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Back from Canada, New Job
boeboe
Member Posts: 3,331
Just got back to Wichita, KS from Montreal. Spent a week there and a week in Cincinnatti on training for my new job. I drove, and was thinking of you guys along the way, wondering how many of you I'd be passing by as I drove.
It was a long road trip. Took the wife with me and stopped in Niagra Falls for a day on the way to Canada. Just as I suspected, there is one heck of a lot of water moving over those falls. Montreal was interesting with all the French speaking population, but the traffic was something else. The stop signs are enough to drive a person crazy, it seems like the put them everywhere. It seems like even the through streets have them every three or four blocks.
I tried to locate some gun shops, just to see what it was like up there, but I couldn't find any. They were just too far out of the way to make it worth while. It was interesting talking to some of the Canadians about hunting and such.
One of the more interesting things, the guy who was doing my training the second week was very much into guns. So much, in fact, he gave me a souvenier of something he built over 10 years ago, a .17 cal. 22 rimfire mag. The new .17 cal isn't so new after all. He was pulling shells from .22 magnum rounds and re-sizing them 10 years ago.
Stopped in Milwaukee on the way home, to see my daughters, 10 and 12. When I got there, every motel room was sold out due to a Brewers game. I drove all the way to Madison looking for one, at 2:00 in the morning gave up, there just was no rooms available. Slept in the car that night.
Got home and my computer had fried in an electric storm while I was away. I guess the surge protector just didn't work on some of those Kansas thunderstorms. I'm typing this on my laptop, that's a pain. So, guess I better go for now.
To err is human, to moo is bovine.
It was a long road trip. Took the wife with me and stopped in Niagra Falls for a day on the way to Canada. Just as I suspected, there is one heck of a lot of water moving over those falls. Montreal was interesting with all the French speaking population, but the traffic was something else. The stop signs are enough to drive a person crazy, it seems like the put them everywhere. It seems like even the through streets have them every three or four blocks.
I tried to locate some gun shops, just to see what it was like up there, but I couldn't find any. They were just too far out of the way to make it worth while. It was interesting talking to some of the Canadians about hunting and such.
One of the more interesting things, the guy who was doing my training the second week was very much into guns. So much, in fact, he gave me a souvenier of something he built over 10 years ago, a .17 cal. 22 rimfire mag. The new .17 cal isn't so new after all. He was pulling shells from .22 magnum rounds and re-sizing them 10 years ago.
Stopped in Milwaukee on the way home, to see my daughters, 10 and 12. When I got there, every motel room was sold out due to a Brewers game. I drove all the way to Madison looking for one, at 2:00 in the morning gave up, there just was no rooms available. Slept in the car that night.
Got home and my computer had fried in an electric storm while I was away. I guess the surge protector just didn't work on some of those Kansas thunderstorms. I'm typing this on my laptop, that's a pain. So, guess I better go for now.
To err is human, to moo is bovine.