{"id":11491,"date":"2014-10-02T21:13:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T01:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11491"},"modified":"2014-10-02T21:14:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T01:14:03","slug":"back-from-banff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11491","title":{"rendered":"Back from Banff"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I had a wonderful time in Canada.<\/p>\n

I’ve been back in New York since Sunday evening, and I’m still not entirely settled into things just yet. I keep waiting to wake up and discover that I’m still on vacation, still in my comfortably care-worn room in the Banff Centre’s Lloyd Hall. Two weeks was just enough time, I think, for two weeks to feel like not enough time at all. It went by incredibly fast.<\/p>\n

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I don’t remember my last trip there, in 2011, racing by quite as quickly — although, sure enough, my record of the trip<\/a> suggests that maybe it did. Certainly, Banff is beautiful country, surrounded by mountains and nestled inside a national park, so leaving it behind is never going to be easy.<\/p>\n

Seriously, I took a lot<\/i> of photographs<\/a> while I was there. (They do seem to have added themselves to that album sort of randomly, I should perhaps warn you.) You could probably walk around doing almost nothing else. There are parts of Alberta, and certainly the parts of Banff that I saw, that are ridiculously beautiful. As I noted earlier this year when I watched Passchendaele<\/i><\/a>, there are parts of the country that are just achingly beautiful. Two weeks surrounded by mountains did not convince me otherwise.<\/p>\n

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I got some writing done — one story’s already been rejected once! — took in some great scenery, met some interesting people, saw some elk along the way, and got to hang out some with Heather<\/a>, who I’m going to say may be my favorite Canadian. (I mean, I met Chris Hadfield once at a book signing, and he seemed nice enough. But let’s see the man brave sitting in this chair<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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I’m really just tempted to point you in the direction of those photos, along with my Twitter feed for the weeks that I was there, rather than try to recap the entire trip here. Let’s just say it was a wonderful time and I am sad not to still be there.<\/p>\n

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Hope it goes without saying, but I thoroughly enjoyed my two (short) weeks @thebanffcentre<\/a> and hope some day to return!<\/p>\n

— Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) September 27, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n