So for the last weekend there, I took one of the best things Canada has to offer - hiking. Being in a mountain-sea port the time was coming to hit the trail. And enjoy V’s beautiful vistas from up there, as you can see in the pictures above 🤣. Not expecting anything, there was someone up top to congratulate me on not tripping on loose gravel. The last pic is just some alien spaceship landing and coloring the air with its massive, red jet bursts. ha.
I never said Canada is perfect. Of course it isn’t. As many developed nations it suffers a lot of problems … housing crisis, opioid crisis, industry against nature or reconciliation with indigenous past.
What surprised me the most is the general condition of homeless in Vanc. Unlike polish smelly, dissolved in alcohol men or New York’s half-zombified heroinists, folks in Vanc supprise you with how tidy and clean they keep themselves. (Usually inhabiting tents in less popular parks.) Or their manners - trying to earn a honest loonie by holding the door for you when you go to Horton’s for a cup of coffee.
