For those of you who aren't familiar with Banff, it's a resort town located within Banff National Park in Canada's Rocky Mountains. The service population is largely transient, like other resort towns in Canada, with a large number of Aussies and Kiwis on work visas.
I'll be there a little more long term, at least a full year. I've decided to take a gap year and work at the Gap (HAH), which has hired me on as the new logistics manager. Basically that means I'll be in charge of receiving shipments, keeping a clean and organized stockroom, and getting new merchandise onto the sales floor. Behind the scenes stuff.Suffice to say, I'm stoked!
Banff will be an interesting change of pace for me, as it's a much smaller town than Victoria or Kelowna. I'm talking less than 8000 people. That, and it's located inside the national park. I have to get special permission from the federal government to live there. It's serious business.
Anyway, just wanted to keep people updated!
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That sounds like an awesome adventure. I'm just a little jealous! Have fun, and beware the wildlife. (Do they give you calsses on bear avoidance and such wehn you move in?)
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It's Canada, we're trained at birth how to interact with wild life, hahahah. Wouldn't be my first time happening across a bear or two in the wild.
DeleteAs an amusing favor to me: when you get there, at some point count the stop lights on the main road. Stop lights are usually a good measure of how small a town is.
ReplyDeleteMine, for instance, has three. And one of them blinks.
It's kind of fun that you're going from big to small, and I'm going from small to big (Prague-sized, specifically) in September!
I think most of the intersections of the main street have lights. It's a small town, but it's a resort town, possibly the most visited tourist destination in Canada.
DeleteAnd I'm going from reaaaaally big to small. Singapore -> Victoria -> Kelowna -> Banff. Aieah.
Just seeing this - congrats J! Banff is a really beautiful town, even in the snow. :) Make sure to go to the Banff Springs Hotel at least once while you're there.... There's a restaurant in the basement where I had the most awesome buffalo stew there a few years back.
ReplyDeleteJust beware of all the tourists. ;)
Cheers,
-n
Thanks, Nick! Oddly enough, I'm living pretty much right beside the BSH, where one of my friends is currently working. Will have to go in and demand stew. No hope of avoiding tourists, though, as I'll be in the Gap most every day. They be needing their logo hoodies!
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