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Air Canada does it again

Air Canada lost my luggage this week. Boy do they suck.

Since they no longer serve meals, here’s the dinner I bought at the airport as I was seething.

On Tuesday, a computer crashed in Halifax which cancelled several flights east. I got stuck at Toronto Pearson which is apparently the worst place to lose your luggage. [...]

NEW BRUNSWICK: Moose and McDonald’s

You’ll never fall asleep driving along New Brunswick‘s highways. For one, there are gorgeous fall colours to keep you company on a sunny day. And two, the fear of slamming into a moose is constantly drilled into your head with these signs.

Moose make tasty roasts. But they’re also really really big and dark. Few [...]

TRAVEL: Air Crappy

I promise this will be my last Air Canada rant. I have the kind of personality that can easily be consumed by the airline’s amazing ability to offer awful service, so I have to set some limits.

Today, I checked an oversized framed painting onto a flight from Vancouver. At the counter, the agent said, “Oh, [...]

SILK ROAD TOUR: 50 Chinese people and one white guy

I suppose I should’ve posted this from the get-go. Here’s a map of our trip. From Beijing to the Silk Road then south to Shanghai at the end. (Thanks to my sister for that graphic. She’s a professional for hire.)

In our group was me, my sister, our boyfriends, our parents — and 45 Chinese [...]

JAPAN AIR LINES: Airplane food of the gods

Canada is a fabulous country for hockey, donuts and yes it’s true, basic human pleasantness. But if we were judged on our national airline, we’d be seen as a cranky bunch of cheapskates.

Air Canada has officially scrapped any kind of meal service for North American travel — and now charges $2 Can for those flat [...]

CHINA: Journeys by train

Train travel is one of the cheapest ways to see China. It is also one of the most aggravating.

Lining up on a train platform is the best way to rub shoulders with real Chinese citizens. And it ain’t pretty. I can guarantee you will be shoved, elbowed and stepped on. The driving mentality in any [...]

DUNHUANG: Camels in the morning

I am not a morning person, so waking up at 5:30 to a Chinese breakfast of noodles and rice porridge, then hopping on a double-humped mammal did not enthrall me.

It was also cold in the desert before sunrise and that makes me grumpy too. But the camels shut me up.

After a short bus ride [...]

GAOCHANG: Mush, donkey, mush

My mom brought a big box of disposable surgical masks with her on this trip. I thought that was so uncool and misinformed since SARS is no longer an immediate threat. Once again, her omniscience trumped my ignorance.

The masks weren’t for the SARS. They were for the donkeys.

The only way to reach the ancient [...]

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