little bitty girl

There definitely are some perks to my job. One of the big ones is that I get to go on some road trips. It's really great because I definitely have the nomadic spirit in me and the thought of sitting just at a desk all the time would make me want to jump out the nearest window. Well, not quite so drastic but close enough.

It's funny because friends who live in Europe and Asia have no concept how large the land mass is in Canada. You really have to travel quite awhile to get from A to B, if you are visiting the smaller cities or towns from the metropolitan centres. Ontario, the province I live in, is the largest so I do have to do quite a number of road trips to get anywhere.

I am so country mouse-city mouse. I like to think I would like to live on a farm in a picturesque small town; but Stefan will only have to remind me that I sometimes have cravings for Vietnamese noodles at 3 a.m. to make me realize that I love living in the city. I guess that is why so many people in Ontario own cottages by lakes to go to on the weekends.

Stratford is such a beautiful little town. It's only two hours away - thank goodness! It has beautiful historic houses, a great Shakesperan festival in the summer time and a really quaint Main Street. I really wish I carried my camera with me. The snow was blanketed over farmland and gorgeous ice crystals were hanging from branches of ancient trees. Most of the houses were very well kept and I felt like I had stepped back in time.

Some other observations I made on this road trip -

Men are the worst tail gaters! Sometimes I was doing 140 km/h on the fast lane and I still always had some moron on my tail. The moron was always male. The speed limit is 100 km/h for Pete's sake.

I really find driving very calming which is a good thing since I have to drive so much.

I need to remember that when it's an open road, I should watch my speed limit. I have a tendency to speed. I guess that I am so used to the slow as molasses urban crawl on dense Toronto highways, that I get a little speed happy.

I was so shocked to see the calvacade of trucks on the highway. Even though it makes complete sense since we all need to get our goods from somewhere.

I can't decide whether it's worse to drive past fresh road kill or to drive over very flatten road kill.

Why is there SO MUCH road kill on Ontario highways?