I made it back. Yeah. Always so much excitement and will-they-wont-they fun. And the silver lining was that I (on the waitlist) got put into the side of the plane that I didn't want to be on, but it turned out to be just the right one: the plane passed over the series of giant volcanoes which I'd previously blogged about from the ground level, stretching from southern Washington State all the way into Northern California. Then it flew right over the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco downtown before making a U-Turn to land over the crazy coloured salt fields in the south side of the Bay. It was a beautiful flight.
The sunset photo below was taken on the outward bound trip, the others from the return one:
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So for the joy of asymmetry, here is my list of the most striking differences between the USA and Canada:
- Canadians are even more polite than Americans. They stop for you if you're jay-walking across a road.
- the public transport in Canada is both usable and used, although cars are only marginally smaller than America's hulking monsters
- coins for dollars, and attractive money
- checkerboard street grids with exciting names like "5th Avenue" "Broadway" and "64th Street"
- Fast Food Nations
- quarters, nickles and dimes
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