Calendar Girl Blog: Training Your Breasts
Three trains and 31 hours later, me and the pups have arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Here's what I've learned.
1. Train stations do not have elevators. Instead, narrow, steep escalators or narrow, steep stairs are provided.(Note to anyone who works at VIA. Escalators, luggage and older folk are a bad mix. By the look of the crowd, you depend on older folks with luggage for your business. Out of respect, it would be great if you would get with the game on the elevator part.)
2. Because of number one, I learned about porters. This after wrestling my stuff on and off two trains. For a mere toonie a bag, a porter will wrestle your bags on and off the train for you.
3. Unless you stay locked in your slightly bigger than your body room for the whole trip, you will meet people. Interesting people. Train people. Like the guy who toured the world as the lead guitarist for Helix, a 70/80's Canadian hard rock band. Or the gaggle of nuns. Apparently Farley Mowat too. But he came out a week earlier.
4. Everyone I met knows more than one person with breast cancer. Including the porter.
5. Trains are very jiggley.
Calendar Girl is getting settled (trying not to rock back and forth) in her new world at the Y prior to winding up for the World Conference on Breast Cancer.
Calendar Girl
Here's what I've learned.
1. Train stations do not have elevators. Instead, narrow, steep escalators or narrow, steep stairs are provided.(Note to anyone who works at VIA. Escalators, luggage and older folk are a bad mix. By the look of the crowd, you depend on older folks with luggage for your business. Out of respect, it would be great if you would get with the game on the elevator part.)
2. Because of number one, I learned about porters. This after wrestling my stuff on and off two trains. For a mere toonie a bag, a porter will wrestle your bags on and off the train for you.
3. Unless you stay locked in your slightly bigger than your body room for the whole trip, you will meet people. Interesting people. Train people. Like the guy who toured the world as the lead guitarist for Helix, a 70/80's Canadian hard rock band. Or the gaggle of nuns. Apparently Farley Mowat too. But he came out a week earlier.
4. Everyone I met knows more than one person with breast cancer. Including the porter.
5. Trains are very jiggley.
Calendar Girl is getting settled (trying not to rock back and forth) in her new world at the Y prior to winding up for the World Conference on Breast Cancer.
Calendar Girl
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