16 Down, 84 To Go.

It looks like I accidently completed another item on The List.

#23. Visit Canada.

With my visit to Klas in Australia I’ve also shaved off another continent on item number 50. I’ll probably make it to Africa one day, Antarctica will be more of a challenge.

In Canada we used a camcorder I brought with me from work and we shot about 90 minutes of raw video. I’m hoping to edit down to maybe 5 to 10 minutes of at least semi-interesting material and Hans Olav has provided me with a copy of a rather advanced video editing tool. The software manual is a whopping two thousand pages and I’m not planning to read through it all, but from what I gather “logging” the clips is a good idea.

The DV camera has marked each clip on the tape, so in theory it should not be much work to log the clips, but so far I’ve been unable get the editing software to actually use the marks for anything useful.

What would life be without the daily challenge?

Back to Frenchie Land.

Our Canadian adventure is about to come to an end. We’re in our marvelous Dodge Charger heading back towards Queubec and Montréal. The initial plan was to go to Ottawa today, then directly from Ottawa to Montréal airport tomorrow afternoon, but the weather forecast made us change our plans. It’s snow on the horizon, and it’s been snowing a bit already.

But not to worry, the Canadians - at least most of them - are well behaved drivers and we’ve encountered convoys of trucks removing the snow from the road. Our car has new tires, ABS, EPS and all kinds of other sophisticated systems to keep us on the road. Besides, the sturdy Dodge is so large it’ll bounce of pretty much anything.

Niagara Falls.

We’ve moved further south-west and are now sitting in a cheap inn watching a nausciating show called “Supersize She” on TLC. If you enjoy women looking like male body builders, you should watch it as well. If you don’t like it, I recommend that you stay clear.

Why are we watching TV instead of experiencing Canada? It’s been raining heavily all day, making it a bit of a challenge to get around, even with our masculine Dodge. We have moved to Niagara Falls to look at the, erh, falls, but to be honest, I was not impressed and was expecting it to be larger - at least higher.

Tomorrow we’ll move north again, around Lake Ontario.

Oh, Canada.

Slow on the updates, yes, but bear with me, I’m on vacation. Still on vacation. Hard to believe.

Australia is now far, far away and I have hooked up with Hans Olav and Gine. Me and Hans Olav spent a night in Montréal before we met Gine and a friend of hers at the airport, picked up our rental - a killer Dodge Charger - and started our journey towards Kingston. After a night there we’re now taking the scienic route towards Toronto.

Australia was the no-no country. No biking, no skateboarding, no smoking, no eating (but smoking), no drinking (but eating) and so on and so forth everywhere. In Canada the same rules might apply, but there are no signs everywhere to tell you about it. I mean “abot” it, of course…