Vacation, time to get away

Got 10,829 steps in for vacation day one.  Expect I may not clear the goal with so much airplane time today, but maybe with all the airport trekking.

Day one was a triumph of mass transit mastery.  Due to setting a fairly leisure schedule, I was able to roll down to the International District on Metro, and have time for lunch at the Thai Place. Fremont has good thai food, but I have missed Owajimaya.  The BoltBus was super easy, and had plenty of room.  Wifi was dicey, but their entertainment app offered a few movies I'd been meaning to see that ran without incident.  From the Greyhound station in Vancouver caught the elevated train to a few blocks from my hotel.  Feeling super self sufficient with the gettin' around so far.

It really feels like vacation when you realize you're running free while everyone else is at work.  All dressed up in my colorful traveling layers toting luggage while others are running out to pick up lunch they'll eat back at their desks. Maybe that's why I like city trips as much or maybe more than the tropical ones.  Wandering thru the work a day world not as a participant but apart.  An interloper roaming free.

Felt inexplicably tired by the time I arrived, so fit in a little rest before roaming around the neighborhood in search of food.  Landed an a pub for muscles and cider, then called it a night.  Not much in the way of shenanigans, but it was only a Tuesday night.

Dithered between fancy or quick for breakfast this morning, and ended up at Tim Horton's, embracing the local.  Sausage biscuit sandwich is bomb, and I approve of their standard latte.  Sound decision making starting off day two.
 
I need to get to work reading Ulysses, but keep diverting to my sci-fi options. Apparently, my vacation will be narrated by Wil Wheaton.  Bouncing back and forth between Scalzi's The Collapsing Empire and Ready Player One by Cline is a bit disorienting.  Should really just pick one and finish it on the flight.

Speaking of, about time to head to YVR.  Yesterday I left the US, and today I bid farewell to North America.