That was really cool, and great to put a face to a name. I loved swapping the stories - thank you for organizing this, Trans_Maro!
Got lost on the way back, but found that same gas station, and then got lost again after that. I've sure forgotten how to get around in these parts.
Trans_Maro wrote: Nice meeting you guys. I feel kinda normal again.
If I make you feel normal, you should worry haha. ...or maybe I should....
I've been in Vancouver since Sunday afternoon. It is now Tuesday afternoon. I have yet to turn my windshield wipers off. How do you people survive here?
In reply to DrBoost:
You get used to it after a decade or three.
My fondness for Vancouver uses the other side of the number line.
Oh sure, as far as cities go, it's lovely. And when the sun does come out (for a couple weeks in the summer), it is gorgeous.
But the rain.....
I moved to Raincouver in '94, from Armstrong BC. Folks said "you're going to hate the rain" and I didn't believe them. In the Okanagan Valley, it'll be STINKING hot for an entire week, then a 1 hour thunderstorm will blast through (leaving a wonderful smell of "fresh") and be gone for another week. I loved rain.
Not so, in Vancouver.
I had moved to start BCIT in September. By mid Sept it started raining. By late Sept I bought my first ever umbrella. I didn't own one before. I was soon to learn they actually wore out. I think the rain let up by May.
Windshields wear out, from the wipers. Holy crap.
Laundry: Does. Not. Dry. Even on a sunny day.
Moss will grow on a car that sees regular use.
Everything smells of mildew. Always.
First autocross of the season was always a Biblical downpour. I didn't even take the R's off, I just drove home on them, in the rain, poured a hot bath, peeled off the soaking wet everything, and lay in the tub for the rest of the day just to warm up.
By the time I moved away, I hated Vancouver so bad (for so, so many reasons), that if I died I wanted to be buried in "not there."
The family and I concluded our trip and left Vancouver this morning. By Merritt, the skies were essentially dry, and once back home in Kelowna (the desert of Canada), I did some yard work without a jacket, hat, gumboots, or umbrella. My kids commented on how much they had hated the rain.
Vancouver is NOT representative of BC, though "those people" won't admit it - they don't always get out enough to discover what this VAST province has to offer. It's their own little bubble there. "We's all jest a buncha hicks elsewhere."
I would rather slit both my wrists with running, flaming, chainsaws, than have to move back.
It was nice to spend time with the Brother-In-Law, and very cool meeting up with you fellers (and Mrs. Trans_Maro), but I'm so glad to be back home. Where I have to slice the baked/melted wipers off the windshield at the end of September.
Oh crap. I'm ranting again.....
This winter has been the worst. I've had enough of the rain.
This time last year the sun was shining and the cherry trees were in bloom.
I think I'm growing webbed feet.
We've got cherry blossoms in Victoria already but yeah, there were actual flowers blooming at the end of February last year. This winter's been E36 M3.
DrBoost wrote: [...] How do you people survive here?
To be fair, this is exactly how I feel when I visit my parents in Ontario mid-summer and it's 40 degrees @ 100% humidity and you have to machete through the mosquitos when you go outside.
Jay wrote:DrBoost wrote: [...] How do you people survive here?To be fair, this is exactly how I feel when I visit my parents in Ontario mid-summer and it's 40 degrees @ 100% humidity and you have to machete through the mosquitos when you go outside.
Yeah, I totally get that. The summers can be terrible. And with the warm winter we'be had, I'm afraid the mosquitoes will carry small children and dogs away.
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