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For example: Is it possible to parking-lot-surf from the old IKEA on 51st Ave at Calgary Trail all the way down to the Second Cup

Yes, my child, it is.

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Points of interest (these makes more sense if you're following along with the numbered markers on the larger image):

1. Starting point: the new CIBC bank center in the parking lot of the old IKEA (now Finesse home furnishings or some such garbage). I stupidly drive the long way around Finesse.
2. First difficulty: Having passed the Motor Association, Red Lobster and Olive Garden, I'm faced with the back of the Zellers/ToysRUs building. I know if I turn right, I will be forced onto Calgary Trail, breaking the rules of the silly game I'm playing in my head. But left looks equally unappealing. I take a gamble on the loading dock ramp and discover a way around the East side of Toys R Us!
3. After zipping through the parking lots of all those little stores between TRU and Canadian Tire (Reitman's? Scholar's Choice? Can you tell I don't shop here?) I am confronted with the behemoth Canadian Tire building. But the solution is the same as for TRU: go East, young man.
4. The Canadian Tire building. From here it's easy: avoid Denny's parking lot (it's a dead end) and zip past the Super 8 Motel through the Esso parking lot.
5. The Future Shop building. Past this, through the little gap and up the hill into the parking lot of the fitness club, and finally ...
6. The Second Cup.

The things I do while trying to put my child to sleep.