camping hiking, computer backpackThis summer is going to be so exciting for us. We are taking a month off and heading to Canada to see that magnificent country and today I found a wonderful tool that will help us navigate with our Garmin GPS when we're camping hiking through Canada. This works with our Garmin GPS unit, the Colorado, and I'm glad I found this online for our computer and Garmin GPS so we can plan our trips around western Canada. Growing up in North Dakota, we went to Manitoba frequently to visit Winnepeg and always enjoyed ourselves immensely. That was before we had learned about camping hiking, otherwise I'm sure our parents would have planned those kinds of vacations for us instead of the hotels and motels that we stayed at. We walked around a lot and enjoyed the architecture of that city.

We are grown up now and enjoy camping hiking as our favorite way to take a vacation. In fact, hiking is our favorite outdoor sport so the prospect of seeing the parks in western Canada on our own two feet is something we are really anticipating. Getting the Topo Canada CD will let us take the next few months to plan our trip so we take advantage of every day we have while we are up there. We know already that we are going to start our trip in New Mexico so we can follow the entire range of the Rockies from start to finish up in Canada. It's going to be quite the trip and we will photo document the entire thing. We are bringing our laptop along and hopefully I won't forget the new computer backpack I bought specially for this trip. I found this topo at All Star Sports Outlet located at http://www.allstarsportsoutlet.com, a site that we buy lots of our outdoor gear from.

We'll spend three to four nights at a stretch camping hiking and the rest of the time in hotels, hostels, or motels so we don't burn ourselves out by experiencing too much of a good thing. We want to have fun, and there are so many interesting points of interest in western Canada. We are looking forward to seeing Banff, Canada, and the national park there. My folks took a trip there many years ago and we still admire the gorgeous scenery they captured on film. We will also see Glacier Park and Jasper, too, so using the Garmin GPS to get around all those places, find lodgings and campgrounds will be easy with our Garmin GPS and laptop computer.

Another big benefit of spending a month in Canada camping hiking through the western part is getting out of the incredibly hot weather in Phoenix in July. The humidity starts to roll in during July and the days are still quite long, so we elected to save up all our vacation time and money and spend it on this adventure, whose memories will undoubtedly last us a lifetime. Camping hiking is one of the best ways to see places because we can get deep into the mountains to see what is invisible from the road.