Wet weather and Tim Horton's
Oct. 18th, 2006 06:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayI am sitting in my aunt's little house with a cup of Tim Horton's coffee, listening to the rain beating down outside. Considering we've been driving through that rain for most of the day, it feels pretty good here right now.
I'm back in Halifax after a week of travelling and looking forward to sleeping in the same bed for a few nights in a row. Travelling is great, but this is probably the most travelling we've done on a holiday and there was only one time where we stayed in the same place for two nights running. I'm not sure when my next trip over will be, but I'm definitely planning on doing a little less road time and a little more relaxing. We managed to cover most of New Brunswick over the last week and even spend an afternoon in Maine. St. Stephen is a town on the border (it was our two night location) so my father and I decided that we needed to walk over the border just to say that we'd been to the USA. Mom did it dozens of times when she was a kid but it was a first for us.
We do not feel the need to do that again :-) How do you folks who visit the USA regularly (or, heaven forbid, live there) manage it? Those border guards and Scary. Seriously Scary. We got fingerprinted and photographed and I was half afraid that they'd declare us terrorists and lock us up! There was something in their manner that just made them really scary. So, America is cool and all but probably not somewhere that I'll be visiting frequently.
The Canadian border guards were much nicer.
I've been buzzing around, looking at the news (watched the BBC World on the TV earlier, too) to catch up. And checking out the LJ news, too, although I doubt there's much hope of catching up with that :-) Although I do notice that they've now released an official LJ Talk client that I may be trying out when I get home - particularly if I can get cheap calls to the US and Canada through it. Of course, first I need to buy myself a microphone...
I'm back in Halifax after a week of travelling and looking forward to sleeping in the same bed for a few nights in a row. Travelling is great, but this is probably the most travelling we've done on a holiday and there was only one time where we stayed in the same place for two nights running. I'm not sure when my next trip over will be, but I'm definitely planning on doing a little less road time and a little more relaxing. We managed to cover most of New Brunswick over the last week and even spend an afternoon in Maine. St. Stephen is a town on the border (it was our two night location) so my father and I decided that we needed to walk over the border just to say that we'd been to the USA. Mom did it dozens of times when she was a kid but it was a first for us.
We do not feel the need to do that again :-) How do you folks who visit the USA regularly (or, heaven forbid, live there) manage it? Those border guards and Scary. Seriously Scary. We got fingerprinted and photographed and I was half afraid that they'd declare us terrorists and lock us up! There was something in their manner that just made them really scary. So, America is cool and all but probably not somewhere that I'll be visiting frequently.
The Canadian border guards were much nicer.
I've been buzzing around, looking at the news (watched the BBC World on the TV earlier, too) to catch up. And checking out the LJ news, too, although I doubt there's much hope of catching up with that :-) Although I do notice that they've now released an official LJ Talk client that I may be trying out when I get home - particularly if I can get cheap calls to the US and Canada through it. Of course, first I need to buy myself a microphone...
