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Hello, the internet! I am in the Maritimes - specifically in the lobby of a hotel in Truro, Nova Scotia, where we are sleeping (except for me, yet) on the road between Charlottetown and Halifax (which is not actually only a road but also includes a ferry), and where in the hotel we chose there is internet in the lobby, and so we come back around to where I am and how it is that I am posting from there. It is currently very nearly one in the morning, which for people like Rachel and cola makes it almost nine. I'm not sure this is a time zone I had ever really thought about before this trip.

Here are some facts:

• Food is different. If I ask for a steak, it will be about two levels more cooked than I expect it to be; asking for a medium got me something quite overdone, and a medium rare still hadn't the slightest trace of pink. In each of the two places we've eaten Chinese, the dishes have come on these peculiar, metal, single-legged plates, like candlesticks of food, and the chow mein has not come with noodles.
  
• People here pretty consistantly use 'youse' as the plural for 'you'.
  
• There is something called a 'tidal bore', where in certain towns all the tide comes in at once in a single large wave. I've never yet managed to be awake for it in any place where it happens, but my mother and sister saw it in Moncton, and apparently it lives up to its name.
  
• There have been a surprising and gratifying number of pretty good used book stores. I've bought To Kill A Mockingbird, because Rachel wants me to read it, and something else with that that I forget, and a Cherryh book, and Robin McKinley's Sunshine, which I have, just today, actually begun to read.
  
• There are a lot more things but actually this fact is about how I am sleepy. I think I had better save further accounts for further entries.
  

I miss many of you. Oh, here is a thing: I've totally neglected to place anyone's address within my access for this trip, so I am incapable of sending postcards. If you wish to rectify this, you should e-mail me your address.

Goodnight!