Back From Canada
Last Saturday, my wife and I drove to Winnipeg, Canada to celebrate our first wedding anniversary. Why Winnipeg? We wanted to go somewhere new and we wanted to drive. Ashley and I hadn’t been to Canada, so once the idea popped up during brainstorming it stuck. We checked the map, and Winnipeg seemed to be the biggest Canadian city that was within driving distance from Kansas City (kinda, it’s still 11-12 hours away). We had a lot of fun, and I have a few comments to make about the trip.
- I was worried that the drive would be horrible, but it went really well. Between talking with my wife, Peikoff podcasts (I had to catch up on the 2nd through the 14th), OPAR audio book on MP3, and radio, I was able to keep my mind running all the way there and back. It went so well, I’d even be up for making a big drive like that again.
- We rented a car, of course. I’d hate to be stuck hours away from home with a broken-down car. We put 1,700 on a Mazda 3, which is a neat little car… except that there’s hardly any sound buffering between the outside and inside. When we got on the highway, we practically had to yell to hear each other over the highway.
- The Canadian border patrol was very nice to us. For some reason they were stopping everybody from entering the country at our port, and Ashley and I were waiting in a room with 40-50 people who also wanted to enter Canada. We thought we’d be stuck for hours, but an officer from the back came out, picked us out of the crowd, asked us a few questions, and said we could leave. We looked like everybody else waiting in line, so I have to assume that they let us out because they knew we drove so far?
- Canada looks a lot like America. If I took a random picture of the views we saw from Canada and compared it to random views from Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, South Dakota, and North Dakota, I think it would be very hard to tell the difference.
- I wonder how people in line behind me thought as they waited for me to figure out what each coin was worth when I tried to pay for stuff.
I like the idea of using $1 coins instead of a bill, but the $2 coin really threw me off. - I joked with my wife that all I really wanted to hear was someone say “eh” at the end of a sentence to me, and I got it!
There’s other stuff to share, but that’s all I have right now. Tomorrow…. back to work!
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