i recently spent 2 days in waterloo, ontario. not exactly a destination for most, but i was actually en route to buffalo, ny for a wedding, and decided to visit our waterloo office on the way, to make a bit more of a trip of it. who wants to fly across the country for just one night anyway?. i was kinda excited. not because waterloo is known to be an amazing destination or anything, but because ... canada! an exotic, far away land! yes, i grew up in nh, just 2 hours from the border, and i somehow never went to canada when i lived there. and this was before you needed a passport to pass back and forth too. i also went to college in upstate ny, even closer. and yet ... i never visited.