It's wayyyy past sensible people's bedtimes, and I've got an solar-observing astronomy lab to go to tomorrow (weather permitting), and yet thanks to a link in an e-mail I've spent the last hour watching road videos, starting with this one:

BC 99 North, Sea-to-Sky Highway, North Vancouver To SquamishYou must see this in HD - I've even linked it ( Read more... )

AmherstCame over Blue Mountain. Was a nice drive, and on the Pictou County side of Blue Mountain the road was pleasantly smooth. Unfortunately, the Gysborough County side was almost all rough and tumble. I probably would have been better off going by way of Antigonish ( Read more... )

The year was twenty hundred and nine
(Oh I wish I was in Sherbrooke now)
When a letter of mark came from Grandma
To take the crummiest road I'd ever seen
God damn them all, I was told
We'd cruise the road with alacrity, bold
We'd blow no tires
Shed no tears
Now I've a broken car in a Halifax garage
The last time I'll drive Highway 7

The trip west into the mountains was spectacular. (It’ll be great to get the photos up, but I’m currently more than three months behind on photos!)

The road to get there was really interesting. First, there was the Tokushima Expressway. Picture the two-lane portions of Highway 101 but with a centre median, periodic tunnels, and some elevated ( Read more... )

Well, I made it to Souris safe and sound last night. For the curious, I drove from Sherbrooke to Antigonish, as the driving was initially slushy, so I thought it best to avoid the Blue Mountain Road, which features, among other things, fire towers, sharp curves, steep hills, and a total lack of cell coverage. I took the extra half-hour detour to ( Read more... )

And here I am in Lviv! I think it's the most beautiful city I've ever been in, next to Krakow. It's old, very old. And in terms of traffic, think of it as downtown Halifax, but somehow narrower, and ten times more conjested. It's rather funny, actually. People just do what they need to do. I saw an electric bus go off one of its power rails ( Read more... )