I am in Canada.<\/p>\n
I woke up around three-thirty this morning, in the dark of the continued black-out, and caught a train into Jamaica. Across the platform, at my station, was another guy, who I thought was waiting for another train, but who then called across the tracks, asking me to dial 911.<\/p>\n
“Um…why?” I wondered aloud, once I figured out that’s what he was asking.<\/p>\n
“Because I know that guy,” he said, cryptically. I think he was pointing at another person who’d just arrived, down at the other end of the platform. There wasn’t anybody else there that early in the morning.<\/p>\n
“I’m just about to get on this train,” I said. My train was just then pulling into the station.<\/p>\n
“I know!” he said. “That’s why.”<\/p>\n
He continued to gesture at me through the window, from across the track, even as I got on the train and left him behind. I didn’t call 911. I really have no idea why he wanted me to, if he was crazy or drunk or that’s just his idea of a weird joke. I was just glad two tracks separated us, and I was more than happy to leave him behind. Maybe I let some dangerous criminal board the same train as me, but I think I more likely just let some weird creep hanging out at the station before dawn disappointed.<\/p>\n
It was kind of a weird start to the day.<\/p>\n
The rest of it, though, went by pretty much as expected. I spent a lot longer checking in at the airport than I would have liked — there was some kind of tour group or family or just lots of people all from the same neighborhood who’d coincidentally shown up — and I had to go through the back-scatter x-ray machine for the first time. (Ineffective, potentially risky, possible violation of civil liberties and<\/i> it takes considerably longer? Oh, sign me up!) But I made it to my gate in time for my 7 am flight to Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n
Where I was for, I think, all of twenty minutes before my connecting flight to Calgary.<\/p>\n
I’m staying at the Farimnt Palliser downtown, which is nice, although I’m probably too exhausted and here for too short a time to really enjoy it, even with my complimentary room upgrade. (Even that’s only because I think business is slow. Today, at least, there don’t seem to be too many other people here. But still, the room is nice.)<\/p>\n
So I won’t see an awful lot of Calgary. I walked around a little, and the weather’s quite nice so far, but most of the trip here will be spent in Banff.<\/p>\n
All of which starts tomorrow. I’m looking forward to it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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