Camping out in downtown Vancouver (aka the Hollywood North Annex) for a little while.

Beautiful city if you ever get the chance.  Lots to do, sea breezes off the water, friendly people, thriving immigrant communities from seemingly half the planet, killer food and coffee, good transport, and a government which for all its faults remains fairly unriddled with buffoons who confuse  violence with vision.

Getting pricey for Americans, though, thanks to the way running up debt tends to run down the dollar.  (Half a trillion thrown into war, then the TV news anchors are shocked when the greenback declines.  Yeesh.)

When I was in college, my buddy Phil and I used to take roadies up to Toronto, change our money, buy stuff, change our money back, and still have surprising amounts of our original cash.  Such a deal.

Not no more.  At this moment, C$1 = US$1.03.  And climbing (as it will likely continue to do).  So Canadians are now coming to the US for bargain sprees.

I can already imagine a bunch of Canadian college kids heading south for the weekend, laughing at our quaint monochrome currency without any ducks, queens, or Inuit carvings on it.

I wonder how much farther the Bushpeso will fall.