Vancouver ticket booked
My flight is booked and I can now say with certainty that I will be in Vancouver from the 21st of December until the 2nd of January. Hopefully, that span will include a big gathering of friends in North Vancouver, akin to my pre-Oxford departure party. Saturday, December 29th is a plausible date for the event.
Already, nights in Ottawa are developing a chilly edge. By late December, I expect that it will be with the most concentrated of joy that I trade the icy windswept streets of Ontario for the rainy windswept streets of British Columbia.
PS. My planned trip to B.C. was mentioned before.
[Update: 23 October 2007] According to the NativeEnergy carbon calculator, my flights to and from Vancouver will collectively generate 1.761 tonnes of CO2. As with my thesis, I decided to offset the emissions through the capture of methane. While offsets are far from perfect, they are quite probably better than doing nothing.
I was surprised to see that travelling the same distance by train would produce 0.727 tonnes of CO2. While that is 60% lower, we generally think of trains as being really dramatically greener than flying. I suppose the difference is largely that nobody travels very long distances by train.
October 9th, 2007 at 9:11 am
Ottawa is actually best in mid-winter. It may be cold, but it is at least consistently so. And it can be quite beautiful.
At least you won’t miss Winterlude, which is in February.
October 9th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Here is a cool photo of Alcatraz Island, near San Francisco.
October 12th, 2007 at 2:27 am
I look forward to seeing you when you reach Vancouver in December. I shall probably be around for the entire winter break, since I feel too guilty about flying to the UK for the second time this year. Perhaps some adventures can be planned, in your doubtless very busy schedule? In any case, I’ll email you about it when my interchange email account eventually starts working again (it’s been down for 48 hours).
October 23rd, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Perhaps some adventures can be planned, in your doubtless very busy schedule?
Most definitely. You should also be sure to attend the party I am throwing in North Vancouver.
October 24th, 2007 at 7:37 am
[...] From the evening of November 9th until the evening of the 12th, I am going to be in Toronto. While that is mostly for purposes of visiting family, I would also be keen to meet up with friends who will be around then. Six weeks after that, I will be in Vancouver. [...]
December 18th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
The emissions of one passenger on the outward flight from “Ottawa - Hull” to “Vancouver - Vancouver Int’l” create the climate impact of about 950 kg CO2. Including the return trip the emissions amount to about 1900 kg CO2.
December 23rd, 2007 at 2:28 am
[...] It is excellent to have the chance to spend twelve days visiting family and friends, even if the (offset) greenhouse gas emissions from the flight are a source of guilt and evidence of [...]