Tuesday Travel Update

A week has passed on my trips to Canada and Washington State! My stay in Vancouver B.C. was everything I thought it would be to my pleasant surprise. Vancouver itself and its surrounding communities combine to make for a huge city with a population over 2.2 million with over half its residents not having English as their primary language. I would have been in culture shock had I not grown up in a major metropolitan city "not Tulsa" and am somewhat use to hearing Japanese, Chinese, French and a multitude of other various languages walking around the malls and down the crowded city streets. It was a welcome change from just hearing Spanish and English in Oklahoma.

I now understand why Vancouver is called the Emerald City with all the conifers and green area parks, the buildings look like they were all built by the same company with the green glass and drab concrete. Vancouver in 2010 is hosting the Olympics and many areas are being torn up with new mass transit trams and venues being hurriedly built. It should be interesting to see how all the heavy construction effects it's ranking as one of the top three livable cities in the world. Overall it was a great trip, I don't know if I would want to live in Vancouver but traveling over 2,000 miles to visit was worth it. Check out over twenty photos from my trip on the T Town Tommy flickr site.

Comments

[Alan Scott]

Tommy, we had the pleasure of visiting Vancouver, BC back in 2005 and thought it was beautiful, too. It was clean and easy to drive around!