Category: World Tour

It’s raining right now. In Seattle. I know, so unexpected. Today, I woke up after sleeping through everyone’s morning routine (I’m staying with Holli Margell, and it was a school day for her kids) (also, I’m sleeping on the couch, so everyone went past me to get to the kitchen. Ear plugs are the best things ever). I sort of woke up ish enough a few times to hear things happening and briefly wonder if I would wake up completely

A few years ago, I went to visit relatives in China (they’re not Chinese, they just live there) and I remember having a weird time adjusting my internal compass. What I mean by this is: I’ll have a sense that I’m in <this place> in the world (usually Alberta, seeing as that’s where I’ve lived most of my life), that there’s this radius aren’t me of <these surroundings> and that I’m oriented on <this part> of the globe. The feeling

Yesterday was my first day of my grand world tour (wherein I travel the world to see friends, experience new things, and occasionally sign books) (the books thing really is occasional- I’m not famous enough for an actual global book tour) (yet *waggles eyebrows*), and that first day started at 5:25pm, when the Greyhound bus took me out of Edmonton. The two most interesting things that happened were that I had to switch buses at Calgary, and that I slept