More Mappiness
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Today I bought myself a YouEss/Mehico/Canadia atlas at B&N - made by MapQuest, it's their 2006 Deluxe Edition full-sized (the smaller-sized one didn't have a lot of the state routes). Deluxe had a hard waterproof front and back cover protector that the normal didn't, which is essential when it's gonna ride in my damp and cramped trunk for a year or two. I figured it'd be a good idea to know where
jethereal and I were thinking of travelling this August. So I sat and looked at it for a while, while talking with
jethereal about where we were thinking of going. (Try typing "where we were" even once fast!)
Jethy, you know I think you're awesome, but you have NO sense of direction! He didn't realize we'd have to go West a lot to get to Niagara Falls, and he thought Acadia National Park was in Canadia (rather than Maine). I'd never heard of it so I had an excuse of having no clue whatsoever, but he's the one that wanted to go there.
Current thought is I-95 up to Acadia (Maine!), that'll take a day or two, hang out in that area for a few nights, and maybe take a ferry from there to Nova Scotia. I believe there's a maritime museum in Halifax that has an exhibit about this catastrophic shipping disaster where this huge ship in like the early 1900's caught fire and crashed into a harbor and burned half the city down. I forget the name of the ship and museum, but I can look them up. As well as info about Acadia, and the ferry. Too bad neither of us know crap about camping, we could save lots of money that way. That's not something I can just Google and feel comfy with though. :-P
I wonder if the Canadia/US border is any more difficult these days than when I last crossed, in college, before nine-eleven. Then, at Niagara, it was a cursory glance by Canadian Customs and a turnstile that took a quarter or something. On the way back there was a metal detector, three questions, and a full-body turnstile that can't be jumped. The questions were silly things like "what was the purpose of your trip," "where are you going now," "is this address current?" In fact, it was just a driver's license then that was all you needed, but I think a passport is needed now.
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Jethy, you know I think you're awesome, but you have NO sense of direction! He didn't realize we'd have to go West a lot to get to Niagara Falls, and he thought Acadia National Park was in Canadia (rather than Maine). I'd never heard of it so I had an excuse of having no clue whatsoever, but he's the one that wanted to go there.
Current thought is I-95 up to Acadia (Maine!), that'll take a day or two, hang out in that area for a few nights, and maybe take a ferry from there to Nova Scotia. I believe there's a maritime museum in Halifax that has an exhibit about this catastrophic shipping disaster where this huge ship in like the early 1900's caught fire and crashed into a harbor and burned half the city down. I forget the name of the ship and museum, but I can look them up. As well as info about Acadia, and the ferry. Too bad neither of us know crap about camping, we could save lots of money that way. That's not something I can just Google and feel comfy with though. :-P
I wonder if the Canadia/US border is any more difficult these days than when I last crossed, in college, before nine-eleven. Then, at Niagara, it was a cursory glance by Canadian Customs and a turnstile that took a quarter or something. On the way back there was a metal detector, three questions, and a full-body turnstile that can't be jumped. The questions were silly things like "what was the purpose of your trip," "where are you going now," "is this address current?" In fact, it was just a driver's license then that was all you needed, but I think a passport is needed now.