April 30
 

Intercity travel is more fun by Greyhound bus than by rented minivan crammed to bursting with your stuff. Good to be back, yo. It'll take me a couple of days to get in gear, but for today, here's a five-seconder to whet your appetite for... stuff.



Five-Second "The Tholian Web"



Spock: The loss of Captain Kirk is tragic, but we must do what he would, and put the ship first. Helm, set a course for the biggest hole in the Tholians' hilariously slow web.
McCoy: You monster! If you cared about what Jim would do, you would go to your quarters with a yeoman and a keg, and leave me in charge!
Kirk's Ghost: BOO! Now could you two please stop bickering and save me?
McCoy: Jim! You're alive! Spock, how do we -- Spock?
Spock: (hiding behind the command chair) Is it gone?

:D Funny!

Hmm...I just noticed...no 5SBuffy seasons 5, 6, or 7, which would be easy to 5secondafy...then again, one would actually have had to endure remembering season 5, 6 and 7... (they were fun to watch for the first time, but not really repeat-worthy after a while, esp with CSI to watch instead...)

We like stuff. We also like tha moon.

Hooray for Zeke not getting killed in a horrendous auto accident! :D

Are you riding the same Greyhound as I am?

Certainly not the one I do. ;)

But not as much as a spoon :wink:

Are you riding the same minivan crammed to bursting with your stuff as I am?

I've done it in a Ford Tempo. Much better, since I don't have to stop in every town, hamlet and thorp along the way (although once you get past Hope there's nowhere to stop).

Exceptions: blizzards, blinding fog and driving uphill against a torrent of meltwater. Someone else can handle the wheel then.

Driving in BC is fun, for a limited value of "fun".

Emotionally scarring in cases of roadkill.

Drive slow at night. The baby deer will thank you.

I love driving in BC! All those corners and tight turns! Much more fun than Alberta.

I've never driven in the rain in BC though.

Yay! :D


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Alberta doesn't have fog-bound high mountain roads with a sheer rockface on one side and a hundred-metre precipitous drop on the other.

Single lane, no less.

Ah, Roger's Pass. Good times.

Even more fun: realizing that the semi up ahead has passed the only of the "detour" areas between, so you have to BACK UP 100ft onto a gravel platform thingie to get out of its way.

toughest road I ever drove (well not actually drove but being the front seat passenger) was the Dempster Highway......they have nice signs "No Services Next 370 km" that cheered us up :wink:
We drove to Eagle Plains and stayed there for the night in a tent and watched the aurora borealis........next day we crossed the arctic circle and drove back south 'cause the weather became worse north

we only had a doughnut :shock: in case of flat tire because of the sharp small stones
was no good idea driving in a normal car with no "real" 5th tire

had no problem at all but we saw people changing their tires all the time

Oh, you think deer are fun? The sheep on Lewis like to sleep on the roads. Needless to say, not many drive at night unless they really need to.

I'm sure if you took a drive through some places in the Highlands you'd feel right at home. :D

You've obviously never been to BC.

Can you see this in the Highlands?
http://home.iprimus.com.au/mjdowning...ogers-pass.jpg

:P

Err, yes, actually :P .

Ah, yes, driving through BC. My dad and I went to see cousins this summer, and woah! We have a diesel sedan, which is great for milage, but doesn't do anything up hills...we had trucks tailgaiting because we could only get about 70 or 80 KM/h up the huge hills. And of course, my dad wanted me to drive the toughest part of the highway in Southern BC (no, not the Ski to Sky or the Malahat...besides, the Malahat is easy) and I ended up having to avoid a huge elk lying across the road (I wanted to call animal services to help it, but alas, no cell service) and then a jack-knifed truck!

And you know, in BC, you really get a good lesson in driving. Rain, snow, sleet, sun, and of course, pollen.

The picture doesn't do it justice. That snow-capped knife-edged peak rears majestically above the pass (which itself is several hundred metres above the surrounding landscape), while the Highlands, while aesthetic in their own right, have been reduced by hundreds of millions of years of weathering.

I miss BC. I'm ready for Spring, and Ottawa isn't obliging.

I've actually driven Rogers Pass. I know it can get a little scary, like about a month ago I was going over the Monashee or however you spell it, and it had tight turns. They were so much fun until it started snowing and then I got a little scared.

I just enjoy driving in BC because unlike Alberta you actually have to drive. Long straight roads are always so boring. There's a reason I never go to Edmonton, aside from the fact that it's Edmonton. The trip from Calgary to Edmonton is a near perfectly straight line. You could fall alseep and not go off the road.

This post has been brought to you by the "I hate Alberta" club of Alberta. I wanna move to BC! And I would, but I don't want to pay pst.