As anyone who has spent any time travelling with me will confirm, my navigational skills away from home leave something to be desired. For this reason I usually book the Neverlost navigation option on Hertz rentals. This option is only available on mid size cars and up.

On my forthcoming trip to LA I will be travelling alone and probably not running up more than a hundred miles. It seemed a little excessive to book anything larger than a compact, and in any case the Focus is nicer to drive than a Taurus or other boat-like gas guzzler. On the down side, no navigation!

So, long story short (erm, well, short-ish), I need to connect a GPS unit which has a serial port to a laptop which does not. A USB to RS232 serial adapter is the answer, but I don't have one, can't find one locally, and I fly out on Monday morning. Does anyone know of a store near LAX where I might be able to pick one up?

Thanks

Rob

Your best bets are either Radio Shack, which is a chain of small electronics/computer stores that have branches on every fricking corner here in L.A. including one almost on the airport property itself, CompUSA, which a chain of slightly larger computer stores but doesn't have one particularly close to the airport, or, your best bet, Fry's , a chain of huge computer superstores that does just happen to have one of its 5 areas stores really close to L.A.X. If you can't find it there, you can't find it anywhere.

Edited, Mapquest was giving wrong directions

Best Buy also carries them, and they're pretty much everywhere these days. They're frequently in the PDA section as people used to use them to hook up palm cradles to laptops.

Matthew

Thanks, that Frys looks perfect. For some reason I thought Anaheim was the nearest store in LA - I guess I drove a bit further than necessary last time I was there!

Rob