It’s pretty common. Navigating, especially for a motorcyclist, isn’t always easy when he’s going somewhere he hasn’t been before. It’s not like a car where he can ask his passenger to navigate for him.

Of course he can always stop, get off his bike, pull out the map and have a look. Time consuming but works well, till it’s raining.

Have you considered a gift for him to help with all this? How about a motorcycle GPS system?

They aren’t cheap, but for well under $1000 he can have a motorcycle GPS that is specifically designed for motorcycle use. It comes with a mount specifically designed for mounting on a bike, and is fully waterproof and vibration resistant.

It will both show him, and tell him, via wireless bluetooth technology direct to an earpiece in his helmet, exactly where he is going and how to get to where he wants to go. Every step of the way it will give him exact directions so he knows where and when to turn.

Preplan a route and input it into his GPS and it will take him there, or navigate on the fly. Want to go via fuel stops, or accomodation stops, or via various points of interest along the way? It will do it all using preloaded maps of the whole of North America.

Perhaps he’d like to listen to some music along the way? Load it into his motorcycle GPS unit and he can listen all he likes. Maybe take some photos and show them to his friends. His GPS will do that too.

Download it all to his computer at the end of the ride and keep the route for the next time, or send it to friends to review or keep, it’s all possible, and much much more.

And if he’s a car driver as well he can mount his GPS unit in his car and use it the same way when he’s driving.

Motorcycle GPS has come a long way since the days when you got a hand held unit that told you a latitude and a longitude. Modern mapping software is highly effective, and when combined with Global Positioning System Technology, becomes the best and most sought after navigation system in history.

GPS motorcycle navigators like the Garmin Zumo 550 or the Tom Tom Rider 2 are high quality modern GPS navigation systems that will take the headaches out of navigation and turn it into a delight. No more standing beside the road in the rain looking at a soggy map.

They aren’t cheap, but if your man rides a motorbike, and your able to come at a gift in the $500 to $800 range, he’ll love a motorcycle GPS system.

Watch the video then read about it.

This is one of the best luxury and adventure gifts that I have seen and I want it as much as I want to do the “Be A Fighter Pilot For A Day”

He gets to drive six of the most coveted cars on the planet: Ferrari F430, Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder, Lamborghini Murcielago, Bentley Continental GTC, Aston Martin Vanquish, Porsche 997 GT3.

It’s from Signature Days, one of my absolute favorite adventure and unique luxury gift sites, and it’s expensive. Well I suppose it’s all relative, so I should say it’s expensive for me. But I want it anyway.

So if you’re feeling wealthy today and your man is the type who would sell his mother for a gift like this then buy it for him. If you can’t afford it then don’t tell him about it.

It’s a wonderful and quite unique [tag-tec]luxury gift[/tag-tec] for a man, I haven’t seen it before.

And why not read some of my Christmas gift suggestions too, as Christmas is coming.

I was watching a documentary the other day about the Hornet, and they showed some extraordinary footage of some simulated combat, extremely fast and extremely low. I was so jealous that some men get to do these things, and get paid for it, and it isn’t me.

I know there are some extraordinary adventure gifts available, and headed on over to Signature Days, one of my favorite adventure gift companies, to have a look.

There it was. Be a fighter pilot for a day and experience simulated combat. Wow would I like to do that.

It’s not cheap, but if he’s the type to enjoy it and you’re the type to afford it then it’s a gift he’ll never forget.

There’s some photos of it to give you the idea. Not every man would kill to do this, but I would, and many others would. This is an [tag-tec]adventure gift[/tag-tec] at it’s finest
Here’s a short excerpt from their website. Guys, read it and weep.

“After strapping into the front cockpit of the Extra 300L, pre-flight safety checks are completed prior to launch. Within minutes you’re airborne over the Arizona desert and ready for adventure! You’ll fly in close formation with your competitor at over 250 miles per hour to witness various formation positions and then split for individual “warm-up” air combat maneuvers to familiarize yourself with the air combat aircraft and how it handles. Now you’re ready for action.

We have two air-to-air combat mission profiles in our Mesa, Arizona USA location; the Intro to Air Combat Maneuvering and the Advanced Air Combat Mission.”

It’s a gift of a Zero-G ride.

Now it’s perfectly possible for anyone to get a Zero-G experience in the same way as they train the astronauts. At a price.

If you’d like to read my article you can do so here.

I’ve found a video showing what it’s like, so you can actually see what a Zero-G ride is all about. Looks like a heap of fun to me, shame I can’t afford it, I’d just love to give it a go.

Here’s the video, it really gets my juices gong, I’d just LOVE to do this.

We didn’t do it for the money, the money was terrible and we bore a lot of the costs ourselves. We did it for the experience, and for the opportunity to be a part of something that helped out some other people less fortunate than ourselves.

And it was wonderful. Despite the fact that financially we would have been far better off staying at home I wouldn’t have missed it for the world. To hell with the money sometimes.

So I’m going to suggest a very unusual adventure and luxury gift for a man here, one that can often cost quite a deal of money, but one which will give him the experience of a lifetime and help out along the way. And if you, and your family if you have kids, go along, you will all be a part of it.

It’s an adventure holiday with a difference. A holiday in a place you may never have thought of, doing something you would probably never have heard of.

It’s an Eco Holiday. An adventure holiday for a man who is extremely aware of his impact on his environment and would like to do something about it. A holiday that gives back – to the environment.

Or for that matter just a fantastic holiday idea with a difference.

Volunteering abroad is not new. But there are so many people who don’t know it exists. It does, and a growing number of people are taking advantage of overseas volunteer holidays. And now it’s possible to add an Ecological aspect to a volunteer holiday abroad.

How does it work? You organise a holiday/volunteer project through a company such as Earthwatch. You visit their website and pick out something that appeals to you.

There is a massive range of choices. Here’s just 2 of the current choices. Volunteer in Mexico helping scientists working with endangered black turtles or volunteer in Queensland, Australia measuring the distribution of tropical animals in a World Heritage area to assess the impact of climate change on the animals.

There is so much more. The choices are huge, the range of projects stunning. This could be his, and your, holiday of a lifetime.

Lets look at one. One that really appeals to me. Spend 12 days on board a classic wooden Norwegian sailing ship counting dolphins and whales along the coast of Spain. You are contributing to scientific work being done on behalf of the European Commission to create sustainable whale and dolphin management plans to protect their habitat.

You may be filming, identifying and tracking them.

And in your time off, (you do get time off) you can relax in one of the coastal spanish villages you get to visit.

It sounds absolutely wonderful, a real holiday with a difference, because he, and you, are making a difference yourselves. It’s an adventure gift with a difference.

Here’s a video from Earthwatch for you to watch about a whale project in Baja.

And here’s another Earthwatch video about volunteering in Madagascar. It has my mouth watering.

And here’s a page from Earthwatch written by one of it’s volunteers who spent time in Thailand telling you all about the experiences he had.

Now none of this is cheap. You have to pay, and if you’re interested visit the Earthwatch institute website to read all about the projects, and the costs. But then any holiday abroad is expensive,isn’t it?

This is a luxury and [tag-tec]adventure gift for a man[/tag-tec]. Sometimes the luxury refers to the experience rather than the accomodation. But to me a holiday like this, even if it’s as rough as it gets, is also about as luxury as it gets. And quite some adventure.

And you can read about some other adventure gift ideas of mine too.