After the training, I took a train trip to visit Betsy, a Wandering Wheels cyclist I had met in the spring. We toured around Ottawa, Canada’s capital, on rental Bixi bikes. Like D.C., it’s full of embassies and government buildings
(like Parliament)
and strange public art. We had great conversations, like about how yoga and Christianity are not necessarily incompatible.
Between a group of acroyogis from Edmonton and visiting Betsy, I, at the very least, quadrupled my knowledge of Canadian geography. For example, I hadn’t known that from Ottawa, in the province of Ontario, you can simply cross the river into neighboring Quebec.
The Edmonton crew also had a lot to say about beavers, most of which was probably not true. But, speaking of Canadian stereotypes, the very first person I saw after I got off the metro from the airport was rollerblading down the street with a hockey stick!
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