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Secrets of Vancouver, BC The best places to visit within a week.

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10034 Vancouver :

other tourist spots

South Lake Tahoe : a winter adventure

Departments 9 Editors Letter 17 Short Stories 24 Ask Us 150 My Favorite Place

Features 10 Vancouver Seeing how others travel and experience new

things is just the beginning of the adventure. So take a look at her journey in the great place of Vancouver, BC.

18 New York New York Traveling as a group is always a different

experience to travel. So time to hear from a dance team who traveled to New York and what they got to experience.

40 Middle Madness Ready for the heat well take a look at the Midwest.

Whether it’s seeing Roswell for the aliens or going to Ruidosa to get out of town and into the wilderness. It’s time to experience something new. See how these people went outside their comfort zone and entered a whole new world.

100 South Lake Tahoe What are you able to do in Tahoe? Well among

many winter sports such as skiing, snow boarding or sledding. Read and find out more interesting things to do during the winter or summer.

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From the time I was a child I enjoyed hearing stories of people’s adventures. So I decided to create this magazine that encompasses stories of peoples adventures and recommendations from different destinations. This is our first official print of this magazine so it was a real joy to contact people who’ve had dramatic as well interesting stories. We plan to continue having people’s input into the magazine so if you have a stories to tell email me at [email protected]!

Our first issue is going to be of stories from people between the ages of 18-26 and in North America and in time we will have stories from people ranging from all over the world. We wanted to keep it somewhere close to home to help capture our audience. We thought that by keeping it close to home people will be able to relate to the stories being told. I hope that you all enjoy all these intriguing stories and events within this magazine. As well as the photography that we have put together for you to represent the countries in the best light we can.

Growing up the thing that I would enjoy looking at while I was in a new place was seeing all the different people who were in the place I was at and trying to make up stories for what could be their reason for being here.

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Day 1victoria iS the next StoP on the cruise ship circuit) There are also two huge hotels, the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Center, an I-Max Theatre and the prerequi-site underground shopping center.

Most outstanding, both literally and figuratively, is the extension of Canada Place into Burrard Inlet which facilitates a spectacular panoramic view of the whole region. Looking across to the left, one can see the slopes of West Vancouver and just straight across the water is beautiful Van-couver North. Looking back, one has a splendid view towards the downtown.

Towards Stanley Park is Coal Harbour with its Seawalk that gives a lovely view of all over the Vancouver area. If you are in for a little adventure just follow the sea walk till you get to the underpass towards the aquarium. There you get to see beautiful trees blooming and a memorial for the Japanese war.

Ferry from Swartz Bay to Tsawwassan (Van.). Beautifully lined with stylish high-rise condominiums, it is one of Canada’s great city vistas-at least in the top five – the other four are in Vancouver as well! It is here that we get an introduction to that which Vancouver is famous for – a marriage

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photography by: nicole Kidman

between sea, mountains, spectacular city scape, all of which are represented in disproportionate dimensions here, making for a scene full of impact and grandeur.

All that aside, the real reason I went to Canada Place is because there is a Tourist Office located here. [My friend and I ran into a little bit of trouble trying to find it]. One thing that would have been helpful is a map but we didn’t have one. You’d think since she lived here she’d know where it was haha. I think without the map we ended up seeing lots of the downtown area that was probably not mentioned so it ended up working out well. She knew that it was a tall building with a round tower top unfortunately there are just a couple that look like that! It’s fair to say that we got a good work out! After seeing lots of gorgeous architecture and scenic views we finally made it to the Harbour Center and tourist office.

Speaking of panoramic views, once we made it up the Harbour Center Lookout Tower we were able to see a bird’s eye view of all of Vancouver. Normally this costs about $15 Canadian dollars but because my friend had a job the previous summer and won this awesome prize that let her and one friend into all the tourist spots for

My first stop was Canada Place, an outstanding landmark and symbol of the city located on the waterfront of Burrard Inlet. With its distinctive architecture that mimics the vast expanse of white sails of a turn of the century “tall ship”, it is appropriate that it is also the Cruise Ship Terminal that pours hundreds of thousands of tourists annually into this beautiful city.

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free. I say it is totally worth seeing this but I’m not really sure if it is worth $15. The day was a little sunny but there was haze as well but still totally gorgeous view. As you look around you are able to see churches, Stanley park and much much more in fact I got to see the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Just east of Canada Place is a sentimental favorite of mine, the old Canadian Pacific Railway Station (see Victoria -The Empress Hotel). Since the railway stopped carrying passengers a long time ago, it no longer serves that purpose but it has been restored and serves as a transpor-tation hub. As a result, it is now the entry point for a variety of transportation means such as the Seabus Terminal which provides ferry service for passage across Burrard Inlet to Vancouver North.

It is also the terminal for the West Coast Express (Vancouver’s answer to Toronto’s Go Train) and finally, near-by is Waterfront Station for the Skytrain (rapid transit system) which ironically at this point is not elevated but underground. This is one of the easiest ways to get around besides the

busses of course it does get expensive especially if you don’t have a pass because it costs $1.75 a ride for 2 hours and it is all done electrically so there is no way to fake the time.

Day 2I chose to continue my tour by turning east to the historic Gastown dis-trict (as a result of Buenos Aires I am still tempted to say “barrio”) located just two blocks from Canada Place, bordered by Water Street and Hastings St. (hopefully you picked up a brochure at the tourist office).

Similar to Old Montreal or Yorkville, it is a place to hang out and enjoy the atmosphere. It is famous for its galleries, cafes, loft studios, pubs and clubs. It is said to have gotten its name from a pioneer, John Deighton—alias “Gassy Jack” of whom a statute is located at the other end of the district.

Stanley ParkVancouver’s first park and one of the city’s main tourist attrac-tions, Stanley Park is an evergreen oasis of 400 hectares (1,000 acres) close to the downtown core.

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An historical plaque located in Gastown says“ through the early 1900’s Gastown was the commercial center of Vancouver. By the 1960’s, it had become the centre of Vancouver’s “Skid Road”. In the early 1970’s it was rehabilitated to its former stature.”

Day 3Specifically this is the area on the north end of Main St. around Hastings St. In Gastown, a new attraction since my last visit is Storyeum, which according to the brochure, is a theatrical adventure, live and underground. “Enter a massive lift and descend beneath the streets of Gastown (talk about “high overhead”), your tour guide will take you through seven historic passages in British Columbia’s history”. The tourist office sells tickets for most attrac-tions at a discount so enquire it you are the type that plans ahead.

The main attraction is, and still remains, something that is absolutely free for your enjoyment. It is the turn of the century steam clock that stands at the corner of Water St. and Seymour. Beautiful in its appearance, majestic in its size and fasci-nating in its functionality, ultra unique in its presentation, it continues to fascinate tourists through the ages.

At this point it was my intention to take the Sea bus across Burrard Inlet to Lonsbury Quay in Vancouver North and walk a few blocks to a German bakery which used to sell real “Laugen” (refers to a type of dough) Prezels as they are made in Stuttgart, Baden-Wuertemberg-the home of the real pretzels (until someone corrects me).

Day 4 There is a German bakery here in Victo-ria but the only resemblance their pretzels have to the real “Laugen Pretzel” is the shape. Of course, other than the pretzels, the view I spoke of from the end of Canada Place is even better from the ferry, but con-sidering the restrictions of a one-day visit I had to “lamantablamente” relinquish both on the pretzels and the view.


After a bit of lunch at historic Sinecure Place I walked south-west on Granville Street which almost passes for a pedestrian mall due to its wide, tree lined sidewalks. Come to think of it, that’s what downtown Vancouver lacks, a good old pedestrian mall in the “genre” of avenida Florida, in Buenos Aires, or La Rue Neuve, in Brussels.

Taking this a step further, one has to face the reality of this beautiful city and that would be the many homeless people that one sees here. The creation of a pedes-trian mall would perhaps be considered by city planners as too much of a magnet for people looking for a pleasant place to hang out. As I alluded to earlier, Vancouver is presently wrestling with how to retake the streets of parts of the Downtown East side from the economically disadvantaged and the drug dependently challenged in time for the approaching Winter Olym-pics. That would be the subject of another report as there are several interesting proposals and initiatives under way within the city.

Well until my next journey bye for now.


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I was visiting a friend in Vancouver and we wanted to go out to a bar so we started pre drinking with some of her friends. We are all ready to leave so we take public transporta-tion to the bar super drunk! After that point I don’t remember a thing, but apparently I was on the bar taking shots and dancing the night away. Waking up the next morning I couldn’t stop throwing up but at least I wasn’t the only one hung over.

» Drunk Dancing.

I went to New York with my best friend and we decided we should give our respects for those who lost their lives in September 2001. We get there and my friend sud-denly says, “what is all this crap on the ground why is it so destroyed?“ I turned around and almost hit her! She then realized that this was where the towers stood. She turned bright red and didn’t say another word.

» My friends’ an idiot.

I live in the city of San Francisco but I’d never made it down to Pier 39 so I was feeling adventurous. As I got to the pier I start walking as I’m walk-ing this man jumps out of no where and is covered in trees! I screamed so loud and all the tourists laughed because they’d heard of this man… the bush man. I guess I should read about tourists spots next time.

» Scary Bushman.

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I was walking down the street in San Francisco when out of know where this pigeon flies directly into my HEAD! I just started jumping around flinging my arms up in the air and screaming. All the people around me thought I was crazy, I felt so stupid. I then went and had to sit down because I was hyperventilating. Note to self: pigeons aren’t scared of you!

» Spinning round.

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New York, New York

written by: Serena Waldorf

photography by: Sue Kendall

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We all Boarded the Plane with extreme enthusiasm of course it was at the crack of dawn soooo before we boarded we all ran to the McDonalds or Starbucks {which-ever people wanted}. Anyway after a good wake up call we giggled and started the camera fest on the plane. We were lucky got to sit as a group. Upon arriving I boarded one of two busses to take us into the city. The sites as we drove in were nice but nothing compared to what I would see.

The hotel was something else, in the heart of the city which was very convenient. The plans for the week there where to see two shows and as many sites as possible, start-ing with Central Park.

The best part of this whole trip, besides going with my dance team, my best friends where with me as well as my sister and Mum. Wouldn’t get any better than that! Staying up all night talking the night away.

Central Park Omg I’m here! NEW YORK CITY!!! I walked to the park with my friends admiring all the buildings and the people. I’ve never seen so many pretzel stands before! It sucks that I don’t like pretzels, oh well more for the others.

The park was HUGE we were here in March so that’s spring so the leaves on the trees were just starting to come back. With-out the leaves the trees look glorious in fact I made one my home {of course as a joke see I grew up climbing trees for fun}. It was so peaceful here I was in my own world. We walked towards the center and found a carrousel and it looked so epic as all us girls felt like we were kids spin-ning around and around. My friend and I

New York, New York

Well here I am, another city just 1441.354 miles f rom home. L iving in l i t t le old Katy, Texas I never thought I’d get the chance to see THE GREAT BIG CITY. I never even thought I’d get to go with a school group any where again.


decided to wonder off for a bit and enjoyed taking photographs of each other for our memory. As we were doing this of course I trip and fall into a bush… it kinda hurt… haha but she got a good kick out of it.

Continuing on in the park we went to this huge fountain that is apparently called the marriage fountain {or something along those lines}. People come to this fountain to get proposed to or married. It doesn’t surprise me why you wouldn’t come here to get proposed to because it is truly gorgeous. Especially because the architecture is very intricate and ornate.

The next stop in the park was Strawberry Fields [memorial] the story behind this is that it’s a memorial for John Lennon {who if you don’t know is from the Beatles}. It was designed by Bruce Kelly and his widow inaugurated it on his 45th birth-day. The memorial starts at Central Park West which is near 72nd street across from Dakota Apartments where he lived and was murdered. The most important part of the memorial is the imagine mosaic in the middle. There is a homeless man named Gary dos Santos who every day decorates the mosaic with flowers and objects. We were lucky enough to meet him and compli-ment his work which must take a lot of time. He is a very sweet man, he’s especially very friendly so he didn’t mind a bunch of girls complimenting him and asking him to take a photo with him. Haha, I think he liked that a lot actually.

The last stop in the park was this cute little restaurant that actually was bordering an exit to the park. The inside was all olden style which included pattern wall paper and colors of creams and tan colors. It also lots of chandeliers unfortunately we weren’t able to eat there because it was of course closed! But we got to go outside and check out the amazing animal shaped bushes! A lot of us had fun being animated in front of them and taking photographs with them.

BroadwayAnyway enough of that time for the fun part! Hitting up Broadway! Hairspray & Legally Blonde Two different nights but they were both amazing! I was even able to meet some of the cast backstage! Hairspray was the best and I was actually able to meet the cast and someone you might know is Ashley Parker Angel {from that tv show on MTV} yep he was Link Larkin! He was super chill and nice he let me take a photograph with him and he even signed my playbill! HOW AWESOME!! After the show we went walking around and almost saw Clay Akin so strange! Legally Blonde was pretty good but the cast wasn’t really worth waiting to see haha. The sets were amazing for both of them though.

Nights Out One night we all got dressed up fancy and went to dinner as a group and the place we went to eat at was a diner but a little higher class and we had our own performances. Most of the servers were BROADWAY PER-FORMERS!!! So we go to listen to them sing and dance while we ate! It was AMAZING! You don’t get to see that everyday! But anyway before we got there my friend got called a slut because she was in a dress and hot red {hooker heels} haha the part that was the most funny was someone said it to her in SPANISH and the women didn’t think she could understand her. Another night We walked around time square and


tried to go to this cute place that was doing karaoke of course we didn’t know you had to be 21 so that kinda spoiled the fun. So we decided to make our own fun. We stood outside the place and started singing Spice Girls at the top of our lungs. That isn’t hard especially because there was about five of us. It was rather embarrassing but oh well you only live once haha!!

In the next couple days we got to hit up China town, the remains of the Twin Towers/ memorial, Rockeffler Center {where I saw Tina Fay filming 30 Rock}, Empire state Building and Lady Liberty.

On our second to last day there we went to a dance class and that was intense espe-cially because a lot of us were seniors and hadn’t been dancing as hard as we used to. That was great experience though.

Over all this was an amazing trip and I was able to take so much back from it. When I get the chance I’m going back and hope-fully have as much fun as I did then.

So I guess this is buy for now and hope to hear from you soon. If you want to read more blogs go to [email protected]

» Serena Waldorf


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