Once again in Toronto

Tuesday, November 3rd 2009. I went to Toronto again, this time I took the 1$ megabus, and returned to Montréal by train after a failed attempt to do it by hitchhiking.

This trip was really different from the first one, and far more fun too. I went with a Friend and it was quiet interesting. The thing that was different from the other trips is that we tried couchsurfing for the first time, and this is what made it amazing. We stayed at the SHAH (not the Shah you know as a persian king, but the Super Happy Awesome House). It's a big house, where we were couchsurfing for 3 nights, we met there many travelers, most of them were French. we hang out all night long, they showed us some awesome places I like to call it the cultural side of Toronto which is really different from the Toronto downtown where there's nothing interesting but tall buildings, and Tim hortons' in every bloc. Among those tall buildings and skyscrapers there's the CN tower. I went up to the skypod, which is the highest observation spot in the world, cost me around $30 but it was worth it.
We were planning to go visit niagara falls, our 1$ bus was leaving at 8pm and we were too lazy to wake up at 7am. No need to rush in holydays! We decided to go the next day, but again, we woke up really late and we didn't have time to hitchhike our way to Niagara.

Saturday, I was feeling a bit sick, so we started hitchiking back to Montréal, everything went well til we got to Cobourg, ON. It was like a black hole, we were stuck there and the village sucked hard. I was feeling worst and worst.... I was sweating and coughing all night long. I spent the night there, and sort of slept for a few hours, my friend woke me up at 3 or 4 am to "visit the village" which I couldn't do because of my sickness. The next morning I took the first train, it was the only option I had to go to Montréal because hitching wasn't working, and there was no bus in town.

Sunday noon, I was in Montréal. First thing i did, I went to a medical to center. They told me I had the swine flu(h1n1), which is ironic cause we were making so many jokes about it in Toronto. In the afternoon, I took the first bus home in Sherbrooke. I sent an email to my college telling them I'm not gonna be able to go back to school for another week.

Toronto view form the skypod in the CN tower