Last week I went on a road trip. It was pretty grim. First a quick drive down the 401, which is plastered with monster warehouses, mass housing, industry, and powerlines all the way to Toronto. I’ve always found this one of the grimmest stretches of highway on earth, but I imagine it’s much the same outside every major city.
Things got foggy after Toronto. Luckily traffic wasn’t bad.
After a night’s stopover just outside Ottawa, I took the train back home, leaving from the aptly named Fallowfield station.
As you can see, I wasn’t blessed by a lot of sun on this trip. But the grey skies fit my mood. I’ve learned my lesson and will aspire to never leave home again.
Alex Good 
I fully approve that lesson you learned. If more people would learn it, the world would be, while not necessarily a better place, at least a less chaotic place.
I learned this lesson good between my road trip around the perimeter of Newfoundland and then my 10day stay in Israel back in the day. After my Grandparent’s died, I haven’t left the US and I’m working really hard to not leave my State. Family circumstances make that one unavoidable, but I can wait until it’s an emergency!
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Darn right! Plus it’s getting so even the tourist spots don’t like tourists. Everybody should stay home!
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I can’t help wonder why you would drive down to Ottawa, stay a night then catch a train home? Did you abandon your car? How were you driving and taking photos??
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Hahaha! You’re thinking English-style, where the driver is on that side of the car! I was in the passenger seat when those pictures were taken. And it wasn’t my car, it was a rental (I don’t have a car). See it all makes sense.
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Rentals come with chaufeurs there? Cool! Why didn’t s/he drive you back? So many questions!
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Because she lives in Ottawa!
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Oh, so the hanging hardens of babylon were’s in bloom for you? The wildebeastes now sweeping majestically across the plain? Not everything can be lovely to look at, that’s why some places are tourist traps and some aren’t. Buck up and stop complaining, if I was shooting a Radiohead video, these shots would be ideal.
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Just a bit of sun and greenery would have been nice. This felt like I imagine the M8 looks like most days. No need for wild beasties or Thom Yorke moaning on the car radio.
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Scoot land is green and verdant. Much nicer. Nobody says the landscape has to be entertaining.
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Huh. I thought that highway was basically just a tunnel running between sound barriers topped with razor wire. The things you learn.
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