So here I am, sitting in Sundance, impatiently waiting for tommorow to arrive. 24 hours to go, and the realization that I'm going away from Canada for a long time is setting in. As I write this, the thought that struck me was I have never left Canada for more than 2 weeks at a time.

I had recently spent the weekend in Kimberley, BC with the beautiful lady pictured. BC really does feel like God's country (if there is such a thing for you post-modernists out there). I amazed myself at how much of a city boy I actually am. I was sitting on a porch relatively early in the evening and something felt off. I looked about and scratched my chin, wondering what it could be. And then it hit me like a tonne of bricks, the silence was overwhelming. I could hear my own heart beat and I realize how weird that is for that to be a foreign experience to me.

On the bus ride to Kimberley, I finished an amazing book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick. This is an amazing book which I highly recommend to everyone, as it was the basis for the sci-fi classic movie, Bladerunner. One of the concepts that is dealt with in the novel is wildlife and how important they truly are to man. The novel is set after a nuclear war, and it is considered a rare and holy experience to see an animal in it's natural habitat. Considering the only wildlife I see in Calgary are the damn rabbits everywhere, going to Kimberley and seeing moose, deer and elk about was a bit of a shocker. Living in a city really does have it's drawbacks, and now in perspective it feels very dehumanizing (even though people are everywhere!).

This all being said, I'm going to miss Calgary. My friends, family and all the random people make this city great. So I don't know what else to write other than I'm excited to get the hell out of Canada for awhile and see the world. So here's a picture of me and Andy acting like fools: