oh, some cab drivers are good for that which reminds me. i've also had cab drivers try to take longer routes than the way i ask them to take thinking i won't know any better just because i can't see. one day i told the cab driver to take me to the university a certain way, but he went off the route and when i called him on it, he flat out told me i didn't know what i was talking about because i couldn't see. ever since getting my braillenote gps, that no longer happens. i can simply type in a route and follow along reading the braille display and know *exactly* where each turn is being made.
speaking of the braillenote typeingtornado, i thought of another advantage to the perkins keyboard. if god forbid your braillenote does get stolen, a sighted person won't have a clue how to use it unless they know braille. if you have the QWERTY keyboard, it's pretty simple to learn how to navigate the menus, but if you have the perkins keyboard, they must know braille *and* how to navigate the menus using braille input and/or the thumb keys.
