{"id":50177,"date":"2015-04-27T06:51:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T12:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/27\/on-visiting-canada.html"},"modified":"2015-05-06T07:27:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T13:27:01","slug":"on-visiting-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/27\/on-visiting-canada.html","title":{"rendered":"On visiting Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since numerous people (on both sides of the border) asked me, my visit to Calgary, Alberta, last week was … well, a heck of a lot like visiting another state in the US. Heck, Calgary has a lot more in common with Denver than Denver does with, say, Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

That said, there were a few differences.<\/p>\n

1. Weather-wise (and spring-blooming-wise), they're about a month behind us. (Being 900 miles due north accounts for that.)<\/p>\n

2. Poutine (http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poutine<\/a>) is a thing. And a good thing. (People sometimes look askance at poutine — but, honestly, it's first cousin to chili cheese fries, which are hardly beyond the pale, foodwise.)<\/p>\n

3. The locals seemed very enthusiastic about a team called the "Flames." <\/p>\n

4. The highway signage was all very familiar-looking, except that distances and speeds were in metric (as were temperature signs, for that matter).<\/p>\n

5. No American flags, of course. Canadian flags, sure, but a lot fewer of them. The US is a big … flag-crazy.<\/p>\n

That all said, I didn't get to see a lot of Calgary, to be honest — airport, hotel, restaurants around hotel, office, highways in-between, that was the extent of my visit. But it seemed like a nice place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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