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Thursday, August 31, 2023

One thing we recognized is that Vancouver is a fun city – and we hadn’t had nearly enough time to explore. The only real “tourist” thing we did on Thursday was ride the “Hop on, Hop off” bus, which we tend to do any time we visit a new city. They give you an overview of the place and help you identify things you might want to check out (assuming you have enough time).

It was a little frustrating at first. Instead of plugging headphones into the system on the bus as happened previously, you connected your smartphone to the App. The problem is that the persons selling the tickets weren’t very good at offering instructions, so we missed the narrative about the first 3 or 4 stops while we were trying to work that out (and getting increasingly frustrated with it). Eventually, though, the younger ones in our group (our de-facto tech gurus) got us hooked up and able to listen.


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