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#183004 - 09/24/09 12:14 AM Re: I Need Help With Toronto, Canada. [Re: SwampDonkey]
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Well.....

I meet with the company tomorrow for the final $$$$$$$ talks and actual start date. I have been told I could leave out tomorrow, but I won't be ready that fast. I figure T-10 days and counting.
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#183140 - 09/25/09 11:20 AM Re: I Need Help With Toronto, Canada. [Re: Desperado]
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It is on, departure date pending.

Nice that I will get fall and winter. I can ease into this cold stuff.
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#183145 - 09/25/09 12:03 PM Re: I Need Help With Toronto, Canada. [Re: Desperado]
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LOL... ease into cold. LOL!

Its going to be cold then it'll just get colder!
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#183216 - 09/26/09 01:58 AM Re: I Need Help With Toronto, Canada. [Re: dougwalkabout]
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Originally Posted By: dougwalkabout
Mike, you caught me in a mellow moment. Must have been the Italian brandy.

If you need some classic T.O. bashing, a comment or two about dear old Toronto the Good, self-appointed centre of the universe, I can probably oblige.

"Hi, I see you're from Toronto. Can I borrow a cup of smug?"

grin


I have been on the phone with 8 - 10 different folks in the GTA (see I haven't even left yet, but I am getting the slang), and all have been very pleasant......

Then today I got my first free "Cup of Smug". I now see what you were talking about. I haven't even started the trip, and I already feel accepted. grin grin
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#183233 - 09/26/09 01:11 PM Re: I Need Help With Toronto, Canada. [Re: Desperado]
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Loc: Muskoka
Hmmm, an awful lot of the smug seems to be from people not in TO.

I grew up in the area just north of the city and worked around Toronto and the rest of southern Ontario for years.
If you find yourself having a hard time remembering the shape of southern Ontario turn your map so west is north and look at it as a circus elephant.
Windsor/Detroit is at the tip of the trunk, Sarnia is the top of the ear, Niagra Falls/Buffalo is a front toe, Orillia is a back foot, and Owen Sound is the elephant's a-hole.

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#183236 - 09/26/09 02:01 PM Re: I Need Help With Toronto, Canada. [Re: scafool]
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Scafool...

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love it!
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#183704 - 09/30/09 12:05 PM Re: I Need Help With Toronto, Canada. LISTS!!! [Re: Kris]
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Okay
I have now got my lists together..

I am operating on several assumptions:

1) These kits are for a "Best Case/Worst Case" type situation.
2) Best case is snowed in at a cell site that has a shelter.
3) Worst case is I goon it and spend the night in a ditch in my truck.
4) I will be properly dressed for a Texan in an Ontario Winter (every article of clothing I own)
5) I will have an overnight bag with spare clothes/toiletries if I have to get a hotel room for a night on the road.
6) I would not be leaving my truck unless circumstances require it. Then I would repack to lighten load. (Yeah, it's heavy)
7) Items marked with $$$$ are to be purchased only if going to rural/remote areas. (I would love to have them already, but money is tight.)
8) Many items I already own, but they are needed for home, so I will be buying dedicated travel items.
9) Some items are marked with colors, and there is a key on each page.

Constructive comments now welcome.......


Attachments
Ontario Trip Workbook Personal 1.pdf (4239 downloads)
Ontario Trip Workbook Vehicle.pdf (4427 downloads)



Edited by Desperado (09/30/09 12:26 PM)
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#183708 - 09/30/09 12:40 PM Re: I Need Help With Toronto, Canada. LISTS!!! [Re: Desperado]
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Loc: Muskoka
The windshield ice scraper is a needed item.
You will be using it if you are in Canada in the winter.

You are unlikely to find a use for the machete in Ontario.

Only bring the guns if you are buying hunting licences and intend to go hunting.

For a stranger into the area a GPS with mapping might be a good idea indeed.

If you get here one of the tricks local driver use is a small bag of dry sand or granular kitty litter for under the wheels if you get stuck on ice. I like coarse sand instead of litter.

You might want an extension cord to plug your truck in with.
You might make it through the winter without needing to use your block heaters but motors start easier if they are warmed first.
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#183713 - 09/30/09 01:34 PM Re: I Need Help With Toronto, Canada. LISTS!!! [Re: scafool]
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Originally Posted By: scafool
The windshield ice scraper is a needed item.
You will be using it if you are in Canada in the winter.

Ice Scraper/Snow Brush will be picked up in Canada. Those sold in Texas are a joke!

You are unlikely to find a use for the machete in Ontario.

Less a machete, more a really big knife/chisel/pry-bar. Sometimes better than a hatchet Ontario SP8

Only bring the guns if you are buying hunting licences and intend to go hunting.

Maybe more trouble than it is worth

For a stranger into the area a GPS with mapping might be a good idea indeed.

Yep

If you get here one of the tricks local driver use is a small bag of dry sand or granular kitty litter for under the wheels if you get stuck on ice. I like coarse sand instead of litter.

Will have home made sandbags created from truck tire tubes.

You might want an extension cord to plug your truck in with.

Should have listed, but yeah I will have several.
You might make it through the winter without needing to use your block heaters but motors start easier if they are warmed first.

Not worth risking the truck starting. It has block heater as standard equipment.


Thanks


Edited by Desperado (09/30/09 01:35 PM)
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#183724 - 09/30/09 02:51 PM Re: I Need Help With Toronto, Canada. LISTS!!! [Re: Desperado]
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I like the bivy idea for a truck kit. I went with the Outdoor Research Alpine Bivy Lightweight, breathable and roomy for a low profile shelter. Any good mummy bag will do inside the bivy. You might also consider a good wool blanket for use inside the truck. This packs a little bigger than the AMK gear, but with a full size p/u you aren't exactly hurting for room.
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