Over the past few years, I have been making a concerted effort to explore more of Canada, America’s hat. Edmonton has always seemed like an interesting, blue-collar oil town that I wanted to visit. When I was in Calgary in 2024, I couldn’t fit it into my itinerary. This time around, though, it was a perfect stopover destination on the way further north. I didn’t get much done apart from working. I had tried to get NHL hockey tickets and even decided to invest in some first-row, against-the-glass seats in hopes of using my new camera to catch high-speed action shots. Unfortunately, when I tried to purchase the tickets online, there was an error with the Ticketmaster checkout process that I didn’t realize until game night, a few days later. I had another ticket fiasco, too! I found an orchestra playing Star Wars music in Edmonton, so I bought tickets. In my excitement to secure them, I overlooked that the date was January 11, not December 11. I had bought tickets for the wrong month. The owner of my Airbnb rental was not as appreciative as I would have been if someone had gifted me free Star Wars tickets 6 […]
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