As you might know I grew up in England. You might also know that England is quite a bit smaller in size than Canada. As a result, some things are “super-sized” here… such as road trips. A long car drive in England is say three hours. A long car drive in Canada is… well, I’m not really sure what Canadians would consider to be long, but for me, I will say six hours or more. That does mean a bit of a mind shift. When I was driving to Toronto this summer, I was really excited to be going. I packed my bags, printed out directions, got up early on Saturday morning and sat behind the wheel of my trusted VW Beetle and then thought, “Am I really going to be here, sitting in the same seat, doing the same activity for the next six hours!” It was quite overwhelming. So what I did was I broke the journey down into two hour chunks and stopped for a cup of tea and to stretch my legs after every two hours of driving. Suddenly, the long, boring journey became fun and enjoyable.
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