Made it to Ontario
November 28th, 2007 - Made it to Ontario
Out
in Ottawa now...flight to Toronto was uneventful. They had excellent in
flight entertainment in the form of touch screen TVs on the back of the
seats. Made the flight go very quick. Arrived to find it snowing here
which is always a bit of a shock when you leave the wet and relatively
balmy west coast.
I am always moved every time I fly over the
Canadian Prairies; blown away by the size and the scope of the land and
how much it has been altered. On the coast, there are few ways to see
land mass of the magnitude of the Prairies. You can head out on a boat
and gaze out towards Japan...4000 miles of nothing but the water hides
much of what has happened out there. In most ways, the surface of the
ocean appears the same today as it would have 10 000 years ago. The
patchwork quilt of farms on the grasslands of Central Canada stand in
stark contrast to unspoiled, vast wilderness. Where are the buffalo?
Where are the people who once roamed these lands? I can't help but
wonder this. Wish me luck tomorrow...it's the awards show. :) Thanks
for reading