The Spoked Traveller | Toronto
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Toronto

"Look at its tiny head!" says Vieve, pointing at the dinosaur's skeleton that spans the entire length of the museums's foyer. vieve day one ROM IMG_1436                           This is Genevieve Sebastian's interpretation of Little Head at the ROM. Perched on top of its body, its head is almost smaller than mine. That's the funny thing with evolution: big heads progress confirming that nerds will eventually take over the planet. Yahoo.   I'm at the Royal Ontario Museum that has been on Bloor and Avenue Road in Toronto since 1914; it's one of North America's largest museums of natural history, culture and art that pulls in over one million visitors a year. Here are a few of my favourites on my first ever visit. But, a bit of background. IMG_1354                   The ROM. Some love it; some hate it, architecturally speaking, of course.

For the last few weeks my head feels like a piñata full of bits and pieces of Toronto. And, in two days it's about to be cracked open! I will be traipsing around Toronto, biking through neighbourhoods like Little Malta, Little Jamaica, and sailing on Lake Ontario, strutting around the nude beach on the islands, and getting punished in a Russian bathhouse in the burbs, in search of a new Toronto adventure--just like I would on any other trip. The July Project (TJP) is the culmination of over four months of reading about Toronto, and constantly asking locals, 'If you had to recommend one place, or one thing to do or see in Toronto, what would you suggest?'