bought the nuvi500, too...
I've got the nuvi500, too. I bought mine last winter from REI.com. I paid around $270 for it. I wish I had seen this thread before I bought the Garmin Northeast inland lakes map for about $80 from ebay. $10 would have been better and $80...oh well...
But, I am pleased with the unit itself. The "bread crumbs" feature is really nice to have. A couple weeks ago, I took some friends back to the island home that they were renting around dusk. By the time I headed back home it was fully dark, and the bread crumbs allowed me to trace back along the same route that I had followed going in. While not my primary means of navigation, the little unit did help make it easy to find the path back.
All in all, I have no issues with the 500. My wife uses it in her car like a "normal" GPS in the off season. The only feature that my unit doesn't have is the text to speech feature that speaks street names, though I may have read somewhere that the latest 500 version now has this feature.
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