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Category Archives: Travel
Road safety
One of the little modifications to your daily routine in a northern winter is two stops at every stop sign: one before the road to check for cars, and one before the sidewalk to check for snowmobiles.
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Western Canadian Bus Routes
Greydog phone tree: “Using your telephone key pad, please enter the first four letters of your destination city.” Ditch: “3678″ Greydog: “For Fort Assiniboine, press 1 … Fort Macleod, press 2 … Fort McMurray, press 3 … Fort Nelson, press 4 … Fort … Continue reading
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You know you’ve had a good holiday…
…when you pick up the phone to call the station for your schedule, and can’t remember the number.
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I know I’ve got it here somewhere…
Got this one from the notorious Russian. Let’s file it under questions you hope a cop will NOT be asking you on your way to a shift you’re about to be late for: “Afternoon. Mind if I see your pilot’s license?”
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Mr. Ditch goes to Washington: Chapter 4
The decidedly gray nature of my work status that summer after grad began to make me uneasy, and I wondered how to explain to Cait that I’d be missing her grad, and probably her wedding as well. I liberated all the charm at … Continue reading
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Mr. Ditch goes to Washington: Chapter 3
There was nothing for it: I booked myself onto the last flight of the day to leave town, at a price that, had I laid out a couple of weeks previously, would have gone a good way toward buying a … Continue reading
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Culture Shock
It’s generally accepted that going from a town of five thousand to a city of five million is a shock to the system. Not that I’ve noticed. On the other hand, going from having no Catholic Friends in town to … Continue reading
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Mr. Ditch goes to Washington: Chapter 2
Having secured a ride back to town for myself and the remains of my car, I began to look for ways to get to Edmonton in 16 hours on no notice. It was looking like hitchhiking when a friend called … Continue reading
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Why bus travellers always look so sketchy
Given ten or twelve hours on the Greydog, godlike Achilles himself would look like a washed up halfwit skid.
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Big City Traffic Reflection
I’ve always been a bit bemused by people who get slighted in traffic and then make it a priority to cut off the offending driver. I do understand the desire for revenge, I’ve just never felt like cutting the guy … Continue reading
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