Toronto

I love Canada.

Yes, it's cold in Canada and it now requires a passport, but it's hard not to love them. They're all such cute little liberals, with their socialized health care and utter hate for our current administration. They also have the ability to sell cheese made with raw milk and pretty much every restaurant is vegetarian friendly. Excellent.

In reality, I'm starting to look at cities differently now. With all the moving around, I'm starting to fantasize about settling down someplace. With living in the middle of nowhere, I'm definitely fantasizing about nice cities, with good public transport, tall buildings, interesting neighborhoods, ethnic diversity and lots of good food. Toronto, despite being quite cold, does manage to fit the requirements quite well.

Simon managed to catch a bus to Toronto, since plane flights were out of the question and the weather let up enough that I managed to drive up. It really was only Pennsylvania that was bad for driving; by the time I crossed into Canada there wasn't even snow on the side of the road. We wandered the city a lot and were food tourists. They have a great market and a fabulous Science Museum. Buildings were tall and the CN tower was taller. There's even a castle in the bustling 5 million person metropolis. Public transport is frequent, pervasive, and runs 24 hours. Overall, I really liked Toronto, even though there were times when I thought my ears would fall off. Sometimes I think my ears are going to fall off here, and it doesn't have all the other cool points.

I could see spending more time in Toronto sometime in my future. I just need to start saying "eh" a little more.