Vancouver

Digital Orca

Monday, May 13, 2024

Off to Vancouver to start our Rocky Mountaineer trip through the Canadian Rockies.  Although it was a midday flight, it is considered an international flight, we needed to be at the airport three hours early and LAX is typically busy on Monday morning’s.  It was an early morning!

While getting ready to leave, I turned on the news.  They were paying tribute to Sam Rubin, a well respected entertainment report on KTLA who had passed away a few days before.  He was 64, just a few years older than me. Whenever I take a trip, I find myself thinking that it isn’t the right time, this was a reminder that none of us know how much time we have left and we shouldn’t put off the things that we want to do.

We had done a Rocky Mountaineer tour in the US the year before, and we really enjoyed it.  I was looking forward to this one, I had been to Vancouver but I hadn’t been to Kamloops, Jasper, and Lake Louise which were places we would be stopping at.  This being May, we would avoid the summer crowds but we would still get to see some snow in the higher altitudes.

The three hour  flight from Los Angeles to Vancouver was uneventful.  I noticed there was a guy across the aisle from me working on a script. Vancouver has been called Hollywood North because of the amount of filming that has moved there.  I wondered if he was trying to pitch the script or if he was a working writer.

We arrived in Vancouver and took the train to the waterfront.   For the life of me, I was trying to remember if we had taken the train the last time I visited.  I remember researching it, but I cannot remember if we took the train.  We checked into the Pan Pacific Hotel and had lunch while we waited for the room to be ready   The hotel sits on the pier where the cruise ships pull up.  As we had lunch, we had a front row seat of the Disney Cruise Ship.

After lunch, we went to our room (1934) which had a great view of Coal Harbor and the cruise ships pulling in and out. Afterwards, we walked around the area and checked out the digital orca.   Too bad we weren’t staying in Vancouver a little bit longer, I like Vancouver, the city has a lot going for it and the people are very friendly!