around the city

the itch

I get traveler's itch pretty easy. I know, it sounds like some infestuous disease that you pick up by walking barefoot in Mexico... but it's not. It's the deep desire to get on a plane and explore a new city or country... on a regular basis.

I have a list of cities I want to visit at some point. Among them are the the more common of Paris, Madrid and Venice but I also want to truly explore Buenos Aires, Lima, Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, Dubai, Mexico City, Habana, Mumbai, Sydney... the list truly does go on for a while. I also want to revisit Montevideo with a good camera and take pictures that show the world the amazingness of this "undiscovered" city. It's an incredible place and I really want to go back one day.

Just to make myself whine a little more, last night I went through and found amazing pictures of all these cities and made them my pc screensaver...

How amazing would it be to have a backpack, a camera and an ipod (of course you need to have tuneage on a trip like this) and just travel the world??

Montréal... je t'aime

By 11:00 this morning I saw two men doing their business along overpass walls, one police chase and at least 8 cops in the metros fully decked out in bullet-proof vests with the clubs. Oddly enough, all this fueled my love for the city. I grew up in the country and have desired to live in an apartment building my whole life; I used to turn my house into a high-rise downtown every chance I got.

Driving by Montréal last night I was looking at the horizon of lights that beaconed from the downtown core and I was mesmerized by it. What is it I love about the city? I think it's the diversity, the life, the plethora of cultures (I get 4 points for using 'plethora') and the uncertainty of what's around the corner.

Tonight there was a huge snowstorm and it seemed that although there were ambulances flying by, there was a sort of calm in the streets. There were couples walking along Cresent Street window shopping, kids playing out in the sidewalk slush and teenagers whipping snowballs at eachother from behind restaurant signs.

As Jason Mraz was blaring from the speakers, I had a smile plastered on my face as I cruised by the Hard Rock Cafe, Starbucks and past the Bell Centre...

splash

I love swimming. I would go everyday it if was affordable in the middle of the woods... so tomorrow I'm going swimming and I'm VERY much looking forward to it. Yay for diving into pools!

breath-taking

Today while sifting through a large amount of stock photos online, I got shivers when I saw this one go by. Incredible.