Friday Five

[metawidget]

Sure, a prompt for some reminiscing from thefridayfive...

1) What's the furthest place you've traveled to in the last 12 months?

Likely picking up chickens from Perth-ish, 75 minutes' drive away.

2) What's the most interesting small town within driving distance?

Wakefield is pretty cool, although it's fallen on hard times since the steam train shut down due to a washout of some of the track. There's Lester B. Pearson's grave, good walking, a train turntable, and lots of good hippie food.

3) What's the coolest tourist attraction in your city?

Being in the capital region there is a lot, but in Hull proper it's probably the Canadian Museum of History, which contains the Children's Museum and an IMAX theatre, built when people thought 70mm movies were a neat idea. It's an impressive building and grounds, and has a huge variety of interesting exhibits including a lot of Indigenous content and parts of buildings brought into the space. It used to be called the Museum of Civilization but the Harper Régime found that too outward-looking or didn't like civilization or something.

4) What was your favorite road trip you took as a kid?

All the New England camping trips kind of blend together, but there was one where we were camping in a lean-to and got on well with our camping neighbours and ate jalapeño chips which left an impression.

5) How often do you feel like you've got to get away?

On some small level, I try to do that daily with a walk, run or bike ride. But I do feel due for a date, a trip, a break out of the routine...

Comments

[blogcutter]

I haven't been following the Friday Five questions but I did recently find this on Pocket - I could definitely have used this during my working life as I was always totally clueless when it came to any kind of networking:

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/5-questions-the-most-interesting-people-will-always-ask-in-conversations?utm_source=pocket-newtab

I too really like Wakefield and I miss the days when you could take a steam train there from the Museum of Science & Tech! On the Ontario side, I really like Pakenham and sugar-bush trips, and really all of the Perth/Lanark area where (pre-pandemic) we used to go on the Thanksgiving weekend studio tour, picking up crafts, fancy soaps, jams, chocolate etc. and lunching at Brooke Valley school...