About ten years ago there was a tv show called Due South. I was about 11 or 12 when it was around, and I was obsessed with it. It was about this Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman who had to work in Chicago with an interesting and amusing Chicago detective. The show had a great impact on me. It aroused in me the most unusual childhood career fantasy. I wanted to grow up and move to Canada and become a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. That was my American dream...to become a Canadian citizen. That phase lasted for quite a long time actually. I still haven't grown out of it. Once I finish college I still plan to do it. No, not really.
I found the series on dvd at Best Buy recently, so I got it for my b-day. Oh, how I enjoy re-watching the long forgotten episodes. The music is actually good, and I even found some of it on iTunes.
So there is a seldom mentioned piece of my childhood for everyone in the world to see.
Hey, I just remembered how last summer I went to Canada for the first time. When we went to the Boundary Waters we crossed the border for a little while. That was my first time out of the US.
4 comments:
I'll give you my Canadian citizenship for Xmas.
Since that is what I've always wanted, and since I am going to need that when I graduate and become a mountie, I take your offer seriously. It better be under my tree come Xmas morning.
yeah, yeah, and then, then you can teach me to be a mountie to, right? and i can have a Husky? and salute to the Canadian flag every time i see it, right? and drink a lot of Canada Dry? yeah, you can train me!!!
;-)
You owe that claim to moi. What would you do without me Mark?
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