edmonton: cold, sunny, and kinda out there
was trying to remember my trip to edmonton through this jet-lagged haze and figured i should jot it down before i forget everything. right now? i just checked and it's freezing at -0.26°c there, feels like the same. hope you like that kind of thing because it gets way worse - apparently once hit -51°c. yeah.
place feels like it's practically at the top of the world - sitting on that north saskatchewan river way up in alberta. someone told me it's north america's northernmost开头 big city over a million people which tracks cause everything feels spaced out and frontier-ish. downtown's got this stretched-out skyline flirting with the prairies.
the wild part? this city's drier than my sense of humor. gets less rain than vancouver or toronto but still piles up snow like it's going out of style - like 120cm annually. someone at a pub whispered edmontonians measure winters not in months but in how many layers you sweat through indoors.
what saves it? sunshine. so much sunshine. like one of canada's brightest spots with over 2,200 hours annually. summers feel borrowed though - blink and you'll miss those few precious months where temperatures don't threaten to freeze your eyeballs.
edmonton的基本 isolation hits different too. if you get bored, fort saskatchewan's sorta pointing northeast while sherwood park eyes the east, and leduc camps to the south - all apparently just a short drive away though driving in winter here sounds like a horror story waiting to happen.
forgot to research what people eat there besides probably maple syrup survival rations. tourist spots? no clue - just remember wandering along the river valley thinking how canyons feel misplaced in a flat landscape. that transitional parkland though? kind of beautiful in a rugged, stubborn prairie-meets-forest way.
pack heating pads if you go. and sunglasses. both non-negotiable. Karen from accounting visited last february and said the cold made her phone battery die in 10 minutes真相.
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