... - [Chad] TA usually
has the best discounts. So you wanna hit TA? - [Tara] And that's 59 miles away. That'd be all right.
- That'd be perfect. - [Tara] You hit go. - Going to Travel Centers of America on Howard Baker Highway-- (both GPS voice NAV overlapping) - [Tara] Now I'm going to do this one. I'm gonna hit this. - Goal setters. - Hold on, I gotta put glasses on. 'Cause I can't read it. That is another thing too, is the Rand McNally's smaller, so it's harder for me to see. - Push yeah. There's the TA, 42 miles, so it looks like it's got the same one. - Add as via?
- Add as via. And then just say add to start, I guess. - [Tara] See what happens. - Continue on this road for 15 miles. - [Tara] They both have the same exit now. All right, we're gonna see how it does. Most travel days aren't like this. This is command central today. It looks a little more cluttered. - [Chad] This was a pain to set up, guys. You notice I have bumpers here
so they don't bounce around. - [Tara] Yeah, because it was so bumpy. You've got the GoPro. - To record this.
- Record this. Of course we've got phone, the backup cam, still got the TPMS going of course. And--
- Bumps. - [Tara] jump, bumps. - [Chad] It's part of my job, it's part of my job too. - Oh, I bet the pantry door just opened. It's part of my job too, when she's editing is to
warn her of bumps coming up. I just sit here and drive and go, "Bump!" - Yeah, usually I--
- Bump. - Usually I am just sitting
here editing away and that's how I pass my time on travel day. - [Chad] I like how the Garmin showing me a little more
of my route up to the turn, whereas this just kind of
goes off into who knows what. - I know something that
I'm going to talk about, since this is a travel day video. And we stress it quite often. Whenever people ask this questions about what's the best RV for them to get? Is accessibility with the slides in on travel days, is super important, especially now with COVID and I wasn't a fan of stopping at rest stops or using truck stop
bathrooms in the first place. But now, especially, having access to our own toilet is absolutely essential for us. We're very lucky that our
RV with the slides in, we can access the bathroom. The refrigerator, woo
hoo, got to get snacks and the bedroom if we
wanted to take a nap. I highly suggest if
you're shopping for RVs, check the accessibility with the slides. - In one and three quarter miles, take exit 141 on the right
to Tennessee 63 West. Then take the first left. Turn left on Howard Baker Highway. - In 500 feet turn left on
Howard Baker Highway TN 63 and then approaching
destination on the left side. - Yeah, TA's to the left.
- In 700 feet. - [Rand McNally GPS] Approaching
destination in 600 feet, on the left side. (upbeat music) - [Chad] A little busy. Which one do we pay? - [Tara] Let's see. I would think that that little shorty right there in the middle,
but we just don't know, do we? - [Chad] That's gonna be our gamble. We're gonna try that guy right there. Ooh, look, is he pulling forward? I think we have a winner. - We picked a winner.
(cheering) Question is, are we gonna pull up here after you're done filling so we can pee? - Well, you know, there's lots of sites and lots of spots where I think we just
go find a spot to pee. - That was my question. - Yeah.
- Okay. - Oh, I thought you
just meant pull forward. - [Tara] No, I meant up there, somewhere. - [Chad] truck stop tip, gloves. - Absolutely. This is the time of the travel
day where Daisy freaks out. Down, down. Down. Hey. Nope. You're all right. You gonna go to the right?
- Looking around. - I don't think we were recording when Chad said he checked the depth, we didn't need any today, right? - We don't.
- We didn't need it today. - [Rand McNally GPS] Please
drive to highlighted route. - It said reserved.
- Cut through here. No, it's not on this side, but the other side, it's not... - It's quite sloped, so I don't know how that'll do with the tanks and stuff. - Yeah, we can back into
one of these I guess. One of the things we always
do when we stop for fuel, is I will walk around, check the axles, check the hangers, check the tires, just kind of look at everything. I'll also check Lucille to make sure she's still
strapped down good. (easy listening music) Here's something we
don't want to run over. We're gonna pick this up so somebody doesn't run over this. (easy listening music) Everything looks good. - [Tara] All right. Do you want to lock the door?
- Yeah. I just walk around the truck, I just look at everything and make sure everything looks normal. ♪ I don't care where I'm goin' baby ♪ ♪ As long as I'm goin' there with you ♪ - Let's get going, I'm hungry. - It looks like both of
these are already set for our next stop. - [Tara] This guy's got a super ego. (laughs)
Super ego! ♪ Like a rollin' stone ♪ This is not the truck entrance, feller. It's one more over. You're going the wrong way. - It's down there, dude. - Down there. He's gonna go anyhow. ♪ Gonna getchu where you goin' baby ♪ ♪ You're gonna getchu
where you need to go ♪ - [Garmin GPS] Continue on I-75. - 22 miles and rest stop. Lunch break. We all get to stretch our legs, fill our bellies. But in the meantime, I need snacks. - Yay, snacks. - Snack bag! - In one and three
quarter miles, keep right. - In 1.5 miles, keep to the
right on connecting road. - [Chad] Welcome to Kentucky. - [Rand McNally GPS] Crossing border. Entering Kentucky. - Rest area closed.
- Truck parking only. - [Chad] Okay, that's good. That's fine. Oh, that's probably just
the bathrooms and stuff. ♪ The road where I belong ♪ (easy listening music) Nice and level. Are you ready? - I think she's just excited--
- Come on. - To not be in the house. - Oh, there you go. Good jump! (vocalizing) - The door's open, but
it's not in the way. - Oh yes. The entry door is often
open when we make a stop. - Yeah. And typically what we do on a travel day when we stop for lunch, is we lock this slide out over here. I'll show you where those knobs are. We'll lock that slide
out and we'll only put our main slide out.
- Right. - That allows us to get back and forth. - Can still get to the microwave. - Get to the microwave. - To warm up the soup. - Yeah, I'll show you how I do that. Really simple. Right inside here. Up here. I know this side is the passenger side and this side is the driver's side. So I'm gonna close this
valve here all the way. And now when we operate our main slides, only this slide will come out. - I'm gonna go check and make sure that there's
nothing that fell out of the attic. And make sure nothing came
out of the pantry that-- Oh, Daisy's food.
- Daisy's? - Oh, and parsley. On the floor. Not bad. It could have been a lot worse. - So we're clear on this side?
- We're clear. No, no, you can't have it.
- Where's the dog? - You cannot have it. - [Chad] All right, we'll
finish bringing this out. - It's a good thing I got
the vacuum right there. I can just vacuum it right up. All right! Daisy's gotta have a clean
area to eat her lunch. Do you want to turn on the water pump? - Water pump. Why? - [Tara] So that we
can use the facilities. It's funny that our black
tanks and gray tanks say full when they're not. - Well I emptied them, but not like 100% 'cause we had people waiting for us. I got like 90% of it out. The other thing that we
do when we stop for lunch, is I start the generator up. This is good in the summer,
'cause we can turn on the ACs, but you can see we're down to 41% battery because we run the fridge on our inverter while we travel versus propane. Our method now is just
to turn the generator on when we stop for lunch, charge the batteries up
and then go on our way. - That's it.
- That's it. Generator is started.
- Time for me to warm up lunch. Let me know when I'm okay
to start the microwave. Because the generator running is what allows me to be able
to run the microwave, right? - [Chad] There it goes. I'll set this to 45 Amps because that's what our generator can do. You are now free to commence microwaving. - Sweet! - Lunch is wrapped up. Delicious. Little bit of rest. Now, you can see that our
batteries are about 63% - Want me to hold that? So we can go ahead and
shut down the gennie. Inverter kicks in and we're
pulling about 50 Amps. Let this number settle here, but we'll probably have a good four to five hours left of juice at that pull rate, which is plenty to get to our next stop. And that's all we need. Go ahead and turn off all the lights. - [Tara] Turn off water pump. I turned on the water for just a second. Just to let a little bit of pressure out after turning off the pump 4.5, 4.4 Good to go.
- Sweet. (easy listening music) - All done with lunch. And before we hit the road, we wanted to talk to you
about a couple of key points that we found are the
big differences for us in the two GPSs. One that you've probably already noticed, is that one is bigger than the other. And so the Garmin is
actually an eight inch screen versus the Rand McNally,
which is on the top, which is a seven inch screen. The display is much bigger, easier to see. - Yeah, that's obviously a big
differentiator all by itself. I also liked the maps and
display better on the Garmin. They're both good, but I
think I prefer the Garmin. It shows hills and mountains and it tends to zoom out when
you've got a long distance to your next location or next turn. - Daisy really likes your elbow. - Daisy, my elbow's clean, thank you. - Oh, good job. - The other big difference that I see is the voice navigation. I've never been a big fan of
voice turn by turn navigation, but the Garmin is really pleasant. - In one and three quarter miles, take exit 141 on the right
to Tennessee 63 West. Then take the first left. - In 1.5 miles, take TN-63 West Oneida. - [Tara] And it's not
too much of it either because there are sometimes where it just makes a little
beeping noises or dings when the speed limit changes
or a turn is approaching, whereas the Rand McNally
talks to you the entire time. - Yeah, and I'm sure there
are settings for that. There are things and settings and details where you could go into on both these GPSs that we're not going to
because we don't use them. We don't care about that stuff. - We really just use it for the navigation and the RV specific GPS. - Yeah. Another difference between
these two is the Rand McNally does have a dash cam built into it. So if you don't already have a dash cam, that might be a plus for you. The Garmin does not. We run a separate dash
cam that's in our truck, 24/7 that's its function is a dash cam. - So we don't know what the
dash cam feature is like on the Rand McNally. We've never used it. And then the magnets, you
prefer the Garmin better 'cause it's smaller - Yeah. Both of these have magnetic mounts, which is really nice because you can situate
the mount in your vehicle, but still take the thing out if you don't want to have
it sitting on your dash in the heat, tempting
thieves, things like that. - Right. - The mounts, however, are
a little bit different. The Garmin mount seems to
be a little bit firmer. - [Tara] And smaller, which is nice. - [Chad] Yeah, it's a tiny little square. It doesn't look like a big
round thing like Dr. Theopolis, If you're a Buck Rogers
fan from the 1980s TV show. - Well you're Captain buck Rogers, and according to your ship's
log, you left earth in 1987. - That much I know. Tell me what I don't know. - When I first tried to install these, I installed them sort of
free floating in the window and the Garmin is pretty solid. Whereas the Rand McNally seems
to want to shake all over. So I think the mount
itself is not as firm. - Daisy's digging her hole right now. - You also might want to
ask how I have this mounted in our Ford with a little dip thing there. I had to build a little thing, a little piece of two-by-eight, and then I cut it to square and then I put some plexiglass
on it and I painted it. - He MacGyver'd it, basically. - Sometimes you gotta be
able to rig things up. Because I wanted it
mounted right where it is, 'cause it's out of sight, out of the way. It's not impeding the sight to the road or anything like that. So that's good. - [Tara] We got 58 miles to go. And we are gonna look
for one last rest stop to use the facilities before
we get to the RV park. - Yeah, it's always best to
be able to pull your RV in and kinda get set up without
having to pee really bad. - Yeah! (laughs) Yeah. So I'm gonna do that now. - [Chad] So it'll be good. Oh, 52 miles? - [Tara] Yeah, it'll be right before. It's in Georgetown. - [Chad] Right before, yeah. So that's 52 miles. - Going to rest area in
Georgetown, Kentucky. Continue on-- - [Tara] Oh, can't reach. I don't like that it's got
all the Walmarts in there. It's annoying. - [Chad] Check to make
sure it's the northbound. The very bottom one. It says northbound, NB. - [Tara] I don't know how you see that. I gotta put my glasses on. And then you gotta do
that stupid thing there. - [Chad] Add to start, yeah. It's not real intuitive.
- No. - [Chad] The Rand McNally,
as far as adding on-- - [Rand McNally GPS] Continue
on this route for 42 miles. - All right, we're all set. (mellow music) - [Garmin GPS] In one quarter mile, arrive at rest area on the right. ♪ You're always on my mind ♪ ♪ All the time ♪ ♪ Don't you know ♪ - [Rand McNally GPS] In
three quarters of a mile, turn right on Rogers Gap Road. - In one half mile, arrive
at Whispering Hills RV Park on the right. ♪ All the time ♪ (easy listening music) - [Rand McNally GPS] Arriving
at the Whispering Hills RV Park on the right. - I think it's a premium
pull-through if I remember right. Yay, you're still open. As usual... - We have packages waiting for us. We have five, actually. I already loaded three in the back here. - [Tara] That's because the last place didn't let us have delivery, so we had them waitin' for us. Holy moly, it's cold Kentucky! (laughing) I'm glad we're only here for a few days. I'm sure it's not gonna get any warmer where we're going next. - You excited? You happy we're home? - We're home. - So I think you can
kind of tell, honestly, they're both good RV GPSs. And that's the key, is they're RV GPSs. You put in your height and your weight and your propane and all that stuff, and it routes you accordingly. Of particular importance is the height. - Def. Definitely! I think that for us, there are a few advantages
that we prefer with the Garmin, over the Rand McNally. And also because Eric
and Tammy at Techno RV, they prefer that one as well. And there was an issue I think, with the server customer service or something with Rand McNally. - Yeah, there was a reason
they dropped Rand McNally. And quite honestly, you can go directly to
Eric and Tammy at Techno RV for support on products they sell. - We trust them. We believe in what they say. And I'd rather use something and tell you guys to use
something that they recommend. - Yeah, that's our new favorite
pick is the Garmin 890. But honestly they're both great. If you don't have one, get the Garmin. If you've already gotten the
Rand McNally, you're fine too. Don't go out and don't go
chuck it or give it away. - Yeah, no. No, no, no.
- It's still a very good one. - No, that is travel day done for us. Now you can tell that the
sun's starting to go down and we still have a lot
of setting up to do, so we are gonna go. And Chad's the lucky guy that
gets to set up in this cold. - Hey, we've had no sewer for two weeks. I'm happy to hook up sewer. - I'm so happy. (laughing) I'm so happy. So let's get set up so we can
get toasty warm in there and I can go lay down. _ [Chad] See you. - [Chad] The Garmin, I say Garmin and the thing
wants to search for me. Cancel, Garmin.
(GPS dings) Cancel. - Just be worried about the road. - [Chad] I am. - That last little bit. I know it was smudgy. I didn't look, clean off the lens. Shame, shame on me. - We're still using the Garmin eight-- I'm sorry. I've reached out--
(sighs) The Garmin-- - Just say the whole thing over. - I said "Garmin" so now the
Garmin wants to talk to me. - I know. That's fine. - Cancel, Garmin. Cancel. - [Tara] You didn't put the slide in. (laughing) - I'm like, I'm thinkin'
"Something doesn't look right." - [Tara] Caught on camera! There's that. - [Chad] Nope. A note to Garmin. - Note to Garmin.
- Oh, sorry. Now the Garmin's listening to me. Cancel, Garmin. Cancel.
(laughs) - Oh, geez. You don't need to be
flyin' by us like that in a Motor Coach Elite. - Things we liked the
best about the Garmin are? Do you remember what they are? - You said Garmin and now it's listening. Cancel, Garmin. Cancel. - Bye.
