Victoria

Some special moments from my two-day trip to the land of the proverbial newly wed and nearly dead.

-About 30 kids sitting at a bus stop, totally bored. When I walked by, one of them put up a sign that said: "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands!" and they all looked at me. I figured, what the hell? Clapped my hands. They all applauded and cheered. What a happy bunch. They must've been art students.

-Sitting in the home of my parent's friends, petting their shaggy, goofy dog until it lay down and fell asleep. All the while in my head all I could think of was Dallas Green's "Hello, I'm in Delaware".

-Meeting a stoner-type from white rock on the ferry. He was eating chocolate cake and we nodded to each other, then he walked over and said hi and we spent the rest of the trip discussing media propaganda, whether global warming was real, and how the world's resources are unfairly distributed. Interesting time.

The world's full of interesting and special moments if you can find 'em.