Oh Theo.... me too! I wish you would have seen the thread earlier. I would have loved to have met up with you. Funny you should mention the air. That was the first thing I noticed. It kept me awake the first night. I even made the comment to someone in the elevator. I had noticed a lot of people with dry sniffles everytime I travelled the elevator.

I am so sorry you are so unhappy there. I hope you can get out of there soon. It is so barren it is almost spooky. Especially from the airplane. It sickened me to see just how much water is wasted considering there is no natural supply. They even have lush green golf courses. Sick!! That's just so bad on so many levels. Its a big issue in my province.... the pressure to pipe water to the US. Seeing it wasted like that brings it even closer to home for me personally.

Ottawa would be more like New York weather wise I think. I have never been there but I hear the weather can be pretty extreme. Cold wet winters, hot wet summers. Come to southern BC. The place of moderate mild weather most of the year. Clean air and fresh water. We may get a couple of weeks of cold winter and a couple of weeks of hot summer but otherwise it is very mild.

I so wish we would have hooked up. Sounds like we could have talked gardens for hours on end and imagined ourselves somewhere else together. I can't say 'maybe next time' cuz I really can't imagine ever going back there ever again but I can say 'welcome to BC' if you ever venture up this way. Trust me you will have very hard time leaving if you do come for a visit. Mind you there are plenty of folks that can't take the rain. Personally I love my moss and wouldn't give up a drop of it for anything else in the world. The only other places I have lived and loved as much is Switzerland which is very much the same as BC minus the rain. I just can't live without the mountains all around me. Funny too because I have a friend who grew up in the flattest part of the Prairies. She moved to Switzerland to dance with the Basel Ballet Company and she said it took her a long time to adjust to the mountains. She said she felt really clostraphobic and really missed her prairie skies.

I have been taking it slow and easy today. Really appreciative of my blessed surroundings.