VERMONT, CANADA vs. VERMONT, USA

Johnada spent last weekend in Vermont. Before my trip, I discovered that some people wanted Vermont to secede from the U.S. and join Canada as a province. To get to the bottom of this, we got two of Canada's finest writers to give their perspective.

Vermont is Canada
by Johnada
7) They love Hockey.
6) They also love ice fishing.
5) The U.S. border patrol agent going into Vermont was super friendly; this is not the case with any other U.S. BPA's I've come across.
4) They don't have Target.
3) Molson is very popular.
2) There's plenty of French signage.
1) On Sunday afternoon in our hotel room, I watched Curling on the CBC.

Vermont is not Canada
by Johnada
7) They think of Toronto as a cold city.
6) $3.50 for good beer. In a bar!
5) Good Mexican food.
4) Vermont is incredibly proud of beating the British in a war that Canadians are proud of avoiding.
3) Too many hippies (though I suppose Vancouver has got its fair share).
2) The people from Quebec seemed happy to be in Vermont. They would not act like this if Vermont was part of Canada.
1) No Tim Hortons. I know because I looked -Conclusion: Vermont is not Canada.

Totally unrelatedly, here's a picture of a female Hooded Merganser I took -

GONE VERMONTIN'

This weekend Johnada is relocating to Burlington, Vermont. As you all no doubt know, Vermont is the home state of America's 26th greatest President, Chester A. Arthur. It is also a great place to get maple syrup, though there's not shortage of that in Canada. In fact Vermont and Canada have so many similarities that some people think it should be Canada's 11th Province. I'll let you know what I think about that when I return, though I'm going to have to eat some Tim Horton's, drink $11 six backs of beer and listen to see if people pronounce process with a long "O" in Vermont before I join the campaign.

If you're feeling lonely, go see Zhu's Spider, Gary's Pink Dolphin (that sounds bad, doesn't it?), JT's 2007 Jams (a little late?), Aiglee's new apartment, Theresa's child-rearing "issues", and Mr. McQueen's Head.

Also, I haven't yet heard from Mr. Tim Nugent (see below), so I'm hoping he contacts me soon. I see that my Manteno, MN movement is a little slow out of the gate, but I'm nothing if not patient. (Actually, I'm not patient at all.)