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August 24, 2005
Vancouver, B.C.
They have a "sky train" in Vancouver, British Columbia. It's like a monorail, the Yamanote line in Tokyo, maybe, but way less crowded and in the shape of a line, not a circle. Generous public spaces here.
There are bike rentals for the likes of us to scoot oceanside at Stanley Park, dotted with people fishing -- "Look at those!" -- or collecting bottles or rollerblading. Seagulls are fat. A public pool next to the ocean is good for kids, say our friends visiting this city from Japan. They are pleased.
We can hear the whoosh of water lapping against the seawall between chants from the Hare Krishna people, who are running a "Festival of India." (Thin cover for their mass recruitment, of course.) We park to watch the sun shrink and then go dark. Kids are silhouetted now as are the boats, sailing slow like skaters with just the jib unfurled.
Posted by Dipika at August 24, 2005 10:24 PM
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