I had an eTrek vista and it is a great GPS - but it does not have the
option for an external antenna mount which you may want to have
particularly if you use the GPS in the car.
So, I recently upgraded to a Garmin GPS76S. Pretty much the same as the
vista but with a marginally larger display and external antenna jack.

I've use the Roads and recreation software with good results and also
the shareware program EASYGPS.

Todd
'88 Westy

Dan Brideau wrote:

>I have a Garmin eTrex Vista.
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>It is about the size of a large cell phone.
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>It came with maps of everywhere I've been with it so far (New England and Montreal Canada).
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>It has no "turn left at the next light" sort of stuff, but it does have an arrow that will point to your next "way point".
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>It does have a serial connection, witch I have used to make maps of where I've been using 3rd party shareware:
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>http://www.myghia.com/gps/
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>I have an optional handle bar mount, the maps above are of my local town forest bike trails.
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>It's pretty cool, but not fool proof.  If you have a AAA map, and one of these, you would have no excuse for getting lost.
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>Dan Brideau
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>Original Message -----------------------
>I would like to get a GPS for extensive car travel and perhaps some short
>hikes. I don't have a laptop, would like to avoid getting one.
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