Toronto rules. It’s one of the coolest cities i’ve ever been to and would live there in a second. It’s like New York meets London and the people are Canadian, so they’re cool.

Some dude reading a magazine at gate D3 in the Minneapolis airport.

It’s places like Rotman’s Hat Shop & Haberdashery that only exist in big ass cities like Toronto.The place looked like it had been there forever and i’m sure whoever was running the place probably had some pretty good stories to tell.

I dug how this guy waiting for the bus had the same pose as the model in the bus stop poster.

Streetlights, street signs & streetcars.

Crossing the street.

The Spider manufacturing facility where Ricki & Rudy make by hand the coolest old barber chairs in the world.

It’s 6:00 in the morning and the last thing i was thinking about was reading anything...this guy must have been a “morning person”.

More deicing. I know deicing is a good thing, i just wish it wasn’t one of those things we needed to see happen.

The deicer makes it’s way to the wing of our plane. I sure hoped he was a hell of a lot more awake than i was.

Fig. A.

BUSINESS DORK

FUTURE.

If you really want to find the cool places in a city you have to find them yourself. It never fails...the people in a city recommend to the out of towners where they think they should go for dinner and as far as i’m concerned every time that’s a bad decision. The sushi place people recommended to us sucked...that fancy french resturant sucked...i don’t know what that is all about but it seems people just pick the safest places and think people from out of town will like that best. Luckily Mike and I were able to sneak away for a while and walk the streets with no clue where we were going and happened into this place. It kicked ass. Best place we went to the whole trip. It was a place that was a bar/coffeeshop/dessert stop/resturant and it kicked serious ass. The place was full of students and video game nerds and people coming and going and hanging out and drawing pictures and studying and talking. This was the place. You can keep the fancy 4 star resturants...i’ll take a place that gives me a real feel for the vibe of a city any day over that fancy crap.

People told us about this place and said we needed to go there. I think they meant just go and see the outside circus lights, because we went inside and it’s nothing special, unless you like 3 floors of overpriced crap marketed as a “DEAL!”, and i don’t. So we just stood outside and took in all the fancy lights.

Waiting for the subway train.

One bored and two busy sushi chefs.

Baggage handler / gate agent / ground crew / air traffic controller (Lets just say the Northwest Airlines on the ground presence in Toronto wasn’t something that inspired confidence.)

Watching people walking down Nicollet Mall