Sunday, August 11, 2013

I'm on a boat

We got up pretty early to head out to our next stop: Sidney, British Columbia. And I’m going to blame the early hour for not being able to find the subway station, getting off the train at the wrong stop, and getting lost on the way to the bus station. Rough morning.

But we managed to make it to the ferry station with plenty of time. But before we get to that, let me show you what a metro train looks like in Canada.


Pay your taxes, people. We could have this.

Now to the ferry station. It was amazing. It had the similar, but vaguely different, feeling of Stanley Kubrick’s space port in A Space Odyssey. It was almost like an airport, but not quite.


Now, as a desert dweller, anything to do with the water brings out my inner 12 year old. I was outside in the rain snapping photos left and right.


The ferry ride itself was surprisingly nice. The boat lived up to the cleanliness and quality of every other mode of Canadian public transportation that we had seen so far.


And anybody from the east coast or northwest probably wouldn’t be impressed, but cars on boats? Mind blowing.


The scenery pulling into Sidney was amazing. 



We didn’t know a thing about the place, but we knew that we’d be just fine.