Up North

Edmonton

From Halifax I have proceeded to Edmonton, and I have managed to do so without tranquilizers thanks to a gentlmean on the plane who sat next to me and tried to take my fear away from me by pointing out that so what? what's the use of panicking on the plane when you can't change what's happening anyway? Whatever happens, happens. We're all going to die some day. And it'll be a quick dead. Well, apart from those cheerful and uplifting comments it helped that I was seated at the front of the plane where I could see the flight attendants caht and prattle and be merry. And as long as they have no wrinkels of worry on their foreheads, why should I worry, right? Still, there were some nasty bumps on that flight (over Ontario, Great Lakes Region) which made me aware of the fact that I wqill never be able to enjoy a flight. Or relax. I will always be tense and dread it.
Anyway, I'm in Edmonton now and since Meaghan has to work I spent yesterday with her boyfriend Stephen, wandering around downtown (which looks quite ghostly to be honest, because you have all those high rises and so few people walking the broad streets) and seeing an art exhibition featuring young Chinese art. It was good, esp. walking thorugh it with somebody who loves art and does art and can point out those little details that a non-artist like me would never have thought of. But it had a disturbing number of pink pig heads which reminded me of Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies combined. Brrrr. We had a vegetarian lunch afterwards. Today I spent with Meaghan's friend Malcolm cycling on a tandem which M&M had used to bike through Asia a few years ago. It was a very leisurely ride for me, sitting in the back seat and enjoying the landscape (mainly trees and meadows, no sunshine but the smell of woods.lovely) we did 60km in less than 3 hours. I did feel my legs afterwards, so I suppose I was not entirely idle.
Tomorrow morning I'm going on to Calgary.

posted by Conni @ 4:26 PM