A Million Miles In A Thousand Years

It was a blinding snow storm.  At least it looked blinding to me as blackness was all I saw through the window of the very small prop job that bounced me from Ottawa to Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.  But as we descended below the clouds, about 200 ft or so, I could see the ground below and the snow.  Snow falling like, well, like it was a blinding snow storm.  The plan started to pitch, bounce and yaw, I could see that the nose of the airplane was not pointed in the same direction as I felt the plan was traveling which confirmed the feeling in my stomach that we were flying sideways.  All of this concerned me to the point that I thought a crash was imminent, so I assumed the crash position, you know the head down, arms around your knees.  I went down quickly and noticed as I did that the man seated next to me did not appear to move.  I glanced up at him from my position and sure enough he had not moved.  I sat up and said to him that it was going to be a rough landing.  He grunted and tried to sit further away from me, which was difficult because the seats were so small and our seat belts were pulled tight.  He tried anyway as was evident by his exaggerated leaning into the isle.  The landing was in fact the smoothest landing I have ever felt.  In all honesty I did not even feel the wheels touch the runway.  But this could have also been do to the 12" of snow that had fallen since 1 o'clock that afternoon.  Yep, 12" and more in some places.

What a week in New Brunswick, Canada.  I will be blogging about this for a time, so if this bores you too terribly just look at the title.  I will be using the same title in each blog about Canada.

It was 15 shows in 7 days.  I was scheduled for 5 shows on Thursday of last week.  It was great, but it has been a long time since I did 5 shows in the same day.  3 were at Woodstock middle school, and then 2 at Cantebury, about 30 minutes outside of Woodstock.  I would do it again with out thinking, actually, you have to do something like that without thinking because if you thought about it, you wouldn't do it.

To all my friends in the maritime, I love you and thank you for allowing me the opportunity to come to your beautiful province and grow.