Canada report # 34

We were driving out to Carter’s parents campground another day. As we were driving I started to think about something seemingly insignificant yet somehow profound: Texas Gates.
I think that whoever invented those was a very brilliant man (or a woman, but I doubt that). It is a simple yet very clever invention. Cows can’t cross it, yet cars can. Can you imagine that there are people who can find solutions to simple things like that? He is probably dead, but his invention is used all over the north America. I wonder was his name Texas or was he from Texas.
P.S. The reason I said that I doubt that woman invented it is not because I think that they are incapable, they most defiantly are. It was more because of the specifics of the invention I tend to see that was more men project. But I might be wrong.

Canada report # 33

Today I saw something that I had seen before but not to this extent. There is something about Canadian efficiency that just somehow does not work when it comes to road constriction.
I was driving today down the Deerfoot and all of a sudden all lines are being pushed into one. It took forever to get anywhere. And then I saw it. Giant machine was doing something to the road (probably paving it). I was captivated by this beast; however, I was not the only one who was captivated by this machine. At least 8 men in orange vests were standing there, chatting and looking how this machine is doing something.
Then I remembered the joke that went something like that: How many Canadians does it take to fix the road?

I am back in Canada

Yup I am back to the country of the Maple leave and into the province with no Maple trees whatsoever. Sometimes I feel guilty for loving Canada so much but then again I feel guilty every time I eat ice-cream.
But let me tell you about the one thing I do not feel guilty about. I do not feel guilty for enjoying the company of the bestest friends in the world.
With two of them I went hiking another day. Ones we got to Rockies it started to rain very badly and we got kind of lost. We hardly got out of the car; except just long enough for me to take this picture of them. Have you ever had friends with whom it is great to be together even when everything goes wrong? I would not traded this afternoon spend with them even for the very best planed vacation. Friends make life just a little bid more bearable, don’t you think.
Another day I was talking on the phone with one of my other friend in Toronto. As I was listening to her wrong opinion on the war in Lebanon, I realized that I love Canada not because of its money or nature or even climate. I love Canada because some of the very best people I have ever met live in the country of the Maple leave and in the province with no Maple trees whatsoever.