September 12, 2009

Ontario

Hey all,

The last few weeks have been travel full-  my mom and I spent a week north of the Border hiking at Sleeping Giant Provinical Park before I flew out to Colorado.   Up North, the rain of late summer found us, and drove the two of us into the town of Kekebeka Falls outside of our campground.   During the meal, I discovered the perfect phrase to summarize the feel of North Shore towns.  The exchange follows:
mom: "I'll have the pancakes"
athena: "and I'll have the breakfast scramble."
waitress: "okay, dear.  Brown or White?"
athena: "...what?"
waitress: "Toast. brown or white?"
athena: "....that is amazing"
waitress: "huh?"
athena: "brown, please."
waitress. "okay"

The next time you find yourself debating brown or white toast, look around carefully.  You may be in Ontario.

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August 14, 2009

The average American walks 5,210 steps in her day: 1,901,650 a year. How many of my less then two millions steps this year retraced the same path that I created last year? The next few months I have set aside to make footprints in areas never touched by my toes. It is time to take my small dotted line around the map of the world, far outside it’s comfort zone, and gain some blisters along the way.