To The Future!

Monday 9/13/2010 The Canadian countryside is very much like Indiana, corn farms. There are some trees that are changing to their fall colors. No billboards, just road information signs, one to three or four lines to announce the businesses at the next exit. It’s a long haul; we make a stop at Best Buy to purchase a new hard drive. With all the photos we have taken my computer and external hard drive are filling up. During the show we finished the photo paper roll and started taking email address so we could send the guest a digital copy. Great idea but it takes up a lot of memory on the scratch disc and we had to load the emails so we could send them the next time we had Internet access. Well, complications abounded and some emails dropped out, don’t know what happened. The solution was to post pics to Photo Bucket for guests to access. Thank you everyone who donated. Your generosity was fantastic, Montreal donation total, $5,000. Now to exchange Canadian money for American and send the $ to Team Fox. Not so easy, there is a new American law to protect against money laundering.

Oliver’s observations:

Canadian women do not normally take their husband’s last name. Perhaps the husbands don't offer it to them?

We saw no billboards in Canada, at least to Montreal, then from there across two provinces down to Detroit. They do have, however, standardized road signs that display three or four services with standardized symbols and brief text. I’m guessing these are purchased by the businesses that can afford them, because we saw everything from paintball to museums listed.

Apparently, Montreal has an entire underground network of city that is particularly used in the winter, as the weather is so harsh. I am told you can shop, eat, and get from here to there without ever seeing the surface or going outside. We never got to explore it due to our tight schedule. They have a small replica of Notre Dame from Paris, and I noticed a subway entrance copied from an art nouveu styled one in Paris. They love Paris here!

And the same with French fries. They love them frites. Big bowls of them served. And they dump curds on top along with chicken gravy and call it a Poudine. Terry is not a big fan of that dish.

Saw a guy in McDonalds sitting by himself playing chess. He had a shaved head and wore pink bunny ears. He wasn't very sociable. -Go figure.

Grasshopper in the car suddenly sprang out from hiding and terrorized the cockpit crew. We pulled off and released him, unharmed. We recovered shortly thereafter.

Took a coin op bath with the car. Raised the gullwing door to type in the coupon code, and when the entrance opened and green light lit, I quickly moved forward, lowering my door, -and immediately got sprayed by the blasting water jets through my little open window. I’d like to write that we laughed and made little soap mustaches on each other, but the moment was not that funny. Now, I can laugh. :) But I was soaked for an hour afterwards. . . .

Our drive westward on Monday ends in Michigan City, MI. We order pizza, Oli works on the computer and I fall asleep to Steven Cobert. I was laughing in my sleep.