Work On The Road

I'm in San Diego for work. It's ok I guess. I'm not stuck behind a desk all day, which is nice. We're staying at the Holiday Inn Express in Mission Beach. I don't really see what the big deal is about San Diego, though. Besides the beach areas, it's really nothing special in my opinion. I mean sure, the climate is pretty nice. But there's tons of people crammed together into a small space. I guess it's like that with any big city, and apparently I'm not much of a city person. Anyways...here's where we are staying...


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Road Trip

So I found out at work today that I get to drive one of our Stantec trucks to our Buffalo, NY office. From there someone else will then take it the rest of the way to Kitchener, ON, or there-abouts. It won't be too bad I suppose except that I will be by myself. On top of that I will be towing a dynamometer machine. It's this machine that puts a constant amount of stress on the road, and then measures how the road handled that stress. Anyways, it's about the size of a jet-ski, except it weights about 2,000lbs. So hopefully that doesn't slow me down too much. Other than that I think I'll potentially enjoy most of the trip. I'm always up for a good road trip, especially when I get paid to do it! It should take me about three or four days at the most, hopefully. Here's the approximate route I will be taking:



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As it stands, the plan is to spend the first night in the Amarillo, TX and Oklahoma City region. The second night around the St. Louis and Indianapolis region. And the third night in Buffalo. We'll see how the plan pans out. Would be nice to be back home sometime on Thursday.

Canada Pics

The CN Tower.



Home of the Blue Jays.





Seats on the first base line, row 5.



I think the CN Tower looks way cooler at night.

O Canada!

So I went to Canada last week for some work training. Kitchener, Ontario, to be exact. It was rather uneventful. Basically learned about software, yippee! Haha. Anyways, on Thursday a co-worker, Ivan, and I went to Toronto after work to go see a Blue Jays game. It was pretty fun. I had never been to Toronto (at least that I can remember) and it seemed to be really nice. It was hard to tell what the surrounding suburbs were like, as we were only on the freeway. But the downtown area was great. Everything seemed to be newer, or at least well maintained, and it was just clean in general. I've never been to Europe, so take this next comment for what it's worth, but it had a European feel to it in my opinion. Cultural, ya know? In the few hours we were there I saw all sorts of people. We also found a cool little pub after the game where I drank a Heineken and some local Canadian micro brew. This might sound stupid, but I was a little surprised to find that it was actually a city. A city in the sense that it was bigger than I pictured, and it had public transit...a subway and rail service. Unlike *cough* Phoenix *cough, cough* it actually felt like a legitimate city. All Phoenix is is one giant suburb for the most part. We're finally getting some light rail, so we'll see how that works out.

All in all it was a nice quick visit. The Blue Jays won, the weather was nice - sunny but cool, probably low 50's - and the beer was good. Oh yeah, the CN Tower was pretty cool at night, and we swung by Niagara Falls the next day on the way to the airport. I have pictures, but I'm not at home right now. Pictures soon to follow.