Heading to Vancouver

Well, I’m here – the UX Intensive coonference in Vancouver, BC.  The trip has been over the horizon for so long, but I finally made it.  I’m actually pretty psyched to make it here – I’ve wanted to come to Vancouver for years, but it has never worked out.  Heck, I’ve never made it to Canada, so Vancouver would be a stretch.  And this conference is a pretty cool event that I’m really looking forward to.

It wasn’t the most direct of flights – I’m not sure HOW it makes sense to go from Philly to Dallas to Vancouver, but somehow the airlines thought it made sense.  But even though it took 10 hours to get here, it wasn’t all bad.   The Cowboys won and I got to watch a <em>whole 5 minutes</em> of the game, I met a pretty cool woman who made the flight much more bearable (the alternative would have been watching “Hairspray” – no thanks).

I’m also looking forward to getting out to bird at some point, although I might have to rearrange my stay for a bit so that I can get out while it’s daylight – my conference runs most of the day, so short of running out at lunch, I will have little opportunity to get out.  Of course, it’s raining tonight so birding in the morning probably isn’t in the cards anyway.

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3 Responses to “Heading to Vancouver

  • Vancouver is a place I’ve been wanting to see as well. i learned to play rugby from a big dude from Vancouver. i also always liked when the Vancouver score is on the scoreboard ticker at the bottom of the page, because it’s always abbreviated VAN, so it looks like I’m beating the entire city of Edmonton.

  • Wow, that sounds cool. I’m jealous. I could really use a chance to get away, even if for a conference. I hope you enjoy yourself.

  • it’s been cool so far – the city is pretty nice, although the area leading up to Stanley Park looks a little rough. I just posted the day 1 stuff and I’m going to write Day 2 in a little bit.

    LOL … VAN beating the entire city of Edmonton. They’d love to see that tomorrow night – I’ve even considered getting tickets.

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