I'm ready to scream.

Today I reached my breaking point.
The number of times I've been walking around this city and wished I had my camera is innumerable.

Today, As I walked from the Train Station to the bus stop I noticed a huge gleaming white pyramid on the horizon. I stared against the burning in my eyes trying to see what the hell it was.
As I walked closer to the bus stop a large pine tree partially blocked the sun from my view.
Suddenly a huge, completely snow covered mountain took form.. and as I squinted row upon row of completely snow covered mountains to shape.

I stood in awe at the sight before me.
Being from a place that has a complete lack of absolutely massive mountains, this first sight was incredible and simply awe inspiring.

But Alas, my Camera sits back home, safe and sound collecting dust, causing me to curse everytime I see something that needs capture.

I suppose I could alway just buy another. But that would involve me spending some money :)

I'm Officially a Commuter.

It's a whole different story here. I remember during highschool, most days I'd get home by riding the same bus on the same route. Route 12 back home is much different than here.

Today, after a 10 minute bus ride I jumped on the C-train.
So cool :)
While it was like what I imagine riding on a jam packed cattle car would be like, I was zipping through the city at nigh 100 kph staring out the window at more cars than I could count. Cars cars everywhere, bumper to bumper, a weird brown haze apparent in the headlights. The C-train whipped me away from the chaos of a crazy downtown core and our toward my quiet little suburb.
I'd been braced for a 50 mins commute. It turned out to be less than 25.

Again.. so cool.
I'm beginning to graduate into the league of my fellow big city commuter friends...
amazing what a well thought out public transit system can do

Calgary HO!

Calgary isn't exactly what I thought it would be. It's hardly the cold concrete jungle I was told it would be. Huge mountains linger in the distance, inviting a future weekend trip while endless trails with lush greenery and pure glacier fed rivers flow through the city.

It's a bit much to take in as of yet, the city is much more massive that I thought...
Hard to believe it's 6 hours flight away from home..

Work starts tomorrow and it holds the promise Helicopter trips to the artic, Driving all over alberta, maybe Sask as well... it also demands that I drop my clutch and shift gears from vacation mode to 10 hour (impress the boss and everyone else) workday mode.

August has been action packed. After vacationing in Houston, Hitting Gros Morne national park and climbing one of the greatest mountains the island has to offer, I've been sent in a time machine to a place where the sun hasn't even yet begun to set while my body screams for sleep.

I guess I better blow the dust of my office clothess; time to get the ironing board out.