No Comparisons

A couple of recent radio programs about the building of the Trans Canada Highway 4 or 5 decades ago keep going on about what a great feat it was.  Keeping in mind that is the longest national highway system in the world (Wikkipedia), Canadians and visitors from out of the country will know that very little of it is divided highway and/or limited access, a situation that will be slow to change, given the inter-provincial/federal squabbling and turf wars that so often stand in the way of getting anything done up here.  So we seemed doomed to insane traffic congestion through the mountains for the foreseeable future.  No comparison to the US Interstate system .... sorry, I wasn't going to start comparing.....

Recovering from Travels Down South

There's been some time to come down from that USA trip (16,000 km, 28 states, 8 weeks) and as a long-time pro-Canadian, it's difficult NOT to compare certain things on both sides of the 49th, but that's what Canadians do all the time, right?  What I can say is that there's a lot of pretty great stuff "down there".  People were friendly and helpful everywhere we went and I'm looking forward to traveling down there again soon.  Some photographic impressions of this great trip are here....