Getting Nervous

Canada Needs a Better Social Media Guy

Canadian Advisories

I have been looking for campsites along Highway 37 in British Columbia. When I travel, I don’t make reservations—they stress me out. I also try to avoid videos and other information about the place. If some unspeakable danger awaits, I rather find out when I am there. Let’s face it, we wouldn’t have done half the things we have done in our lives if we knew how difficult they would be.

However, I have been trying to find campsites with showers. I also want to know how I check-in and pay for campsites. Apparently, many of them use an old form of currency called “cash.” And I think they mean that monopoly money people jokingly call dollars in Canada. Cute.

But then I came across the advisories above. Canada needs better PR. Fire that social media guy immediately and hire Noah, the Gen Z kid. I mean, those advisories are actually informative. A grizzly bear is stalking the campsite! No, no. It needs to say, “You’ll Never Believe What is Hunting Down the Campers!” The click-baity title will, ironically, keep me from clicking on it, and then I can continue to live in blissful ignorance. Canada’s tourism industry could explode if they took my advice.

But really, though. For some reason, those advisories scared me just a little. To know that bears are a general threat is one thing; but, to know that grizzly bears (specifically grizzly bears) are invading a specific campsite made it seem entirely too real.

I have a feeling I won’t be sleeping very well.