Vancouver
Best Ways to Take a City Tour
Driving around on your own while attempting to tour a strange city is a good way to ruin a great travel experience. Dealing with traffic, finding places to park, juggling maps or trying to listen to your GPS—while arguing with your travel mates about which museum to visit first—can all contribute to frazzled nerves. This … Continue reading
Pin ItHop On, Hop Off – the Best Way To See a New Destination
The first time we hopped on and off was in New York, but it would not be the last. We were spending a couple of days in New York before we embarked on a cruise to Bermuda and we wanted to see as much of the city as possible in the little time we … Continue reading
Pin ItAll the Cool Kids are Doing It: A 2011 Retrospective
This has been a truly, truly wonderful year. It didn’t start out that way. Sometime last January, I got punched in the stomach with the news that the travel company I was writing for was doing away with the travel blog I had painstakingly designed and maintained for almost two years. Not only did they … Continue reading
Harbour Cruises in Vancouver
I was in a panic. All of my good intentions to carry my Bonine everywhere with me, no matter what, on every trip, had ceased to be important after our cruise ship docked in Vancouver and I figured I wasn’t going to need it again until we flew home. Only I did need it. We … Continue reading
Vancouver in 4-D
I’m just going to step over here into this teeny-tiny group of people who thought Granville Island was just OK. Yes, it had beautiful produce and some delicious-smelling food but…it was not nearly as large as we thought, there were really just a few shops and the area was kind of…well…grungy. Now that I really … Continue reading
Beautiful, Beautiful Vancouver
Unlike many of our trips where we arrive travel worn, exhausted and ready to fall into the closest bed, we arrived in Vancouver on a cruise ship with the city as our last port and strolled off casually into a typically gorgeous Vancouver day. I had been to Vancouver before but only long enough to … Continue reading
First Impressions of Disney Wonder: One Bedroom Concierge Suite
After fabulous, fabulous Vegas, we headed out on a Disney cruise of the Pacific Northwest. We were mostly thrilled to be returning to San Francisco, one of our favorite places, but we also love that coast and were very interested to visit Vancouver for the first time. This same cruise from LA to Vancouver is … Continue reading
This is the Opposite of Writer’s Block
I don’t have writer’s block. I have…what is this…writer’s deluge? I am deluged with so many words, so many images, so many activities, so many experiences from the last few weeks that it’s hard to get them organized. The last time I was this deluged with stories was last fall when we spent a few … Continue reading
