What software are you using for Canadian travel?

Roger Van Till
'89 Westy "The Moose Lounge"
'86 GL "Sugaree"
'81 L "CoJack"
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On Aug 30, 2006, at 6:06 PM, TC wrote:

>> In the same vein, my road atlas slides in very nicely between the
>> cushion
>> and swivel mechanism on the passenger side, with about an inch
>> sticking
> out.
>
> All these people with road atlas ... my my use the space under the
> pass seat
> to stash the laptop :)
> I just did 16K KM's Victoria BC to Quebec City PQ & back
> We went with only our Garmin NRoute S/W
> (not a plug for Garmin S/W realy needs work but does function),
> GPS receiver, & laptop no Atlas here any more :)
> (well we do keep out plastic covered map of BC & AB :)
> But I have got to say driving with GPS & routing software realy
> removed the
> stress
> I navigated in thrid world Sask.  tractor trails from 11PM to 3AM to
> the
> Grass Land National park on the border of Sask & Montana with some of
> the
> roads no more
> than gravel tracks with out one wrong turn, and most 'gravel
> intersections'
> w/o
> a sign I never would have been able to do that so easy with an 'Atlas'
> ...
> or hitting the big city & just drving right to the historic point or
> museum
> w/o the usual 5 wrong turns
> and an xtra hr in the car are times of the past
>
> And to be able to book mark waypoints to 'secret' lakes and beaches
> that I may not get back to for years but I can now just share those
> waypoints with friends is realy cool...
>
> which reminds me some one said they would start a memebers secret
> vanagon
> spots
> where was that again we can post simple gps coords ...
>
> end rant
>
> ps. so if your next vanagon upgrade does not include a gps think again
> :)
>