Episode CXI: Escaping Thanksgiving in Canada
This Thanksgiving I rekindled a personal tradition and used the break from school as an excuse to go on a road-trip. This time I brought my lovely wife along with me, and we set our sights on a foreign country (where, as it turns out, they had no idea Thanksgiving was going on [but they did know all about Black Friday.]) En route to Canada, we stopped at a number of places in upstate and western New York, including Saratoga National Park, location of the Battles of Saratoga during the American Revolutionary War, and a major turning point in the history of the country. Despite the historical import of the battlefield, Meg's favorite part of the experience was the fact that there were literally hundreds of deer grazing on park land, and my favorite part was that I got to imitate Benedict Arnold (still an 'American' at this point) turncoating. We next stopped at nearby Saratoga Springs, which (among other things) has real life actual spring water spouting out o...