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bay of fundy I leave for Nova Scotia on the fourteenth of June and I think that I should have enough to see and do to keep me busy for a week. My itinerary is far from being complete yet, but I do have some idea of what I want to get accomplished while I am there. For pure sightseeing I want a mixture of nature and history. The Bay of Fundy and possibly some whale watching fall into the nature category. As for the other category the museums and buildings of Halifax should provide me enough history with the city celebrating its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary later this year. It has to be over a decade since I was last in Canada, so everything will be new to me. It may not be Europe, but that can wait until next year. Maybe I am naive me, but I just want to see other parts of the world. I just want to be somewhere else for a time. It doesn't have to be exotic either. Perhaps I am trying to make up for lost time, because when I was in college I didn't go anywhere. Many people do their traveling when they are college students, but I just wasn't ready to do it then. I was content being a student. It was enough to meet people from other countries and talk with them. I didn't have to go to their countries to get a new point of view. Now my world has shrunk again and I need expand it. When I mention my upcoming trip, the people I talk with give me some interesting responses. One person said that I should go to Toronto, because they have a good red light district. I'm not quite sure what to do with this information. I mean I know that it has been a while since I had sex, but I don't think that that is the answer for me. A week long stay somewhere else should not result in something that could haunt me the rest of my life. I'm not nervous about being by myself, because I have done it before. Besides it isn't as though I was spending a month in some third world country. I am simply spending some time in Canada, which is probably one of the safest countries in the world. I imagine that most people want to take a vacation with someone that they love, but that spot is vacant at the moment. Actually I can't even think of anyone that I would want to come along with me. I just want to see and do things by myself, because in the past most of the trips have been with my family. Like I said before, I was too poor to travel when I was in college. Then when I got out of college, I was too busy trying to get a career going. Now I have the chance and I am going to take advantage of it. It has been an entertaining week with the Star Wars film in the middle of it. No. Entertaining isn't the right word. Most of the week was a blur for me. I kept losing sleep and I never seemed to recover any of it no matter how hard I tried. I haven't done any reading this week, beyond paging through a computer magazine. The lack of sleep left me dazed and I spent far too much time in front of the television not really seeing what was in front of me. There are times when I wonder what it would be like to live in another country for a year or two. I could get a better idea of how insane a place the United States is to people that do not live here.
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