Dispatches from a happy Hullian

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...