Woo-hoo, vacation plans!
Apr. 20th, 2006 05:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
a_t_rainOr: 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...
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...
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Date: 2006-04-21 11:05 am (UTC)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...)
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Date: 2006-04-21 01:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-24 06:34 pm (UTC)