I met Patricia some years ago at a Leah party. I wish I knew when that was but could not find it in my blog but it had to have been before April 2013. Patricia and I have had deep conversations at every Leah party since then. Patricia has wanderlust travel DNA that I envy.
We met at the airport and traveled to Granville Island for a great view (a common theme in Vancouver).
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| Great view. |
Then we walked about the shopping area in an outdoor market. Beautiful.
Saturday, Patricia already had a planned afternoon event so she dropped me off at the entrance to Stanley Park. I think I can handle it from here.
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| On the left, my next home. |
The first block to the park had 4 bike rental shops. I see a pattern here. I rented a bike, walked it to the park, and took off.
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| Vancouver view from Stanley Park |
Wow. Perfect day, perfect weather. I stopped to watch a cricket game (don’t understand it) on the island. Vancouver is beautiful from Stanley Park. For lunch I stopped at one of the many Asian restaurants and somehow worked my way through the menu. Delicious.
Patricia picked me up and we went to another walkway/view spot to Vancouver and walked and talked for hours. Her afternoon meeting had been intense.
That evening we watched the fireworks from her balcony. Vancouver has fireworks completion every year.
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| The view from Patricia's place, pre fireworks. |
Patricia suggested we go to Whistler. Yes! Whistler has a very nice base village (I compare it to Vail) with several lifts to the top.
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| Patricia at the Base. |
And what a view from the top. Incredible!
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| Patricia and me on the suspension bridge. |
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| And the view down from the suspension bridge. Yikes! |
We saw some active glaciers while walking down to the lower gondola.
On the flight home, I noticed an Orange County fire from the port side of the aircraft. Welcome to SoCal.
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| From the return flight, an Orange County fire. |
