Vancouver Travel Blogs

    Okay so it is still May 24th, Saturday evening...and we a head up to Grouse Mountain to see the resuced bears who call this place home, also to have a great dinner, watch the sunset..see the evening lights and then call it a day..We had crammed quite alot in the few hours of satu…

Love does move in  mysterious ways. The dream of passionate lover came true when Philippine Airlines sealed a 12-year relationship between two highschool sweet hearts during a Vancouver-Las Vegas flight on September 21, 2007.   It all started when the airlines Customer Relations office …

Vancouver – I’ll Never Leave Again   Leaving Vancouver Poem by Ken McIsaac   From whitecaps to snow caps,I could never do without.Fragrant flowers, tall trees.Nice people all about.   I left here once before,Oh how I missed it then.I was so very sorryBut I'll never leave a…

9:30am: Got things ready for departure and went to the Princess representatives at our hotel to be told to come back at 11:30 because the ship was delayed coming into port due to stormy weather out of San Francisco. She said our ship would still be leaving on time but we wouldn't be transferred to …

The weather is great so we decide to go out of the city and visit Grouse Mountain. We take a bus just down the road; everybody is really helpful in telling us where to change busses and when to get of one. We drive through the north side of Vancouver till we are at the foot of the mountain. For…

Being home is the strangest thing. My parents are away on a cruise right now and my older brother was on a fishing trip so I got a ride home from Janelle. Driving down the streets of Vancouver, the first thing I noticed was the incredible amount of street lights that lined the roads. It was just la…

After flying north back over our home and Fresno, we proceeded north over Lake Tahoe and the Reno area and finally past Mt. Rainier and arrived in Vancouver at just 12 noon.  Our paperwork from Princess Cruise Lines gave us very specific instructions on how to follow very closely guided direct…

I woke up to my first Pacific Northwest rainstorm. Since it was so gloomy outside, I took my time leaving the hostel and chatted with my roommates and some of the people I had gone out with the previous night. The roommate who I thought was a little odd the first night opened up a bit. She was also…

After flying from Fresno to Los Angeles and then from there to Vancouver we boarded our ship, the Coral Princess for the seven day cruise.  We had gotten up at about 3 am to get ready and drive from our home the one hour to Fresno to make our flight.  The flights had been good and on our …

So in my other travel blog I talk about my Japanese friend Tomoko. In March of last year she came out here and stayed a week with us so we decided to go to Vancouver and show her the touristy sights. There was about 9 of us so we were like a big mob. We did all of the same stuff as the last two Van…

The ride back to Vancouver, Canada, was straight. About 5 hours later we were in familiar territory for the first time in weeks. We drove over the Granville Street bridge towards Downtown where I was being dropped off and saw that Vancouver sight that made me so excited to be home. Mountains! I…

I landed in Vancouver on December 25th, 2007.  What a day to be by yourself :( ... I immediately phoned home to my family to hear their voices, a special day that we're always together :( ... Christmas!   I took photos at the Vancouver Airport, picked up my luggage, ph…

Vancouver is a really beautiful city to visit.  This is one of my favorite cities in all of Canada. The Pacific Northwest will take your breath away because all of it's mountains, lakes, rivers and wide open spaces. Vancouver is a place that never sleeps, there is something…

We'll Run Till We Drop   Since the radio options were slim traversing Canada’s majestic mountains, Hayley (originalgirl) and Robert (rvegas) were held captive to listening to my eclectic and eccentric CD collection. I will use some of the tunes we heard to help document our wacky…

Pictures from trip to Vancouver and Banff.