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The November Road Trip

Posted by on Nov 11, 2011 in Musings

The November Road Trip

I had to travel to Calgary last week to participate in my mothers move into her new nursing home/care facility. Luckily I had changed over to winter tires about a week before I got the call that a room had been found for her. I have driven the route from Calgary to Vancouver and back and forth and forth and back more times than I can count. The 11 hour straight drive through is beginning to be a bit too much for me these days, but I still enjoy the scenery. I left Vancouver about 6:30 in the...

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False Creek in Vancouver, July 2003

Posted by on Oct 7, 2011 in Photo Gallery

False Creek in Vancouver, July 2003

I was going through my old photo’s so I could purge things that I didn’t like or thought I would never use. I came across this picture I took in July of 2003 from my balcony in the apartment I had which overlooked False Creek. Actually it’s not a creek,  more of an inlet that comes in from english Bay. At one time, back in the early history of Vancouver it was probably a creek but a lot of land got developed in that area –  filled in, dredged and so forth. The...

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