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Leaving Montreal

Well, I’ve managed to make it through the month. In a few hours, I’ll be leaving Montreal for Orlando. I just hope my ears can manage the flights back. Yesterday I had a whopper of a cold/flu. It wasn’t so bad during the day because they day/night medicine I picked up did wonders. A lot [...]

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Clashing ideas

Yesterday in my journey through more of the underground city, I stumbled upon some pretty sweet architecture. Not bad to keep myself away from the slush and more snow flurries. Besides, I haven’t been feeling the greatest — a lot on my mind, and tired of not being able to cook for myself. I miss [...]

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Transporation fun!

Even though riding public transportation is quite nice (I’m enjoying not fighting with traffic!), it provides some very interesting experiences as well. Take, for example, the old gentleman who I encountered upon departing the subway yesterday. I was looking at the map just to make sure I knew where I was headed, and he asked [...]

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Sci-Fi Fantasy

So the whole day seems like it’s been something straight out of a Sci-fi movie. I feel like I’ve been running around all day with my transit passing yelling, “MultiPass!” Part of me is beginning to doubt that this was a good move, but another part is exhilarated by the challenge. I really don’t want [...]

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Bibliothèque, Baby!

So here I am at 5:30 on a Sunday night. Today I got my weekly bus/metro pass, and once again I found that the French-Canadian people are very generous to stupid American tourists. The metro station that I went to sold out of the weekly passes already, so he let me ride for free to [...]

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