Hi There,
For thew trip you are looking at I would wait until I was in the USA and buy a Garmin GPS 60CS
If you buy one in the UK you will get the Euro Basemap, if you buy a USA spec you get a Basemap of North, Central and South America - how detailed thes are I am not sure -anyone help there ???
I only know as Im looking at doing the same sort of trip in my Land Rover Alaska - Ushuaia and 60CS would be my first choice.
The 60cs is the latest handheld - third generation I suppose - very good with a much better defined colour screen.
If you are on a bike I would buy a mount from Touratech here before you leave and maybe hard wire in a power supply cable here too.
Here in the UK they go for about £250 (USA Spec), in the USA they are about £220 and you may find one even cheaper.
I have used Silva, Magellan, Lowrance, etc - but Garmin have a good product and customer support wordwide is always excellent in my experience.
Hope this helps,
Cheers
Grif
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Ex RAF Regt, Ex Dragoman, LRE Instructor,
LR 90 300 Tdi Overlander
Suzuki DR650 Overlander
..and Bloody Nice Bloke!
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