Day 1 in Banff - nextMEDIA Conference June 6, 2008
Yesterday I spent the day driving up to Banff for the nextMEDIA conference with Dario - and when I say all day I really do mean all day, we spent at least 10 hours in the car driving up here. But it was worth it, BC is beautiful, actually that word does not describe it, breathtaking is a far better adjective. The only downside of the drive, was the constant rain. And!!! I finally got to see the Rockies from below 10,000 feet. They are simply awesome - although I was a bit disappointed that there wasn’t a sign saying that we’d entered the mountain range. I guess that the big swath of mountains should have been enough of a hint though.
I noticed something on the drive up here. People in BC are really bad at naming things. Sometimes they were just boring, used or kinda stupid and other times I’m not quite sure how they missed the innuendo that went along with their name. We had The Golden Rim, Skunk Cabbage Trail - OK I seem to have forgotten most of them after a nice full nights sleep - but, I’ll catch and write them down on the way down so that I can update this. Although, my favorite was a billboard for a medieval theme park - the sign read “2 Adventures, 1 Stop”. Dario and I spent a good 5 min giggling over that one (if you don’t know what I’m referring to, I will not submit you to it, but it involves a couple of girls and a cup).
I’ll update this post tonight once the days festivitites have ceased. I now must find some coffee.
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