The first things you notice about Canada are the gas prices.
Signs list them as low as $1.05 a gallon. There must be a catch
.There is, actually. Canadians (two typical ones are shown here) use teeny gallons – ones so small that you almost need four of them to make a real gallon. Read more…
1) “Rivers of Life,” 8 p.m., PBS. You rarely see anyone try to climb up a waterfall. But a guy actually does that in the Rockies, when the water freezes. That’s one of many views we get of the sprawling tributaries of the Mississippi. They reach 31 states (including the Yellowstone spot shown here); they form a basin that produces 92 per cent of U.S. food exports, this film (great visuals, so-so narration) says. The Mississippi hauls the equivalent of 49 million truckloads of freight each year. This hour goes from the frozen North to a million-acre Southern swamp. Read more…
