Air Travel sucks

bring on the highway...

01.06.2007

So many things accomplished, so little time to type it all out!

After our marathon flight across 3 continents we arrived in Vancouver and piled into the hire van as planned. I was surprised at the lack of jet lag, but we did well to eat and sleep at the right times, and we had plenty of opportunity for daytime naps over the weekend.

Sasquatch was quite amazing- the photos on flickr show what a stunning setting the venue was. Saw some great music, watched some crazy characters, ate dodgy american festival food and drank nice american beer.
Was great to have a practice run at a US road trip and sort of get my head around the driving-on-the-right thing, since I'll be doing most of the driving over the next few weeks.

Once we were back in Van we tried to figure out just what to do in the very limited time we had left. We settled for one day checking out beautiful Lynn Canyon on the outskirts of the city and downtown Vancouver itself. We had a great dinner at the Foundation where Conor worked while he was living here, and spent the next day exploring Main St shops and roaming the classy neighborhood of Mount Pleasant with it's big beautiful 3-story wooden houses. Our last night in town turned into a snowball of people saying goodbye to our Vancouver-Perth friends, and we managed to catch up with Luan, Gemma and Brendan Tapley all in one night!

We got 3 hours sleep, jumped on a plane which was delayed, made a really tight transfer only to find out our luggage was not so fortunate. After hanging around for a couple of hours as SF airport our bags turned up and we made the train ride into the city to meet our other friends who had arrived at the hostel some hours earlier.

We've just spent the day roaming western SF on foot, checking out lots of great design and clothing stores, and some galleries and cafes to boot. SF is not as beautiful as Vancouver, and seems to lack that *something*... that character.

Lots more stories to come, we start our road trip on Monday and will hopefully have a bit more downtime to connect