Woo-hoo, vacation plans!

[a_t_rain]

Or: On Going West to Get East

Right, so I want to go to the Stratford Festival this year, because the prospect of seeing The Duchess of Malfi and Coriolanus in one day is just ... wow. Up until a couple of days this was just a vague want, though.

I've also always wanted to take the train across North America: get a proper sense of the scope and scale of the continent, and see the Rocky Mountains and the prairies and all the things I have not seen. This, too, has always been a very vague want, the sort of thing where you say "Oh, I mean to do that one of these days" and then forget about it for another year or two.

Well, add those two vague wants together, and throw in the giddiness induced by a new teaching contract and the prospect of a hefty tax refund, plus the realization that I'm not going to be eligible for student-rate tickets much longer ... and somehow I've just ended up with a plane ticket into Vancouver, after which I have nineteen days to find my way to Ontario by one route or another.

Ooh, this is going to be fun...

Comments

[lazy-neutrino.livejournal.com]

Good for you!

[gloryforever.livejournal.com]

Wow. Congratulations. Bring us pictures, please?

[mrs-wolf.livejournal.com]

OMG!!!

***wildly wishes could do the same***

When do you leave? You have to take the train.

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

May seventh :)

[mrs-wolf.livejournal.com]

So soon! I am so jealous. I'm getting antsy and want to travel again, but know I can't. I have to do school!

I've explored the continent quite alot, but never Canada. In fact, the closest I've ever come to even crossing the border is a sailing trip that went over into the Canadian islands in the San Juan when I was small, which is in Canada technically, but you know. Not really.

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

It's a spring thing, I think -- I always get restless and completely unable to focus on anything academic or work-related this time of year.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Have fun! I actually have family in Ontario.

*Sort of wishes Rain had mentioned Baltimore...* ;)

[lorelei-lynn.livejournal.com]

My dad and stepmom took the train through the Canadian Rockies last year and couldn't stop raving about the scenery. Have fun!

[artemisiabrisol.livejournal.com]

Taking a train through BC and the Rockies and Ontario...And Colm Feore's in Coriolanus... you lucky, lucky thing.

[lostcointoss.livejournal.com]

As a life-long resident of Vancouver and volunteer at Bard on the Beach, it is my sworn duty to say, Don't go to Ontario! That's a bad province. It has Toronto and Ottawa, and Toronto has Leaf fans—which is code for the worst people to ever watch hockey, and, you know, breathe—and Ottawa has Stephen Harper, and he eats babies.

Okay, maybe it's not that bad, but for sure, BC is way cooler: we're chill here on the west coats of Canada. We have an ocean. And Whistler, which happens to be the greatest town ever, even if it is run by Intrawest.

No, seriously though, have a wicked trip.
-dark

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

I just Googled "Bard on the Beach" and ... hot damn, Troilus and Cressida! It's too bad that I can't get away later in the summer, but between work and family stuff, I think these are the only three weeks I've got.

[warrioreowyn.livejournal.com]

You're coming here to the West Coast? That's so cool! I'm from Victoria. It really is beautiful up here this time of year - there's flowers everywhere you turn, and the weather's finally warming up a bit.

[tree_and_leaf]

How absolutely spiffing!

Although due to my own ignorance, I was slightly confused as to why you were going to BC on route to Stratford-upon-Avon (who are also having quite a cool Shakespeare festival, involving Patrick Stewart, Harriet Walters, Judi Dench and Ian McKellan - sadly not all in the same play...)

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

After trying to work out how much this is going to cost, I'm almost starting to think that I might as well have gone to the one in England. I swear, the exchange rates were a LOT better the last time I went to Canada...

[mrs-wolf.livejournal.com]

Wow. That sounds amazing. You will write about it, yes?

[anna-in-the-sky.livejournal.com]

Wow, sounds wonderful! Have a great time! I must make travel plans for September myself- then I think I will feel a lot better.

[harriet-wimsey.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds like so much fun! I took the train across Canada with my grandparents on the way to Prince Edward Island a few years ago, and it was great fun.

Hi, by the way. I've seen you around on several journals, and I'm enjoying Correspondence Course, so I'm friending you.

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

Hi, nice to meet you!