Vancouver Tidbits

Some observations of our time in Vancouver:

The drivers are great about letting pedestrians have the right-of-way (just like they are supposed to in California).

The bus drivers are the most helpful and friendly of any bus drivers we've had anywhere. Hands down.

Many people in Vancouver (as well as Seattle and Portland) are well-tattooed and smoke.

Downtown Vancouver has a hidden Costco. We took an elevator from street level to go down to find it. The food court does not have churros, but it does have french fries with gravy and lattes. Guess which one we got...

Sushi here is excellent.

A little more about our guesthouse.  This place is a little European (one owner is Finnish, the other grew up in Switzerland). Most of the other guests we saw were German. They do not make your bed. The bathroom is down the hall (never a wait). The tv only works to watch dvds. There is a huge dvd library to use. You get to use this cute kitchen and breakfast food is provided. There were supposed to be bikes to borrow, but they had been stolen a few days before we got there.

The only snafu was that I had emailed before we went to ask if we could stay an extra day, and they said, sure. We arrived and paid for that extra day, but when that day arrived, they were a little confused and did not have a room for us. So, in a hurry, we called our Seattle hotel and asked if they had a room for that night (they did), we called Amtrak and asked if we could change our ticket to that day (they could), we threw our stuff into our suitcases, called a taxi, and were out of there to catch our Amtrak bus which left about 45 minutes later. They did refund that extra day's charge.