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Trans-Canada Highway (Canadian national route)

A vast arterial ribbon that threads the country from ocean to ocean, the Trans-Canada Highway reads here as the imagined backbone of Mendoza’s cross-country drive. In Sam’s breathless itinerary it functions as connective geography—endless asphalt, provincial signs ticking by, roadside gas stations and the slow compression of distance into time. The highway operates narratively as a pragmatic route and comic device: it explains delay, sketches a lonely return from Nova Scotia toward Washington, and converts travel logistics into a tangible political nuisance.
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S1E15 · Celestial Navigation
Absent Nominee, Explosive Press — Josh’s Slip Escalates the Crisis

The Trans-Canada Highway appears in Sam's itinerary as the plausible backbone of Mendoza's scenic drive—its invocation gives comedic specificity to the nominee's route and stresses the logistical reality of a long return.

Atmosphere

Long, methodical transit; procedural and unhurried.

Functional Role

Narrative device that translates geographic distance into scheduling delay.

Symbolic Significance

Represents the administrative friction between political timing and physical geography.

Endless asphalt and highway signs (imagined) Sequential waypoints that sap time Imagined roadside antique stops

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