The West Coast Museum Tour culminates in Vancouver, a town that I love all out of proportion to the amount of time that I actually spent there. Explanation: for grad school, I went to the University of Washington (the less said about that place, the better), and whenever I needed to chill out, I would drive up to Vancouver for some excellent Chinese food (go to Hon’s for the pot stickers) and then walk around Stanley Park, looking out at the bay and thinking vaguely sad and romantic thoughts. I'm a poet, man, give me a break.


Vancouver; I'm looking forward to seeing my old places and finally setting foot in the Vancouver Art Gallery. However, as Mc Sweeney’s makes clear, it's not all pot stickers and water-gazing in Vancouver; there are reasons to fear Canada.