Oh Canada, Oh Canada, oh how I love thee!

Well, technically, the FINISHING THE GAME Grassroots Tour is over.  However, not all good things have to come to an end.  Much like in Empire Strikes Back where Luke and R2D2 detour from the Ice Planet of Hoth to Degobah to search out Yoda, Justin and I venture to Vancouver, BC tomorrow morning to search for moose, goose, dry, and a film festival.

As foreigners, Justin and I hope to encounter and befriend one of these 4 legged, Candaian locals.

I have great admiration for Canada.  In many ways, I find it a nation that possesses all the great things of Americana without all the smelly bad things like the current leader of our country, GWB.  Just returning from Hawaii, however, I realize that we are in for a serious temperature shock.  Hawaii was about 85 degrees and humid.  I just checked weather.com and realized that 40 degrees and rainy will be the climate while we are north of the border.  Personally, I prefer warm weather to cold.  However, if I had to choose a way to die, I would probably prefer to freeze to death than to burn to a crisp.

Whether male or female, The Canadian Goose looks exactly the same.  This is a scientifically proven fact.  How such a physical trait is an evolutionary benefit is beyond me.

One great thing from the past year of Grass Roots traveling is that I have learned to pack really, really light.  Tomorrow I will exercise my travel knowledge by only packing 1 small backpack for a 4 night stay.  I will bring 2 shirts, 3 underwear, 2 socks, 1 toothbrush, and just wear the rest on the plane.  My hope is that it does not get hot.  I am relying on zero sweat to avoid that dank smell of skin and body that we all know too well but refuse to speak of.  Tomorrow, we got North!  : )

For those of you who love to drink Canada Dry, this is what the stuff looks like under a black light.  Water is not supposed to look like that.