The maps apparently leave a lot to be desired. It cannot get us to town from our rural home without telling us to take a road that does not connect to our road. Take Pine Road to Oak Road.....these roads do not connect although they do exist in close proximity. Aside from that the Garmin takes us on strange routes to reach our desination. We tried it out over Thanksgiving traveling between two states. Regardless of which setting we chose, faster or shorter, it kept wanting to take us off the interstate and put us on two-way roads. This might have been shorter but certainly not faster. I like an option my brother has on his Magellan, "Most Use of Freeways". I think Garmin should add this to their options of Shortest Route, Fastest Route & Off Road.

Perfect to travel, very friendly to use. You can track any store, Restaurant or whatever you want to go.

I love my Garmin 680!!! It is very user friendly and we got it at a very reasonable price from an Ebay auction!! My husband bought it for me for Christmas so that we would never be lost again. Also, we would never argue about what is the right direction. We used the Garmin to travel to Tunica MS after Christmas. I programed it for the fastest route. My husband said well we will go to Nashville first [the Garmin recalculated for the rest of the trip]. We arrived 2 hours later than we would have if we had stayed with the Garmin directions!!!
On our return trip I programed the Garmin to go home! We were supposed to arrive home at 6:15 pm but as you might have guessed by now, my husband took a detour because he knew of a shortcut!!! By the time the Garmin did it's recalculation, with the SUPPOSED shortcut we would now arrive home at 6:31 pm!!
Now I will not allow my husband use my Garmin 680 unless he promises to stick with the directions of the Garmin 680!!!
signed a very happy 680 Garmin nuvi owner!!!

I was a bit curious how going the rural two lane route would compare to an interstate route that I had come in on.

I tried the rural route to Midway Airport and it took almost 25 minutes off of the trip. I will now question the rural routing system offered from My GPS unit

The one i have is very hlpful!When I was driving up to Boston during one terrible rush hour with the Nuvi 680, it didn't actually warn me about trouble ahead. I was curious why. The highways were all snarled with "RED" colored traffic, and I combed the route to find that it routed me around the trouble spots right from the start. It still took me a bit to get around on the surface roads, but not nearly as long as sitting in the mess on the interstate. Pretty slick.