JA
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03:28:10 am on August 6, 2003 |
Since Tuesday the 15th of July, I have traveled quite a bit. I have sat in planes and cars for hours and hours so I was wondering how many kilometres (or miles) I have covered so far. After a 5 minute search at the powerful Google, I stumbled upon a cool tool that allows me to determine the distance among Canadian cities.
So here we go… (where mentioned trip was made by plane. rest = car)
15th July:
- Saskatoon to Calgary = 376 Miles or 605 Kilometers (Airplane)
- Calgary to Montreal = 2,248 Miles or 3,618 Kilometers (walked…. Just playing…. airplane 😉
18th July
Montreal to Ottawa = 121 Miles or 195 Kilometers
21st July
Ottawa to Montreal = 121 Miles or 195 Kilometers
25th July
- Montreal to Toronto (the city where SARS was) = 339 Miles or 546 Kilometers
- Toronto to Mississagua (where Paulina my friend from S. Africa lives) = no idea 😉 20 minutes by car doing 70 km/h average, you do the maths
27th July
Trip back to Montreal = 339 Miles or 546 Kilometers
3rd August
Back to Ottawa to drop off my brother’s hi-fi and to have a little “chat” with him. = 121 Miles or 195 Kilometers
4th Aug
Trip back by Greyhound = 121 Miles or 195 Kilometers
Time to whip out my calculator…. the total amounts to:6095 km (3788.067122436296 miles)! Wow not bad… I hope to double or triple it by the end of the summer. Just have to get out my trust map of Canada, give a glance at my bank balance, hop onto another greyhound and explore further the east of Canada because next summer, the west side will see me again (I briefly went there during the April break)
Now, you might be wondering what I do to keep myself busy during these long trips. Well, here’s the usual pattern:
- Pray so that I get at the destination in one (alive) piece
- Go to the loo (annoying weak bladder, grr….)
- Chat with the people in the same car or plane
- Look outside the window to see what’s happening out there
- Make myself comfy and sleep (usually half the trip)
- Read a book or write down notes about some business ideas (it seems that most my ideas sneak on me in a car or in the shower)
- More sightseeing
- Get my stuff ready cos once we hit the brakes and the door open up, I don’t waste time, I just hop out and go on about my life
- Find a loo to get rid of the excess luggage :o) But I don’t drop off the kids in public toilets… Of course unless I have to go!
- Thank God to have arrived alive and pray for me not to get lost in the unfamiliar places I find myself in
- Find a phone or a map or a bus stop or a metro station
One thing I must purchase is one of those neck holder thingy because I have this paranoia that one day, I’ll snap my neck when I asleep in moving car.
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