Broke VIA

[silverwind126]

As my mother has mentioned many times that she'd enjoy going on the trans-Canada rail trip thingy, I decided to alieviate my boredom by playing on their website. The conclusion? Even with their "Senior companion is FREE" promotion, it's insanely expensive. Probably not so much once you factor in the prices are in Canadian dollars, and that you'd

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[rjb182]

The Canadian and US dollars had just about pulled even in value last time I looked, so I don't think the conversion rate's gonna help them much... you'd better get to work on the rich and famous thing. ;-)

[silverwind126]

*sigh*

It's never easy. :p

[silverwind126]

Yeah, I looked at the pictures and went "Oh, well, Mom can sleep on the bottom bed, and Dad can...climb...teeheehehehehehehehe".

Besides, can you picture the poor people who spent boatloads of money for their nice trip and then get Mr. Snorezini sleeping in the next room over?

[prolog]

Canadian dollar is par.

It's expensive.

[silverwind126]

I liked it better when the exchange rate was in the US's favor. It gave me an excuse to go to Vancouver. :p

My parents are still somewhat stuck in the mentality of when a US$ would net about 1.5 CAD...