Well, I’ll be darned, Garmin figured out something was wrong. No more “aooounty road” for me. This has been available for three years, apparently.
The Garmin Express application only works in Mac OS 10.7 and up, but I was able to get it through my laptop. The feed to the “Lifetime Map Updater” application was frozen and thinks “2014.30” is still the most recent, but I can’t update because the GPS doesn’t have enough space anyway. I COULD install the memory expansion card, but I’m hesitant to make that integral to the GPS, since its removal would break things. (It’s a heck of a strategy to offer “lifetime updates” when the space required outpaces the space available.)
PS: Posts may be sporadic in the next couple of weeks.