13 vii 06: Farewell to Canada
Raw notes from my pocket journal:
Saw Stu to Ferry at 7
Off to Ferry myself with Ellie & kids --
BORDER TERRIER posted cards at BOWEN [unhappily without thinking that Canadian standard postcard rate would not be sufficient to take the cards to the USA] %7.55 for 8 stamps; was issued 9, returned one.
Whole Foods Market.com
Tara's orthodontic app't.
7.16 Greenbus @ Burrard
7:29 46 59 wooden burl crown
www.circlecraft.net
MAIWAHANDPRINTS
717-xxx-xxxx Dad's mobile look for Dad around 8:30
cooked hasty dinner -- Gaeng Kari Tua & Papadums
5:50 left for ferry
6:12 on ferry eating dinner c/o Ellie's travel mug
257 EXPRESS BUS OR 250 TO GEORGIA & BURRARD THEN WALK TO FAIRMONT
HOTEL VANCOUVER ON BURRARD
CATCH AIRPORTER TO
INTERNATIONAL DEPARTURES
GATE
40 6:55 7:35 Out of the ferry by 6:40 Now waiting for 6:55 bus 257 downtown
6:55 leaving horseshoe bay 7:01 passing caulfeild [sic] where Tara and I went in Safeway
7:03 cypress creek @ 12 min past Lions Gate Bridge
7:08 entering West Van -- quite a posh neighborhood today. Ellie Mackay grew up here
Overheard on the GVTA radio:
"The crying relieved owner has retrieved her possessions"
A CAA office -- in West Van at Park Royal (where we went to Whole Foods this after) near Taylor Way & Marine Drive -- west of this intersection)
Across the Capilano river 7:16 looks like cobbles -- Lions Gate Bridge 7:17 towards Stanley Pk
7:21 in the heart of Stanley Pk -- now snarled in traffic.
"Yikes! Okay, 10-4. You do realize that that was an hour ago." "Yes. I'm sorry." "It's okay -- you just have to get up to the ferry."
&:24 out of Stanley Park
"Just so you know, the Bowen is down a few minutes so your passengers should be fine."
WELCOME TO VANCOUVER A NUCLEAR WEAPONS FREE ZONE
Now on Georgia St 7:46
on the Green Airporter
sign downtown Vancouver: "BAIT CARS ARE EVERYWHERE Your Local Police"
Granville Bridge 8:08 p
Crossing over Granville Island
"Trying to get hold of Fred; we can hear him, but he can't hear us"
"Tell him to bring the portable radio in when he finishes his run. It needs to charge."
"That could be hard 'cause he doesn't have a phone."
"Who's closest to 41st[?]"
"Stop at 41[st]"
"Inbound or outbound[?]"
"Going to airport"
"Will they have bags or a hat or flag you down?"
8:54 passed through security at YVR with boarding passes; luggage checked -- now for some sustenance -- almost 2 hours to wait! flight AirCanada 0156 gate c41, ET seat 25A
boarding time 10:05
STARBUCKS $7.73 date bar, 175g fat free yogurt, double cappuccino
Starbucks has two longhouse posts in front of it; the music is Vivaldi & Handel
the multiple tile color thing
Bus driver on Airporter most entertaining, shouting "airport" in Hong Kong accent at each stop.
Now it's Wendy/Walter Carlos realization of a baroque piece -- no, it's someone else doing it -- this has real violins and recorders. I think it's vivaldi, but am not enough familiar to say -- it's not any of the recordings I have of the piece.
Rainy but not raining -- dark closing in, unlike clear days when the twilight hangs until 11 pm.
It is now 9:25 time for a "wash"
10:10 on board the flight -- once again looking out over the wing.
[with asymmetrical sketch:] lay out of city by lights
What causes white glow across northern horizon? Dawn? or the moon?
5:45 [a.m. on 14 vii 06] descending into Toronto
the horizon for a brief time
brilliantly banded
now a diffused muddy purple
[drawing]
orange
What I thought at first were many small lakes
resolve in the growing
light as the patterns of fields
made obscure by thin cloud
[drawing]
passengers travelling to Phda E gate in Terminal 2
1:15 hrs for connection
7:14 in AC Jazz 7910, mobile off.
Bombadier CRJ1001200 series regional Jet
[drawing, labelled] FOG IN RIVER VALLEYS
[drawing, labelled] Tall cloud in center
standing out from main mass
[drawing, labelled] River dam? highway
Great curve of mts
"local conditions in Phida It's 23 [degrees] -- that's about 76 Fahrenheit... Il-y-a vingt-trois degrais, c'est sixante-sept Fahrenheit --" and you thought the basic conversion was tricky!
9:30 am waiting outside the terminal in Phda for Karl and Dad -- they are near Longwood Gardens, about 25 minutes away.
Saw Stu to Ferry at 7
Off to Ferry myself with Ellie & kids --
BORDER TERRIER posted cards at BOWEN [unhappily without thinking that Canadian standard postcard rate would not be sufficient to take the cards to the USA] %7.55 for 8 stamps; was issued 9, returned one.
Whole Foods Market.com
Tara's orthodontic app't.
7.16 Greenbus @ Burrard
7:29 46 59 wooden burl crown
www.circlecraft.net
MAIWAHANDPRINTS
717-xxx-xxxx Dad's mobile look for Dad around 8:30
cooked hasty dinner -- Gaeng Kari Tua & Papadums
5:50 left for ferry
6:12 on ferry eating dinner c/o Ellie's travel mug
257 EXPRESS BUS OR 250 TO GEORGIA & BURRARD THEN WALK TO FAIRMONT
HOTEL VANCOUVER ON BURRARD
CATCH AIRPORTER TO
INTERNATIONAL DEPARTURES
GATE
40 6:55 7:35 Out of the ferry by 6:40 Now waiting for 6:55 bus 257 downtown
6:55 leaving horseshoe bay 7:01 passing caulfeild [sic] where Tara and I went in Safeway
7:03 cypress creek @ 12 min past Lions Gate Bridge
7:08 entering West Van -- quite a posh neighborhood today. Ellie Mackay grew up here
Overheard on the GVTA radio:
"The crying relieved owner has retrieved her possessions"
A CAA office -- in West Van at Park Royal (where we went to Whole Foods this after) near Taylor Way & Marine Drive -- west of this intersection)
Across the Capilano river 7:16 looks like cobbles -- Lions Gate Bridge 7:17 towards Stanley Pk
7:21 in the heart of Stanley Pk -- now snarled in traffic.
"Yikes! Okay, 10-4. You do realize that that was an hour ago." "Yes. I'm sorry." "It's okay -- you just have to get up to the ferry."
&:24 out of Stanley Park
"Just so you know, the Bowen is down a few minutes so your passengers should be fine."
WELCOME TO VANCOUVER A NUCLEAR WEAPONS FREE ZONE
Now on Georgia St 7:46
on the Green Airporter
sign downtown Vancouver: "BAIT CARS ARE EVERYWHERE Your Local Police"
Granville Bridge 8:08 p
Crossing over Granville Island
"Trying to get hold of Fred; we can hear him, but he can't hear us"
"Tell him to bring the portable radio in when he finishes his run. It needs to charge."
"That could be hard 'cause he doesn't have a phone."
"Who's closest to 41st[?]"
"Stop at 41[st]"
"Inbound or outbound[?]"
"Going to airport"
"Will they have bags or a hat or flag you down?"
8:54 passed through security at YVR with boarding passes; luggage checked -- now for some sustenance -- almost 2 hours to wait! flight AirCanada 0156 gate c41, ET seat 25A
boarding time 10:05
STARBUCKS $7.73 date bar, 175g fat free yogurt, double cappuccino
Starbucks has two longhouse posts in front of it; the music is Vivaldi & Handel
the multiple tile color thing
Bus driver on Airporter most entertaining, shouting "airport" in Hong Kong accent at each stop.
Now it's Wendy/Walter Carlos realization of a baroque piece -- no, it's someone else doing it -- this has real violins and recorders. I think it's vivaldi, but am not enough familiar to say -- it's not any of the recordings I have of the piece.
Rainy but not raining -- dark closing in, unlike clear days when the twilight hangs until 11 pm.
It is now 9:25 time for a "wash"
10:10 on board the flight -- once again looking out over the wing.
[with asymmetrical sketch:] lay out of city by lights
What causes white glow across northern horizon? Dawn? or the moon?
5:45 [a.m. on 14 vii 06] descending into Toronto
the horizon for a brief time
brilliantly banded
now a diffused muddy purple
[drawing]
orange
What I thought at first were many small lakes
resolve in the growing
light as the patterns of fields
made obscure by thin cloud
[drawing]
passengers travelling to Phda E gate in Terminal 2
1:15 hrs for connection
7:14 in AC Jazz 7910, mobile off.
Bombadier CRJ1001200 series regional Jet
[drawing, labelled] FOG IN RIVER VALLEYS
[drawing, labelled] Tall cloud in center
standing out from main mass
[drawing, labelled] River dam? highway
Great curve of mts
"local conditions in Phida It's 23 [degrees] -- that's about 76 Fahrenheit... Il-y-a vingt-trois degrais, c'est sixante-sept Fahrenheit --" and you thought the basic conversion was tricky!
9:30 am waiting outside the terminal in Phda for Karl and Dad -- they are near Longwood Gardens, about 25 minutes away.
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