Finally, I go home today and I don't have to go anywhere else any time soon.
Calgary is . . . well, it's a nice-looking city. The population is more dense than in Ottawa, but the city itself feels much smaller. There's not really a "greater" Calgary - just a sprawl with no real organization.
It's a busy city - construction everywhere, people rushing to and fro, things going on all the time . . . it's like Toronto that way, but the people are nicer. It's just very intense here - a little too intense for my liking.
And the traffic!
Most people seem to drive huge pickups and Hummers - I've seen more white Hummers in this city in two days than I have watching Ray Emery drive around town in three years. Nobody speeds here because of a radar monitoring system, but staying under the speed limit seems to entitle the drivers to do whatever they want. The Calgarians in their massive trucks make me and Dad and our Dodge Charger look tiny. Yesterday, driving downtown, we were cut off by a cement truck. Let's establish first that we were stopped in traffic when it happened, with no space either in front or behind us when this happened. It was a slow and terrifying process . . .
Anyway, we're going to get ourselves some breakfast (despite the time it says I posted this, it's still dark outside and only half past 8 in the morning) and do some last-day exploring.
See you at midnight. And then to work at 930 the next morning. And 830 the day after that.
Posted by Ally at January 17, 2008 10:29 AM