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Archives for January 2012

What the Florida Keys Looks Like

Neat filter on my photos, don’t you think.

I did it at the camera level with my PEN, it’s called “Pop Art”.

Florida has the best mini-putt courses.

The people who built the bridge to the Keys from the mainland, they lived on this little island in 1910.

The really really long bridge is here, the 7 Mile Bridge.

The one they blew up in the Shwartzenager movie , ‘True Lies’.

Manatees are the cutest.

Nickname: Sea Cow.  An un-official mascot of the Keys.  Everybody loves a Manatee.

It’s sad though, when you see them with chewed-up fins and gouges in their backs; they often swim too close too boats.  

It’s not their fault, they’re too dumb to know better.

It’s the kind of place you can still leave your doors unlocked.  

People don’t litter, people are friendly and funny, it’s safe, and all the nature is fiercely protected.

If you get to visit here, don’t be a d-bag.

Differences Between CDN & USA Part 3

Here’s Part One and Part Two

Trailer parks are more popular in the States.

I had an Airstream dream for a while.

The lottery is pushed harder here.

You rarely see machines like this in Canada.

Kerosene is used to heat homes.

I’m definitely in a Southern US Walmart.

Note the little pink one far right.

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Rode the Train Home & I Have Internet Again

Cool, eh?!

It’s the sleeping car alley on an Amtrack train (Amtrack in USA = VIA in CDN).  I gotta say it’s much cheaper down here though; $50 will get you quite far.

Here’s what you can do if there’s two of you:

  1. each buy a ticket
  2. one of you upgrades to a little room for $100
  3. invite the other to ride with them

It was a 10 hour journey.

That’s a very long time to sit still.

It’s amazing really, everything you need in a 3.5′ x 7′ foot room.

Not being sarcastic… there’s people in Japan who live full time in spaces half this size. With everything they own. They make me and my trunk look like pansies.

Japan is on my travel list oh we are so going.

 

Hi hi.

The dining car.

Like I told the guys, “I can’t believe you served me this on a train”.

This was warm.

While on the topic of food, my next new blog is almost ready to be launched, hopefully by the week’s end.

It’s just a little blog, but the name, I know, HA.

 

Lastly, I’m back online.

Going online at a security conference is always risky.  And I don’t know if you’ve ever rebuilt a computer after it’s been compromised, but the time that takes far out-weighs missing a couple days of internetting.  More about that later over at SmartenUpInternet.com.

This is how I’ve been connecting since I arrived January 1… it’s called a MiFi, get it?

It’s a personal internet connection.  We use our phones as HotSpots in Canada to connect.  I love this thing.  I’m using it to blog right now.

Nice to be back online! Nice to be in the same place for two weeks.

I’ll leave you with this photo ahahahahah so many easy jokes.

Have a great Monday and start to your week.