Well yet another stay in the small northern town of Dryden has come around … Dryden is centrally located between Thunder Bay Ontario and Winnipeg Manitoba, along the Trans-Canada Highway.
It has become a very large commercial sector serving local citizens and visitors because of its central location in Northern
They have a town’s mascot, known as Max the Moose, a large cement statue whom stands 18 feet tall and weighs nine tons, found outside the Dryden Information Centre. It may be pretty cool to have a moose that big but I think they could have put a little work into it to make it look a little better (… I will need to go get a picture of that before I leave and add it … ).
Dryden is the home town of NHL super star hockey player Chris Pronger (currently playing hockey with the Philadelphia Flyers). He even has the local arena named after him with a digital sign providing the town with important
The town boasts a motto of “The Great Canadian Experience” well if that’s the case I have yet to feel that special experience yet. In fact we have been having some bad luck with the weather (gotta love snow in October ) and havebeen basically stuck here for almost three weeks, getting only a few flights here and there.
So I should have lots of time to make another Dryden post or two with more info, summary of what I think about this place and other sarcastic comments off course…
It is kind of like the Bill Murray movie “Ground Hog Day” where a TV weatherman who, during a hated assignment covering the annual Groundhog Day event in Punxsutawney (a town just like Dryden I am sure), finds himself repeating the same day over and over again. For us it has been having to eat in the same restaurants over and over …
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