Garmin Nuvi 1350 Lost Maps

Today, my father's brand new (1 week old) Garmin Nuvi 1350 lost all its internals. This included the internal maps, voices, keyboards, vehicles, favorites, etc...

This is what I did to fix it:

1. The following will make sure you can communicate with the Nuvi device directly from the garmin.com website and also the Nuvi software is up to date:

• Registered Nuvi device on garmin.com website
• Installed Garmin Communicator Plugin (worked well in Firefox 8, but not in Chrome 16)
• Installed software update on the Nuvi device

2. Install the maps:

• Download and install Garmin Map Updater from garmin.com
• Run the map updater and through it, download, prepare and install the maps you are entitled to on the Nuvi device

3. Install missing voices, vehicles, keyboards:

• Download and install Garmin Web Updater from the garmin.com website
• Run the Web Updater and select all keyboards, vehicles, voices, updates, FM traffic databases, etc that you need

Napa Valley Motocycle Day Trip

This little tour takes you from San Francisco South Bay, where I happen to live, to the famous California Napa Valley and back, through roads such as Suisun Valley Rd, Wooden Valley Rd, Sage Canyon Rd, Chiles Pope Valley Rd, Butts Canyon Rd, Trinity Rd.

All in all is about 300 miles (480km) and I did it in about 8 hours at relative good pace with many stops. Most of the road is through the mountains (except highway bits) and includes large sweepers, so difficulty is intermediate. The last part on Trinity Rd is pretty goaty and it gives you a workout both physically and mentally, so difficulty is advanced.


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Santa Cruz Mountains Motorcycle Day Trip

This is a short and sweet motorcycle mini-tour around California Santa Cruz Mountains. It's less than 4 hours (Google Maps estimate), but in fact in can be done in about 3 hours. The roads are hand-picked for their turns and twisties, so difficulty is intermediate-hard. Length: about 120 miles (200km).


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• Bear Creek Rd
• Jamison Creek Rd
• Smith Grade Rd
• Bonny Doon Rd
• Swanton Rd
• Cloverdale Rd
• Pescadero Creek Rd
• Alpine Rd
• Page Mill Rd
• Moody Rd

Southern California 2 Day Mini-Tour

Day 1: Santa Clara - Pismo Beach (~450 miles / 11 hours)


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Day 2: Pismo Beach - Santa Clara (~260 miles / 8 hours)

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Places to see. Roads to ride.

1. Rocky Mountain National Park.
2. Devil's Tower National Park.
3. Sturgis.

Pashnit Grand Tour - Day 2

http://www.pashnittours.com/tour_4.html

Approx: 300 miles, 11 hours

Part 1: Cambria - Forest Route 23S16

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Part 2: Forest Route 23S16 - Three Rivers

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Overnight in Comfort Inn, 40820 Sierra Drive, Three Rivers, CA. 559-561-9000

VMware (Player) Port Forwarding

As I said in one of my previous posts, I _love_ VMWare Player (much more than its Workstation brother). There is no surprise, I want to have some neat port forwarding (from HOST machine to VMWare).

I found the following information on http://asunix.tufts.edu/howto/vmware/portforwardingWin7:

Step 0: If using VMware Workstation, continue to Step 1. However, if using VMware Player, you need to extract the `Virtual Network Editor' from the installer via the following command:

$> VMware-player-setup.exe /e .\extract

Go into `extract' -> `network' and copy `vmnetcfg' into the VMware Player directory before you use this tool. Once `vmnetcfg' is in the VMware Player folder, you can launch this tool to configure the NAT port forwarding.

Step 1: Open the Virtual Network Editor ( either from Workstation or launch `vmnetcfg' )

Step 2: Choose `VMnet8' from the interface list, change the Subnet IP at the bottom of the panel to `192.168.192.0' then and choose `NAT Settings...' from the VMnet Information panel.

Step 3: Ensure that the Gateway IP is set to `192.168.192.2' and then choose `Add' under the Port Forwarding panel.

Step 4: Fill in the port map information with the following data:

Host Port: 22

Type: TCP

Virtual machine IP address: 192.168.192.100

Virtual machine port: 22

Description: SSH

Step 5: Apply all settings and close out of the Virtual Network Editor.