It couldn’t have been planned more perfectly. The seemingly preordained coordination of events resolved themselves better than the masses who flock to fitness centres in January. Just as dozens of centimetres of snow were tumbling their way down from grey skies, a Toyota with 4WD arrived at my doorstep. What better to tackle the unplowed residential roads of downtown Edmonton than a vehicle with true 4WD, not just AWD, from a notoriously reliable automaker? Clearly, Neptune had aligned with Orion’s Belt in the Third Sphere.