It’s about two and a half hours by car from our house in Seattle to Vancouver, Canada, and three hours to come back again. The difference is due to the border crossing — the lines into the US at Peace Arch are unpredictable and inefficient. There is little to do but sit in your idling …
We’re just back from four days in the Great White North. We had a lot of freezing fog – wow, that’s something you don’t want to experience every day, though it does make for some spectacular scenery. Our trip was a press trip – the PR company for BC Ferries is trying to promote their …
Vancouver Canada’s Dr. Sun Yat Sen garden
Well, I’d forgotten all about that. But in yesterday’s mail, I got two copies of Travellers Vancouver & British Columbia. The cover credit still goes to the original writer but whaddaya know? That’s my name on the flyleaf. And somehow, it’s even more fun to flip through the images and say, “Hey, I took that …
It is important to dress well while traveling. I realize that this is stating the obvious, but without an wool overcoat and warm hat and long underwear and big umbrella, the day would have been spent in relative misery. Either we’d have stayed in, napping and drinking tea – not so miserable but beside the …