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... of Canada. Its where the homeless have congregated - Vancouver gets a lot of people head there due to the more temperate climate, after spending some time in Toronto and Montreal I can completely understand this - and they seem to cluster around this street. I cannot really compare it to anything in Europe. That was defintely an eye-opener, especially seeing how green, clean and generally nice the city was.... We left Vancouver with a heavy heart - if we had ...

... glad to have done it. Whenever a trip of mine starts drawing to a close, I switch focus to my next venture, an essential practice that prevents you from getting the post-travel blues. In this case, I'd finally decided that I was going to go to South Korea in the Autumn to teach English, with the aim of moving to Japan eventually. So with the decision made, I spent some time in the impressive library researching Seoul, and it ...

... rainforest. There is a Treetops walk and another boardwalk which hugs the cliffs. Well worth a hour or two spent. After a pleasant lunch at the small restaurant opposite the park we went into the city. We drove through Stanley Park on the end of the peninsula. This has some good beaches and is obviously the play area for Vancouver families with many play areas and recreational facilities. We parked and ...

... and cursed at Debra as they got around her in heavy Friday-night-commute traffic. Finally, a state trooper pulled up behind her and offered to push her to the nearest exit. Debra thanked him, but fretted because she thought she wouldn't get to the Mariners game in time to hear her friend sing. The trooper told her, "It'll work out. You gotta have faith!" He called a tow truck. The tow truck ...

... day.. and quite a few of the appealing exhibits, Red Panda and Penguins for example, were shut. Probably too warm a day for them, but definately not for me. We tagged along with Emily to a BBQ Saturday afternoon and continued to enjoy the sunshine while it lasted. BBQ in sunshine meant some very hungover girls wandering Seattle streets and fighting the crowds in Pike Place markets Sunday afternoon before heading back on the bus to Vancouver.

Today we submitted the following "story idea" to CNN; specifically for Dr. Sanjay Gupta, chief medical correspondent for the health and medical unit at CNN. I suggest this story idea be directed at Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Don Stevenson, 72, a former pastor from Auburn, Washington, is an ultra walker. According to his website, www.pacinparson.org, since 1998, Don has logged over 30,000 miles criss ...

I (Andy) had to back up a little today and reconsider the artist's depiction of Don that I posted yesterday. There are others involved in celebrating Don's walk for HDSA and I didn't consider all of their opinions about it before posting. I apologize for that. I've replaced the art with ...

... the Czech Republic, in part because I was there last fall with my friend Pete and had a great time, but I was there last fall. I considered South America, but my interest didn't extend much beyond Machu Picchu, and that wouldn't fill three months. Time and again I reconsidered the tour to Shipton's Arch plus something else, but I couldn't figure out what the something else was. Perhaps because of some accidental reading on China, Simon Winchester's The River at the ...

... it looked like she didn't give you enough change." I smile sweetly, "No, she did." "Oh, good, I just wanted to make sure." I smile sweetly again, "Thanks!" and we head on our way. Why is this a scam? What they want is for you to open your money belt and start counting your money. Maybe they will grab it or better yet, help you count it and use a slight of hand trick to pocket some. I actually hadn't counted my change that ...

... which was difficult to do (amazing woman!!) and we squeezed in the car (some of us easier than other, longer ones)and bumped out of Kamloops Avenue to Nanaimo to 1st (or something like that). We were off! Except we needed to burn our extra canadian cash--we weren't coming home with so much as an extra cent! It took us a while to scream through the rest of the money (you'd think it wouldn't be too difficult to spend 20 bucks) But of course we had ...