Rangers Sabbatical, part 4 - Sights of Vancouver
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Vancouver, BC, Canada:
- Host of the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic games
- Where The X-Files was shot for the first five seasons
- Home to the Canucks ice hockey team
- And where I stayed for two weeks!
While there, I took a few hundred photos (thanks to my sister for lending me her camera) that I thought I would share. Not all of them, but some of the highlights that will stay in my memory long after my code is no longer used.
Work
My laptop felt a little threatened by the two 24-inch monitors my desk came with.
If you ever wondered how Willy-Peter keeps pushing out content all the time…
After 5 days of no sun, when it finally came out, I went outside and took a picture (just in case it went away again) – South Africans are powered by the sun.
Dry Africa
While traveling, I took the chance to drink all the drinks you no longer get in South Africa:
Vancouver
The floating Olympic sign with Stanley Park behind it—taken from the Sea Bus.
This Harry Potter-like house is actually a houseboat. I had never expected them to look so much like houses.
FOOD! This was taken in Granville Island, where you need loads more stomachs just to get through it.
SNOW
As someone who had never seen snow before, one of my big highlights was when Willy-Peter and his family took me up Grouse Mountain for snowshoeing!
At the base of Grouse Mountain—no surprise that they shot some of The X-Files here; it is just so spooky from below. Once up there, it is beautiful.
Modern snowshoes aren’t like tennis rackets anymore.
Carola and one of our snowshoe guides at the top of the mountain!