Batteries are drained: mental along with phone and music. I bought the wrong batteries for my iPod range extender, but may be able to correct the error when in Winnipeg.
I am meeting my cousin there, which should permit a shower, decent food, and mental refreshment.
I have been looking places up on Wikipedia as I pass through. You don’t learn much about them in a few minutes through a bus window. Bus stations, I can report, are highly uniform in content and appearance.
Author: Milan
In the spring of 2005, I graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in International Relations and a general focus in the area of environmental politics. In the fall of 2005, I began reading for an M.Phil in IR at Wadham College, Oxford.
Outside school, I am very interested in photography, writing, and the outdoors. I am writing this blog to keep in touch with friends and family around the world, provide a more personal view of graduate student life in Oxford, and pass on some lessons I've learned here.
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It is exciting to follow your progress. You have come a long way! I am so glad that you will have a longer break in Winnipeg with a visit and a shower. Hope it will recharge your own batteries. How are you feling physically up to now?
Over 24 hours on the road and still in the same province. Ontario is such a large province.
Have you been able to sleep? to read? to meet people?
How is the bus trip or the bus trip experience different from what you expected it to be?
OI also found that learning about small places through Wikipedia is limiting. There seems to be a pattern of telling about the early formation of the community and providing some of census information and maybe one or two other matters. Often there are not extensive write-ups by community organizations. Winnipeg may have more written about it. Also you may be able to get more general information by checking out the entries about the individual provinces.
I hope you have a chance to shower and mentally recoup for the rest of your journey.
This really gives you incentive to make friends all across Canada!
You have many people waiting at the other end for you, to give you congratulatory hugs and egg nog and drag you up mountains. :)
I´m jealous of your ability to check Wikipedia along the way, I always wish I could do that when I´m travelling.
I am now in Kenora, finally almost out of Ontario. There were no cell towers during the past couple of hours. At least, none Fido phones automatically connect to.
Taking the bus cross country is just like taking it from Ottawa to Toronto over and over again. So far, now special insights and encounters. Just extra time to pass and longer spans without decent food.
The Winnipeg visit looks like it will be a bit rushed and strained for logistical reasons.
a most inspiring journey taken by
a true environmentalist
keep on truckin’ !
Thank you.