Greetings from Vancouver, Canada! I'm in town to attend the Pan
Canadian E-learning Workshop, which runs from tomorrow (Monday) to Tuesday.
When I was making my travel arrangements for the conference, I decided to fly
in a day early -- not because I wanted to have some time to tour Vancouver but
to save some money. After a full day of walking around downtown (along the waterfront,
through Gastown, the historic
core of Vancouver; to the surprisingly large Chinatown
(which blessed me with the stillness of Dr.
Sun Yat-Sen Park), but couldn't get into the museum/archive
of The Chinese Cultural Center
of Greater Vancouver (though it was supposed to open today); onto the main
branch of the Vancouver
Public Library, which reminds me of the Toronto
Reference Library; the Granville
Book company and Chapters
Books on Robson
Street (which I guess is one of the main drags of Vancouver), along with Granville
Street; to dinner at Hon's
Wun-Tun House -- and then back to my hotel, the Pan
Pacific Hotel Vancouver.

As I walked around today, I saw so many things that intrigued me
about Vancouver that I was thinking about ways to share that excitement
with readers. The previous paragraph is a start, a laundry list of
where I was. But it's 11pm -- and I need to hit the sack. Perhaps more
will come later. (I regret not bringing my camera with me but lately,
I've gotten tired of schlepping a big camera on my trips to other
cities -- it makes stowing my backpack underneath the seat in front of
me that much more difficult.