It’s not often these days that i will travel north of the Fraser unless I absolutely have to. Sunday I received an invite to join a friends family for Thanksgiving Dinner in West Vancouver. Horseshoe Bay is about an hour drive and I decided to take my time and drive thru the core of downtown Vancouver for the first time in years just to see if anything had chanced at all.
Nothing has changed.
There’s a couple more towers up including a very impressive looking building in Yaletown with a very colourful stripe down one side. Other than that, pretty much the same people walking a round, going thru garbage cans, sirens, people yelling and the usual hustle and bustle that couldn’t have forced me out of the city sooner than when it did.
Eventually I ended up at my friends home, had a great dinner, conversation and drove home.
This time I took Highway One all the way back thru Vancouver, over the Port Mann, and down 176th. There is a stretch along the Trans-Canada thru Burnaby that featured some of the worst driving I’ve witnessed in quite some time but somehow I did manage to survive.
Next year, I think I’ll stay south of the Fraser where all I have to be concerned about is the odd person driving like they’re on the Autobahn and the occasional signal-less driver.
It’s just feels safer down here.