Yeah, they seem to have a high number of Asians here but I'm under the impression that's true for the whole west coast of NA. And indeed as Remy pointed out, there's virtually no African Americans around here.
Of course, there's the famous north west climate (continuous rain, just like home:-), but from downtown in 10 minutes into a forest is great.
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On Wednesday and Thursday we drove back from Vancouver to Calgary, taking the scenic route by going via Jasper over the Icefields Parkway. Driving these two days doesn't feel like traveling at all since I've been constantly in amazement over the changing scenery.
Mid May is the perfect time to travel like this this as we found out. While we still had some snow, driving conditions were perfect with very few cars on the road. And motels (as long as you keep out of places like Jasper) run around 80 CA$ a night for a decent room.
Driving in the Rocky Mountains means sunny and 19 degrees centigrade at 10:00 changing into snowing and 1 degrees at 10:15 to be back at 15 degrees and sunny again at 10:30. Amazing weather changes in very short periods, I suspect it has to do with the peaks stopping clouds and other weather components from passing them. Of course, the altitude also matters.
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So we've been travelling through New England the past 6 days and I must say wow... It has exceeded my expectations and then some... Johnny, I'm sorry but had to skip Boston. We'll do that another time.
Bummer you aren't swinging by, but yeah, New England in the fall is pretty sweet. Where have you been? Though we just had a muck of rain and snow last night, about 2 months early.
CS, still thinking about coming 'round these parts? My busiest time is over, but my dad might visit soon or I'm visiting AZ one of these weekends.
better stop spending those travel bucks frivolously ... you will soon have kids to pay for!!
Hmm, my girlfriend is long past the kids stage I'm afraid as she has a 18 year old daughter already, but yes, those cost money too! And indeed, this trip has been expensive but staying with friends on Manhattan made it much more doable.
Johnny, we went to Newport, Middletown in Rhode Island (my favourite state), Sandwich and a few other places on Cape Cod then Portsmouth, MA, a few small places in New Hampshire plus Hanover, a few small places in Vermont then Albany, New York and finally via Yonkers (where the Half Moon ship was located for a few weeks) back to Manhattan.
It's been the best holiday ever as we didn't see any other weather type than sunny with blue skies.
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Soups in Cape cod, isn't he?
Last I can remember he was in the Providence area, no? Where is he anyway, I think we've finally lost him.
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Ya, Soup has been gone a long time. Yes, he was in Providence.
Okay guys, if we have time, what should I try to see/do in Minneapolis area?
Well, drop by FirstTech! (my work).
Wanna come to an Al Franken fundraiser?
You know, I like Al Franken ... and that's...okay. Very few 'kids' my age watched and liked Franken and Davis. Let alone Bob and Ray.
some of those are gorgeous.
It's indeed a bit enhanced but believe me when I say that these skies are not that uncommon overhere. The Dutch masters were of course famous for the specific light in their paintings. For some reason it's special.