answers for question month III
Mar. 10th, 2011 04:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thoreauNot really a question per se, but a 'tell me about' I believe you once mentioned spending time in Calgary. I'd like to hear more about it!
I dated a cowboy for a little while that lived in Calgary. For the same reason I loved Boise (I lived in Boise Idaho from 1999-2006) - I love Calgary for it's wide open spaces - and it's closeness to some of the most spectacular mountain country the world has to offer.
Calgary is like Dallas - only 1500 miles north. Colder than you could imagine in the winter time. I've always viewed Calgary as the "jumping off point" - not necessarily as a destination in and of itself. (I say the same thing about Houston when I visit my brother - not somewhere I'd purposely end up - but somewhere thats an ends to a means) I have a gigantic romantic hardon for the Canadian Rockies and the American Sawtooth Mountains.
I held on for a very long time for the romantic idea I'd meet someone I could live in a small town with in the mountains and find happiness. Trouble is - that rural places like Calgary and Boise - are also the antipathy of my personal political leanings. Never have I seen more conservative queers in my whole life. People so scared to be out in even the most rudimentary ways. While I liked the cowboy in Calgary - he couldn't be out - and thats not all that romantic. I've tried my best to find the outdoors opportunities (lots of biking!) here in California and find that there is lots of beautiful nature right outside my back door if I just go looking for it.
Calgary is like Dallas - only 1500 miles north. Colder than you could imagine in the winter time. I've always viewed Calgary as the "jumping off point" - not necessarily as a destination in and of itself. (I say the same thing about Houston when I visit my brother - not somewhere I'd purposely end up - but somewhere thats an ends to a means) I have a gigantic romantic hardon for the Canadian Rockies and the American Sawtooth Mountains.
I held on for a very long time for the romantic idea I'd meet someone I could live in a small town with in the mountains and find happiness. Trouble is - that rural places like Calgary and Boise - are also the antipathy of my personal political leanings. Never have I seen more conservative queers in my whole life. People so scared to be out in even the most rudimentary ways. While I liked the cowboy in Calgary - he couldn't be out - and thats not all that romantic. I've tried my best to find the outdoors opportunities (lots of biking!) here in California and find that there is lots of beautiful nature right outside my back door if I just go looking for it.
