In July 1997, I drove from the San Francisco Bay Area to Vancouver with a friend. Our plan was to spend three days in Vancouver, then continue east to the prairies and finally drive back into the US and return home to Berkeley, California.
That was the plan, but that’s not what happened because I couldn’t leave Vancouver. Three days stretched into three weeks and would have stretched on indefinitely had we not been two people and two dogs in the small house of a friend. Only when we had worn out our welcome did we, reluctantly, leave.
Once back in California, I vowed that some day I would figure out a way to move to Vancouver. The opportunity came sooner than I expected.
In August I had to start thinking about the new semester. I was teaching at a community college in the Silicon Valley and had to prepare for the fall semester.
On my first day back to work, I had a meeting with my boss. It wasn’t a happy event, and I left the meeting wondering how I would ever make it through the year.
I was depressed for the rest of the day and evening, and I went to bed very unhappy.
The moment I awoke the following morning, I knew I was moving to Vancouver, and I knew I was doing it immediately.
It took about three weeks to rent my house, sell my convertible, find a place to live in Vancouver and arrangements to work half time designing and building an online learning environment for the college, something I had wanted to do anyhow and something I could do remotely.
The move was an unqualified success. I designed the online learning environment and then used it for two and a half years to teach my classes in the Silicon Valley from Vancouver.
In 2000, I quit my job in California and devoted myself to promoting my adopted city by starting and developing a website for visitors to Vancouver, www.bcpassport.com.
In 2003, I converted a section of the site to a website of its own, Canadian Rockies Trains.
Since that time, thousands of travelers have told us what they’re looking for in a Canadian Rockies vacation, and our packages, many of them unique, reflect the interests, time and budgets of our clients.
Thanks for visiting canadianrockiestrains.com and for taking the time to learn more about us. We appreciate the chance to hear from you and work with you.
Susan Adrian
www.canadianrockiestrains.com
107-1531 Lonsdale Avenue
North Vancouver, BC
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