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Conference kaosws::canada

Title:True North Strong & Free
Notice:Introduction in Note 535, For Sale/Wanted in 524
Moderator:POLAR::RICHARDSON
Created:Fri Jun 19 1987
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1040
Total number of notes:13668

864.0. "What a great country for vacationing..." by ANGLIN::PEREZ (Trust, but ALWAYS verify!) Sun Oct 02 1994 12:04

    I am compelled to pay a compliment...  
    
    My wife and I have traveled from Minnesota to Canada on vacation three
    times in the last 4 years.  
    
    We originally went through New Brunswick to Nova Scotia for 3 weeks,
    explored as much of NS and PEI as much as possible, and just ambled
    around in our camper, enjoying the scenery and emptiness.  Empty
    campgrounds, wonderful scenery, fabulous people (although several of
    them did seem to have a certain antipathy toward Mr. Mulrooney...)
    
    This year we just got back from doing the Glacier, Waterton,
    Kananaskis, Banff, Yoho, Kootenai, Lake Louise, Jasper trip.  I'm
    convinced that the Icefields Parkway and Jasper is one of the best
    places on earth!  Once again, we just ambled around in the camper,
    staying various places to wander trails and got for the occasional bike
    ride.  
    
    Since we don't have to worry about school we've been vacationing in the
    fall, which provides us with warm days, cool nights, A BIG REDUCTION IN
    OTHER TOURISTS, and sunny weather (this year we didn't hit a single
    cloud or rainy day until we were driving home - when it doesn't matter
    anyway if it rains!).
    
    The campgrounds were universally clean, pleasant, and uncrowded.  When
    staying in a camper rather than a tent it is sometimes difficult to
    find a really nice, shady, quiet, space away from the neighbors.  We
    had no problems, even in Banff and Jasper where there were a few more
    people...  
    
    I always HATE leaving the area to come back home!
    
    On what may seem an odd note...  I am in love with Valerie Pringle!  A
    couple mornings when we goofed off and ate breakfast (and HAD TV) we
    watched Canada AM.  Ignoring the guy with the helmet hair, I found it
    to be a great change from the perfect, blow-dried, talking head, bimbos
    down here with their forced friendliness toward their "co-anchors"! 
    Can we borrow her for a while down here?  It would SURE improve OUR
    morning television!  
    
    Are there any jobs in Calgary or Edmonton for a prospective transplant
    from Minnesota?
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864.1POLAR::RICHARDSONThe Toad Elevating MomentMon Oct 03 1994 13:245
    I agree, Valerie Pringle is a babe with a great personality!
    
    Glad you had a great time!
    
    Glenn
864.2Better yet are Pam and Peter, and Wendy...POLAR::RUSHTONMon Oct 03 1994 14:413
    
    
    	Pringle is definitely a `chip' off the old block.
864.3KAORSC::M_MORINA dead mean with the most toys is still a dead man.Mon Oct 03 1994 14:595
    Pam?  Depends how old you are.
    
    Wendy Mesley yes.  Isn't she separated from Peter now?
    
    /Mario
864.4POLAR::RICHARDSONThe Toad Elevating MomentMon Oct 03 1994 15:243
    She's divorced from Peter. gaa gaa.
    
    Glenn
864.5KAOP45::ROBILLARDMon Oct 03 1994 16:553
OHHHHHHHghghgh, Vaaaaaaaaleeeeeeriie. ( It's my best Homer imitation.) :^)))

Ben
864.6POLAR::RICHARDSONThe Toad Elevating MomentMon Oct 03 1994 17:221
    This troubles me.
864.7And the weather is better there too!ANGLIN::PEREZTrust, but ALWAYS verify!Tue Oct 04 1994 14:1823
    >   <<< Note 864.6 by POLAR::RICHARDSON "The Toad Elevating Moment" >>>
    >
    > This troubles me.
    
    Pray tell, why?  Even SOME of us south of the border can certainly
    appreciate a lady with a cute smile, and a great personality that lets
    her periodically abuse the helmet haired guy...  who definitely looked
    like he deserved the abuse!  She even had the affrontery to DISAGREE
    with the statements some of the people she interviewed made!  After the
    non-personality of the morning people down here, she was a WONDERFUL
    change!  
    
    Can one become an HONORARY Canadian?  How many trips to Canada are
    required?  Is it necessary to learn a foreign language - I think what
    the people in Nova Scotia were speaking English but I'm not sure... 
    Can one of you pronounce the following letters and/or words:
    
    "r", "ou", "Mazda", "Nuclear", "Methyl", "Aluminum"...
    
    BTW:  The ONLY reason I'm back is because my wife SAID we had to come
    home!  I figured from Jasper we could head west through more of British
    Columbia for AT LEAST another couple weeks.  I mean, lets face it,
    what's Digital gonna do at this point - FIRE ME?
864.8KAOP45::ROBILLARDTue Oct 04 1994 14:246
Make sure you DO go back and finish off the trip through BC. Especially the
Okanagan valley. My dreams always take be back there.

OHHHHHHHghghgh, OOOOOOkaaanaaagaaan Vaaaaaaleeeeey!! :^)

Ben
864.9POLAR::RICHARDSONThe Toad Elevating MomentTue Oct 04 1994 14:351
    It's Ben's Homer impression that troubles me.
864.10KAOFS::B_VANVALKENBTue Oct 04 1994 15:2410
    send $ 25 US to Brian Van Valkenburg at site loc LOO and I'll get you
    a spiffy looking card that says your an honourary citizen and as such
    entitled to pay taxes in the province of your choice. Please feel 
    free to extend this offer to your friend and family.
    
    
    ; )
    
    Brian V
    
864.11Simons vs SimpsonKAOA00::KAU138::MCGREGORTue Oct 04 1994 15:454
Are you sure it was Homer?

I thought it was more a Richard Simons.

864.12KAOP45::ROBILLARDTue Oct 04 1994 16:455
RE: -1 

If you can't tell the difference you're in big trouble!!!!!!!! 

Ben
864.13Hey Al,KAFS31::LACAILLEHalf-filled bottles of inspirationTue Oct 04 1994 17:187
	Yeah, Ben is right, he doesn't look like Richard any more,
	he got his hair cut...

	Grins,

	Ab Knoxus
864.14POLAR::RICHARDSONThe Toad Elevating MomentTue Oct 04 1994 17:301
    This troubles me.
864.15ANd I don't blame him...KAOP45::ROBILLARDTue Oct 04 1994 17:453
The guy who wrote the base note will never visit Ottawa. 

Ben 
864.16why not?POLAR::RICHARDSONThe Toad Elevating MomentTue Oct 04 1994 18:022
    
    
864.17Go west old fart, go west...ANGLIN::PEREZTrust, but ALWAYS verify!Tue Oct 04 1994 20:5825
    First, Brian, the $25 is on its way - that was $25 Canadian right?
    
    But, I'm concerned - is there GST on that?  If I'm an honorary citizen
    can I still get the refund of the GST back when I return "south of the
    border"?
    
    BTW:  I drove past Ottawa on the way to Nova Scotia - we'd have loved
    to visit Ottawa, Montreal, and Quebec City but we simply didn't have
    time that trip.  All kidding aside, I also want to learn some french
    before we go - it seems polite that I at least be able to ask simple
    questions in the language of choice of the folks I'm visiting...  If
    there even is a Quebec by then.  I must confess to not understanding
    all the wrangling about that whole thing but I don't want to rekindle
    the flames of the war in this note...
    
    I did get a major chuckle one night when the news guys in Calgary were
    complaining about how some Alberta companies WERE MOVING "SOUTH OF THE
    BORDER" and blaming NAFTA for that - here in the US we complain about
    exactly the same thing but its because they're moving to Mexico...
    
    And, yeah, one of these days I want to explore British Columbia, the
    Yukon, and get up to Alaska.  I also want BIG TIME to get up to
    Blackcomb and Whistler in BC for skiing some day!
    
    I'm stil waiting for those pronunciations though...
864.18USAT02::WARRENFELTZRFri Oct 28 1994 11:283
    Glenn:
    
    Do YOU guys trick or treat???  Inquiring minds and all that stuff...
864.19POLAR::RICHARDSONDoing whirly twirliesFri Oct 28 1994 12:138
    No, we lie and cheat, we're too cheap to trick or treat.


    Hey! That rhymes! I'm a poet and I didn't even suspect for a moment that
    I possibly could have conceivably been a likely individual to exhibit
    such a tendency. 

    Glenn
864.20TROOA::SOLEYFall down, go boomFri Oct 28 1994 17:017
    But seriously (yes I'm aware that seriousness is not a valued cultural
    trait here) Halloween is celebrated here and small children trick or
    treat. However we don't quite get into it as much as our nieghbours to
    the south, a few people decorate for halloween maybe a week before but
    it's nothing like the utter halloween madness that seems to grasp the
    US for the entire month of October. It's interesting at this time of
    year to drive through Niagara Falls on both sides of the border.
864.21POLAR::RICHARDSONDoing whirly twirliesFri Oct 28 1994 17:201
    That's a quick way to get the car washed!  8-)
864.22USAT02::WARRENFELTZRFri Oct 28 1994 18:091
    what is the hottest selling halloween costume?
864.23It's safer hereFSCORE::HOGANFri Oct 28 1994 18:4310
re .20

>we don't quite get into it as much as our nieghbours to the south.

If you're referring to Hell Night "the night before Halloween", then
I guess you're right.  Hell Night, as far as I've been told, is when 
people set fire to people's houses, cars, etc..., and throw appliances
off the top of buildings (especially in Cambden NJ)

Mike
864.24Yeeeehaaaa....POLAR::RUSHTONFri Oct 28 1994 20:414
    >>what is the hottest selling halloween costume?
    
    
    	Red Stanfields, Ultramar tuque, and a bottle of caribou.
864.25TROOA::SOLEYFall down, go boomSat Oct 29 1994 15:225
    you forgot the footwear... Greb Kodiaks
    
    I one went to classes at Waterloo in pretty much that outfit. I had
    lost a bet and had to come to class in my underwear, thank god for
    those Stanfields....