Sunday, January 10, 2010

Vancouver, here I come...

The pictures that follow are from a trip that I took to Vancouver, Canada in August, 2009. I flew to Seattle, took the bus to Vancouver, spent a week with friends in the Vancouver area, including a trip to Whistler, then drove with my friends back to Illinois, via Vancouver Island, the Oregon coast and across the plains.. The following pictures are in reverse order from my experience, but they are pretty nonetheless... I post them now as I think about the upcoming Olympic Games in Vancouver..it is pretty cool to think that those mountains around Whistler that I bravely took the cable car up to will soon be populated with some of the best winter athletes in the world!

Cannon Beach (Oregon coast)




More of the Oregon coast



Victoria, Vancouver Island




Shannon Falls, British Columbia

Whistler Mountain

A view of Whistler Mountain area

Traveling between the mountains on the cable car...I can't believe I did this!

Coming back down the mountain on the cable car....

Whistler, Canada


Horseshoe Bay, West Vancouver, Canada

Sunset over Horseshoe Bay

Puget Sound

Sunset overlooking Puget Sound

a few minutes later....

The same view the next morning....