Apparently this happened three weeks ago and the news is just coming out now. Winston Peters as usual has no idea what is happening and is too busy licking Trump's boots to actually say or do anything.

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[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Go to Canada instead.

[–] NoRamyunForYou@lemmy.nz 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We had actually planned to visit Seattle/British Columbia right before Covid Lockdowns hit, and havent really thought about it since.

To be honest, a lot of my sense of connection with the USA was due to Sports that I follow, and due to constant portrayal from Films/TV Shows. Other than that, don't really have a sense of wanting to visit North America at this point in time.

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I visited the west coast, I drove up from San Francisco to Vancouver visiting various towns in Oregon and Washington along the way. IMHO Canada was much better in every aspect except maybe mexican food. I really loved Vancouver and want to go back some day.

[–] NoRamyunForYou@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What were some of the big/key differences you noticed between the two?

The original plan was to actually do something similar. Start at SF, visit some National parks like Yosemite, go to Seattle and then drive on over to Canada... But with some of the early outbreaks in the US happening in and around Seattle, that quickly hanged to Just Canada, which quickly changed to Lets do a NZ Roadie, to lets just stay at home :)

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 day ago

Between the US and Canada you mean? I thought Vancouver was more beautiful and cleaner than SF. The air also was cleaner which I really noticed for some reason. I liked the sushi better in Vancouver, in fact some of the best japanese food I ever ate. The people seemed nicer.

As I said almost everything was a little better.

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You might be interested to know that a large portion of american movies and TV use Canadian cities and towns to portray american locales. So you might find yourself right where you wanted to be in Vancouver, Toronto, or Montreal, regarding seeing stuff you have enjoyed in movies :)

[–] NoRamyunForYou@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Seeing as your from lemmy.ca, I assume you are from Cananda? In that case, if you don't me asking, what would you say are some similarities in Canada, to how the US is portrayed in Hollywood, and differences?

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I'll make a proper comment when I have the time. This is a cool question that deserves some thought.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Slightly less racist and right-wing.
It just has much better PR

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 days ago

LOL