Hi guys,
as some of you know my current project takes me regularly to Detroit - and on this weekend I got back to Canada Phil'sinvitation to vist him in Toronto - a 4 hours ride by car from Detroit.
I took off on early Saturday morning - once again it was a Dodge Charger the rental people had given me - and as I like to travel I was actually looking forward to the 4 hours on Ontario highways. And what I got was an exciting road trip - but not really the excitement I had looked for. Heavy snow and icy roads made driving very difficult. At one point I came over a hump and saw an acccident scene alraedy in some distance. Cars were splattered all over the place, one of them upside down - and one guy stood aside of the road waving heavily at me. It was then that I realized that I wasn't driving on a wet road anymore - but on 100% ice. Okay, there was still some distance so I carefully slowed down - shortly before arriving at the accident scene I was down to a speed of about 20 miles and thought: Cool - this has worked. Then I looked into the rear mirror and what I saw there made me almost sh*t into my pants. A big truck was approaching from behind, trying to break - with the trailer absolute sideways across both lanes. F*ck - he was about to wipe me off the road so I thought it's better I leave the road by myself. I accelerated - hardly had any traction - but managed to get off the road and dumped the car in a big pile of snow - and seconds later that truck skidded past me - phew..... Some friendly souls helped to push the car back on the raod so I could continue my trip.
It was noon when I arrived at Phil's apartment - great to see him back. He took me on a tour around Toronto and in the best CA tradition we started with a visit of a brewery and a beer for lunchtime. We toured the city further - I found Toronto impressive. It's very cosmopolitan, lots of different nations seems to live there - the wide variety of exotic fruits and meats I saw on a local market is a good indicator for that. More beers followed and for safety reasons we abandoned Phil's car (most likely the only one in Ontario with a big DfH sticker on the hood
) - in a parking lot and continued by foot. More beers / bars followed - I'll be able to reconstruct the sequence of events end of month when I will look at the credit card trail we left in my bank statement. Somewhen after midnite Phil's son was so friendly to pick us up in the bar district and brought us back to the apartment. Phil is a great host - that first impression of Toronto was fabulous and I'm looking forward to the next couple of cold one's with him on a field in France in June...
Cheers
Werner
