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 vehicle, fussing with the radio and pondering why the line you’re not in is moving so much faster. It’s the border crossing that keeps us from heading north to our neighbor city more often.… continued…
For Photo Friday, Vancouver Canada’s Dr. Sun Yat Sen garden. I like this photo because it’s got the reflection of a very modern building in the very traditional lily ponds of the beautifully manicured garden. Go first thing in the morning, you’ll have the place to yourself.… continued…
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 picture!” Or, in some cases, to J, “Hey, you took that picture!”
We’ve done all of our previous work under my byline – J wasn’t physically present to sign the contracts and he shuns the spotlight, but his photos made the cut more often than mine for the Hawaii guide we have coming out under the same label.… continued…
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 point of being in Vancouver – or we’d have been chilled through. We were not deterred by the mixed snow and rain, no sir, we headed right out into it.… continued…
