The Walk of Life
Day 16 - Vancouver
September 8, 1998
Vancouver sight seeing
Work first
There was some work to be done first. I should have checked with my airline
if the change of my flight from Sunday to Monday worked. But I couldn't
find an office of Delta Airlines although there must be one. So after some
time I gave up and went visiting the public library. Checking mail was
up. I managed to make my reservation and had to pay my $5 for an hour in
advance. So I had time to eat some of my sandwiches for lunch. Checking
email went fine although I had to delete about 2000 mails because by sending
an email to friends from Calgary I created an auto reply loop.
Pacific Space Center
After lunch I went to visit Vancouver Space Center which is located Vanier
Park. Unfortunately the Vancouver Museum and the Planetarium which are
located in the same park where closed (but there was a discount on the
entry fee). Vancouver Space Center does not really compare to Kennedy Space
Center. But still it has a lot of interesting things to see. One art you
may not see anywhere else is all about Canada in space. There was also
a simulation of a flight to Mars included. It's based on scientific ideas
of building a multi-national space station and a base on Mars to start
developing life on Mars. After also walking a bit around in the park the
bus took me back to downtown. Btw it's worth buying a day pass of Vancouver
public transportation for such a day. It includes all buses, ferries and
local railways.
Downtown
Since
there was not too much time and energy left i wanted to see some essential
places before shopping. So I went back to Canada Place to visit Vancouver
Trade and Convention Center. This center is an impressing building built
for the world exhibition. It contains shopping areas, ad IMax Theater trading
areas, offices and the ferry terminal. After that I tried to catch the
last possible Seabus to North Vancouver but I missed it because you have
to get back to the main station to enter the Seabus terminal. So i decided
to go shopping. Btw. the only shopping I did before the Museums was a visit
at Virgins without buying anything (there was too much).
We spent our evening on Dogwood campground.
Day 17 - On the way to Tofino