Exploring on our own

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Breakfast and goodbyes, "safe travels" as the rest of the group headed to the airport. Sylvia, Mark, and I moved our suitcases two blocks to the famous, more traditional Sylvia Hotel. By 9:15 we were headed to London Drug to purchase a transit day pass, catching the next bus to downtown. The public library is in a central location with skylights all around. The Vancouver Art Museum was changing most exhibits but Emily Carr's forest/tree paintings were still there. Bill Reid's Art Gallery was down a few streets with a marvelous collection of his work using First Nation designs. Lunch at a Thai restaurant in Chinatown followed a tour of Dr. Sun-Yat Sen Classical Chinese garden. We finished the afternoon by walking through Gastown in time to see the gas clock blow its whistle And searching for Jimmy Hendrix's shrine - found but closed. Back to the hotel, dinner at Three Brits Pub. Good burger but they put ice in my cider which was strange for a British pub.

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