Canadia

I am now in Vancouver BC, and pretty excited about it. I left Reed at 7.30 this morning, and took a train from PDX to Seattle train station, then caught a bus from Seattle to Vancouver. This took a while: I got into downtown Vancouver station at 5pm, where Hannah and her Dad picked me up. I slept through a large part of the train journey, and the bus wound through miles and miles of fairly uninteresting grey countryside and urban sprawl. Outlet mall after outlet mall, stores selling RVs and RV supplies, great churned up muddy fields where diggers seemed to be building more grim warehouse and stores. The sky got greyer and greyer as I got closer to Vancouver, so my first look was pretty depressing. I'm looking forward to seeing the city in daylight though, I've heard good things about the place. Hannah's folks seem really nice, and I don't quite trust their dog Sparky but we might be able to reach some kind of truce. Right now I'm pretty knackered from the trip, but we should be up to stuff tomorrow, and Tim and Justine are around later in the week. Oh, and the customs people were kind of humourless and scary. Which I suppose is why they were hired.