1/27/09

I am somewhere in my home state with my girlfriend of one year. I find on a map a group of mountains in Quebec, near Quebec City and one of the great lakes. They reach 3800 meters and there is a city below them. She says they are private. The information about them says that it can remain at a temperature of -140 oC in the summer there.

1/25/09

I am on a family vacation on the West coast. We (my family and I) are on an 1-mile long island only accessable by boat. I go on a hike alone where there are supposed to be bears. There is a tree with a 20' high stump platform next to it. The main tree is at least 15 ties this height. There is a view from the platform, and to climb down, I must swing from thin aspen trees. There is a woman at the bottom who says her dad made the platform by cutting it. This seems wrong, but the tree is ok.
There is a hike to the beach. Many people are there. It is warm, and I stand a while staring at the surf. Something is swimming to the beach. The head appears, then as it gets out, I see it's a big Brown bear. There are two more that follow, and the last one is especially big. They are very majestic. As soon as they are a ways inland from the beach, everyone starts running after them. I walk behind them. There are more bears on the trail out. I have a small gun in a coat pocket, and a bullet in another- but there is no threat great enough to warrant their use. What are they for?
I am sitting around, being lazy, while my sister is working harder. It turns out she has been using my bank account. We do not speak.