Hello everyone,
Quick note for long time readers: if you want to see any of my old posts from previous road trips, you can find them here. For whatever reason, Google won’t let me access my old blog account.
I’m currently in Vancouver, Canada for the next few days. My mom, brother Joe, and myself are on another road trip this summer. We are spending some time exploring the land of our Northern neighbors before we embark on an Alaskan Disney Cruise this Monday, July 3rd. If you don’t know, and how could you not, I’m a gigantic Disney fan and am ecstatic to go on this magical cruise for a week. But for now, let’s see what Canada has to offer.
We arrived in Canada last night (Wednesday) after a three hour flight that was a bit tight. Usually, I’m not bothered by the limited space on most commercial flights, but this was on a smaller plane and my broad physique felt fairly squished for most of the travel time. Oh well, maybe I’ll upgrade to those spacious first class seats on the return flight.
We landed safely at Vancouver Airport and for the first time, I legally entered a different country than the United States. For those of you who don’t know, back in 2015, I technically entered Canada, but not intentionally. If you want to read the full account of my first true international trip, you can click here. Suffice to say, being detained at the Canadian border is an experience I was happy to avoid this time around as we exited the plane, went through customs, grabbed our luggage and rental car. We made it to our AirBnB and rested for the night.
Today, after a late morning, we headed to Dylan’s Diner for some breakfast and then sped off to Stanley Park for our first road trip adventure. Stanley Park is quite large and filled with lots of trees, walking and bike paths, and a surprising amount of smokers. We spent about 90 minutes walking around this peninsula’s sea wall path, admiring the balancing rock art, geese swimming on the coast, and the occasional tandem bike riding past us. We decided walking around the entire island was going to take too much time, so we took a different path to head back to our car and see a few more sites at Stanley Park. We briefly saw Beaver lake which was filled with so much plant life, it was hard to tell if there was even a lake under all of it. We also walked past a rose garden that featured various colors of the famed flower. Once we found our car again, it was time to drive to the next destination.
We rode on the AquaBus to a few different ports in Vancouver. The first stop was Granville Island which featured a public market with a multitude of shops. We caught the tail end of a street performer who juggled knives while balancing on a skateboard stacked on top of a couple different objects. We walked through the market and looked in a few of the shops. We traveled on the AquaBus again to David Lam Park. Mom and I walked around for a little bit until I noticed the area looked kind of familiar. I thought the area might have been where some scenes from a TV show called the Flash was filmed (the show was mostly filmed in Vancouver), so I took a few pictures in order to compare the two late. On further inspection, it was not the same area, but David Lam Park was still a nice area to visit. Afterwards, we took the AquaBus back to where our car was parked and head back to our AirBnB. 
Mom and I went to the grocery store to buy some breakfast and dinner items for our stay in Vancouver. Dinner was pizza, pasta, and salad which was all pretty good. The rest of the evening is being spent relaxing, typing up blogs, and catching up on sleep. Speaking of sleep, I better go get some. Tomorrow, we got more adventures planned.
If you’d like to read the day’s events from my mom’s perspective, you can read her blog here.
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