There are few relationships that go as deep as those between America and Canada. Which is why I highly recommend if you’re going to be backpacking Canada, you’d be a fool not to consider backpacking America as well. I stumbled upon this video yesterday after spending a full day working through another weekend (Who does that!?). The beautiful scenery and strong words remind me that us Canadians, we’re pretty okay people. And we’re probably alright neighbours too. We can be a little sensitive at times, a little loud at others. Sure, we apologize often, and clearly have a need for everyone to like us. But whatever, we are who we are.

So allow the tire pumping to begin!