... and so it begins.
Actually, nothing has really begun yet but if I had
to put a date on the decision, I'd probably say it was late last
night.
My wife and I had a conversation that went
something like this:
"Is this
nuts?"
"I dunno. Does it
matter?"
"I guess not. What do you
think?"
"What the hell. Let's do
it."
And so we resolved to move to a
suburb of Edmonton, Canada called Spruce Grove at some point in the second week
of December. The plan right now is to stay with my in-laws through the
holidays and then, providing no one's killed anyone else, to buy a townhouse to
live in while we make preparations for the move to
Vancouver.
Hey, how about some Spruce
Grove "fun facts", kids!
Population:
18,405 (soon to be 18,409)
Incorporated in
1955
Population in 1955:
275
Spruce Grove is home to Alberta's largest
SuperStore (How super!)
Spruce Grove has an
award-winning curbside organics collection programme. (Would that be roadkill
pick-up? What a town.)
Local Newspaper: The
Spruce Grove Examiner. (Not that much fun, but a
fact.)
Spruce Grove's golf course, Links, has
the worlds only snow trap - a particularly difficult
hazard.
Average High Temperature: 73ºF
(summer)
Average Low Temperature: -20ºF
(winter)
So this blog is going to
chronicle my journey from warm and sunny Southern California, home for the last
21 years, all the way north about 2,000 miles to the great arctic land of
Canada.... a country where the women are warm, the beer is cold, and everything
else is frozen solid... eh!
Posted: Tue - September 27, 2005 at 08:28 PM