A few days ago, I walked around the town of Banff and took pictures of infrastructure. I didn’t get a chance to write about it, but I wanted to record some of the interesting things I noticed before I forgot. Or I guess maybe only one thing that I remember: what was on the train. It’s interesting to notice that the trains here carry a lot of wood (both lumber and plywood) and un-odorized liquid propane gas.

Investigating further, one finds out Alberta is actually Canada’s oil powerhouse with the oil sands. There are even a ton of direct flights from Calgary to Dallas. Wood, I would guess. But oil? Who knew Canada was rich with oil? I assume things are going to change between the US and Canada (politically) pretty soon…

More if I remember what I forgot…

Okay, so I’m going to break the rules a little bit and write about something in the past (and even set the date back!): the fact that I’m at the Banff Centre in Canada for an artist residency called Reference Check. That’ll setup the rest of what’s to come on this here blog.

Here’s some pictures of my trip:

The people in Canada are so happy. When I got to the airport, the staff pushing people in wheelchairs didn’t look like zombies like they did in Chicago. Go figure! And everything’s in metric–the rationalism is apparent already. Sigh. I want to move to Canada.