Today, clear skies and sunny. No coat needed in the afternoon. We found ourselves at the VanDusen Gardens. A welcome relief from the traffic congestion around Vancouver. The traffic here is very frustrating. Yesterday it took us 2 1/2 hours to get back to our place. The evening before, just 45 minutes. We took side streets through neighborhoods trying to navigate our way quicker but so did everyone else. Watched our GPS go from green to red to yellow to red. It made our little seaside town a welcome relief.
Tomorrow we leave here to get “all aboard” and head north. A thermal spa awaits us. It’ll be nice to relax and let Holland America do the driving now.
So for now, here’s some beautiful flowers instead of traffic. And by the way, they don’t do emissions here. How would we know that? Driving behind old jalopies spewing pollution in such a eco delicate and aware place forced us to hold our nose and look it up on line. dmc