Idle, Eric - The Greedy Bastard Diary: A Comic Tour of America by Idle Eric

Author:Idle, Eric [Idle, Eric]
Language: deu
Format: epub
Tags: Bus Travel, Canada, Humor, Social Science, Form, Travel, Essays & Travelogues, General, United States, Biography & Autobiography, Essays, Customs & Traditions, Special Interest
ISBN: 9780060758653
Google: 69Yb_ti4q3IC
Amazon: 0060758651
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: 2005-01-01T23:00:00+00:00

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is tumbling down the Niagara River toward Lake Ontario on its way to the sea. Excited Japanese tourists race past us, snapping away. Although you don’t get the full, wide-angled panoply of the Canadian view here on the American side, nevertheless you are much closer to the water ’s edge, and when we walk over to the larger Horseshoe Falls, the prospect is extraordinary. The sun is shining through the rising mist, making the river gleam as it races to its doom. On the tiny islands that divide the stream, the ferns are etched with white frost. At this point we are within five yards of the water as it ceases to become a river, and suddenly becomes a shower. You can barely see the Canadian side for the swirling clouds of mist, but way below, on a rocky promontory, tiny tourists in yellow raingear are strutting about like Lilliputians. At the base of the falls, the river turns sharp right into a steeply etched channel, where it is joined by the bubbling froth from the secondary falls and sets off bravely for Canada. Can you believe someone went over this last week? It’s madness to even step into the river it’s so cold. But to voluntarily go over the edge? Yet they survived!

We step into the gift shop to get warm. The cold has gone into my bones, and my ears are frozen. It’s like being twelve again.

They are selling daredevil videos of the people who make a living going over Niagara. It makes comedy look a very soft option.

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