Best Western Coquitlam Inn

... some little towns like, Pineda de Mar,<br>Calella and Malgrat de Mar. We would have loved to see so much more in<br>Spain but that did not work out. We were in a hotel, all inclusive which was a fantastic deal;<br>three meals a day and all drinks, like beer, wine, sangria or "cocktail<br>of the day" included from 10 am till midnight. The downside is that you<br>don't go out for trips during the day. So next time I prefer going on<br>vacation and seeing ...

... ready to go<br>in the suitcase, doing laundry, cleaning up, start packing.<br>Friday<br>we get up early, because Lloyd who will take us to the airport, needs<br>to be at work at 8 AM. We probably leave the house around 6AM<br>(really??) so we'll be at Vancouver Airport around 7AM. Our flight<br>leaves 11:25AM so that gives us lots of time to have some breakfast,<br>coffee, do some photography before taking off.

So we're still in Coquitlam. <br><br>We went for border attempt #3 today..It didn't work. However today we did get a whole lot closer. We got the most wonderful officer ever. He wanted to let us over so bad but at the end of the day couldn't do it. Tomorrow we need to get our bosses credentials.. head to the border.. and get into the ...

... because it makes me upset and I&#8217;m still not sure what the ****in problem was. <br> So we&#8217;re back in Vancouver. Waiting around for the damn consulate to open Monday morning. Luckily for both of us the wineries are working with us to get this **** sorted out. Rob isn&#8217;t scheduled to start until the 31st of the month so he has a lot more time than I do.. Since I start THURSDAY! This whole thing is a giant pain in the ass for everybody. So.. For all our friends in Kelowna ...

... prices were ridiculously high, there were many sampling stations that made up for this. I sampled kimchi (spicy preserved vegetables), and spicy raw fish (They didn't tell me it was fish when I tried it-I thought it was some kind of vegetable). We ended up leaving with a bunch of premade food. The most interesting ones were the deep fried black beans (Even though they were just beans ...

We arrived in Vancouver a little late than we were supposed to at about 9.30am. We got the sky train to the stop near the hostel and walked up. We checked in but couldnt get in our rooms till 3pm so left our big bags in the storage room and explored Vancouver. We had a few things to sort like getting stamps so did that then got some lunch. I got some soup, a bagal and a doughnut from my favourite ...

... about $25 for one person entry We decided that it was too much of a rip off so just meandered around the waterfront by the Canada Centre and the Sea Plane docks. Got to Stanley Park, and what a place. We really got stuck into the Salmon Berrys along one of the trails that we were walking along, and low and behold a Raccoon walks out across the path in front of us. They are actually quite a small thing, roughly the ...

... questioning, or trying to get away with revealing the least amount of info in the hopes it'll speed things up. Until they ask you a leading question and you end up having to tell them the whole story but in dribs and drabs. This time I hit the jackpot though, just a few questions in and I was asked if I'd been to Canada in the last six months. Why yes I most certainly have Mr Immigration Hitler, in fact I've only been in ...

... into Arizona, to avoid all the forest fires in the south. We plan on entering Mexico at Sonoyta then working our way down the east coast all the way to Manzanillo. The way home will be the most direct route. Up central Mexico and straight up to Edmonton. Of course the is the plan. Haley will have a lot to do with how far we actually make it. Our first day on the road has taken us further then planned. We made it all the ...

... rest of the trip we were split into groups so one night you could be cooking, the next doing the dishes and the next night doing the van cleaning. After dinner we got stuck into the first of many nights of beer drinking and Geo went through all the details of what we could expect for the first half of our tour. Had a few more beers then crashed for the night. The next day went into washington early to try and get tickets for the washington monument. they only give ...