British Columbia

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    South Vancouver Island

    November 5, 2015 - By 

    Vancouver Island comes second after New Zealand for being the largest island in the Pacific, and oddly enough, at the very southern tip of the island is Victoria, the lovely city and capital of British Columbia. Everyone raves about Victoria, often finishing their suggested excursions with a sigh of wistful nostalgia. People either love or hate San Francisco, Chicago, and New York, but no one, and I mean no one feels any disdain for Vancouver or Victoria. We had to check it out. Trip planning for Vancouver Island was not easy. First, there was the expensive ferry. (If we didn’t…

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    Sea-to-Sky

    October 30, 2015 - By 

    Autumn in Whistler meant one cannot enjoy the lakes and watersports of summer nor the splendor of white powder of winter. However, I was already in Vancouver and had the desire to venture slightly more north, especially since it meant driving along the famous Sea-to-Sky Highway. And best of all, after consecutive days of rainy, gray skies in Vancouver, we were guaranteed days of sunshine in the Whistler area. My first stop en route to Whistler was in the little town of Squamish specifically for the Stawamus Chief, the second largest freestanding monolith in the world. Sitting along the highway, the…

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    Vancouver (…and how I found out I was Canadian)

    October 28, 2015 - By 

    I visited Vancouver as a child a number of times to visit relatives, but I hadn’t been back since. Vancouver would be not just a beautiful city to me, but also a place that would trigger old memories from my childhood and a place with family members who would enjoy feeding me piles of homemade Vietnamese food. YES! A ride along the Sky Train past the eye-catching “golf ball” of Science World brought us to my aunt’s condo for lunch, and there I learned of my mother’s dual citizenship with the U.S. and Canada. “Hm, maybe I’ll look into getting…