Our first stop on our cross-USA trip took us west to Vancouver. Our road trip started with a bang... well it was more of a pop. The sound a tire makes when it gets a puncture 20 minutes from Nelson. Long story short, we ended up arriving in Vancouver later than expected.
We stayed at Josie’s friend Jessie’s apartment, and although she wasn’t there, her roommates and boyfriend were very welcoming.
The next day was our first Vancouver experience, so we shopped at MEC for some camping gear we needed for our trip and headed downtown on the SkyTrain to tour around. We visited Gastown and Chinatown, where we got soaked by torrential rain and ate lunch at a Chinese noodle house, where the menu included pigs feet and jellyfish. In the stores of Chinatown we saw dried geckos, very expensive birds nests (for soup), lots of dried seafood and maybe dried caterpillars. Very few signs were in English so it was fun guessing what everything was.
After lunch we caught the bus to Stanley Park, where we walked part of the seawall and saw totem poles. The park was much larger than we expected!
In the evening, we went out for all you can eat sushi with some friends. Tasty, lots of protein and we could get anything on the menu. Feeling rather sluggish, we headed back for some rest.
The next day we officially started our USA trip by crossing the border, which went fairly smoothly, and we headed for the Olympic Penninsula.
1 comment:
Yay, new travel reports! Look forward to the rest :) I never made it far enough into Stanley Park to see the totem poles. I spent 2 weeks in Vancouver and kept pushing SP off until suddenly it was the last day and all there was time for was a rushed trip to the edges to see some fat black squirrels :)
Look forward to the future descriptions of your adventures!
Cheers,
Christine
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