Vancouver

Gavin and I drove back to Vancouver the day after the comp. I spent the next 2 days wandering around in some kind of daze, trying to recover from the week of sensory overload in Golden. I really did do about 5 days of completely spacing out which was just fine. Also caught up with Andy who some Oz and Kiwi readers will remember from many moons ago. It was fantastic to catch up, and we did the Grouse Grind - not some weird kinky dance, but a very popular hiking trail in North Vancouver. We hiked with John who I met earlier this year when he was traveling downunder. Grouse mountain has all sorts of tourist catches including a couple of re-homed grizzly bears called Coola and Grinder and some timber wolves at the base of the mountain. It's a relatively steep, short hike under a thick green canopy, beautiful but very busy.



I have to give you the quote of the month which comes from Andy. If you walk up Grouse Mountain you can take the gondola back down for $5, we did, and we were about half way down when Andy, standing in the middle of perhaps 80 people squashed into the gondola, says, in a very honest tone and to nobody in particular but loud enough for all to hear "So, I never thought about the cable breaking..."

Classic :-)