In the USA

We finished our visit to Regina yesterday. Lots of visiting and seeing family and friends. Regina has certainly expanded in the last few years. The east end of the city is inundated with strip malls and big box stores. If you want it, you can find it there.

I have to stop taking the 6 am flights. They kill me. First, I have to get up early (4 am or something crazy like that), then I keep waking up throughout the night and have the worst sleep. The flight from Denver to Sacramento was the tightest flight I have been on in the last few years, and I have flown a few times this past year. :-) The Denver airport was surprisingly crowded. It is one of the hub Airports for United Airlines, so it gets a lot of traffic.

Another thing I noticed while in Saskatchewan and California is that Internet providers don't have download quotas. This was a surprise to me, after experiencing Australian militant enforcement of download quotas. In Sask. and California, the way they charge you is by how fast your connection is. In Saskatchewan, the local cable provider offers a 25Mbps connection for $88 per month, and has just now introduced a 100Mbps connection for $250 per month. Amazing! Almost makes me move back to Saskatoon. Just joking! :-)

Well, I will go and try enjoy the 4th of July!