So after my dodgy stay in the worst hostel I've stayed in so far, I thought my start would be easy as I was just round the corner from the bus station, I was packed and had my ticket! So I got there for 5:30 in the morning ready for my 6am bus and grinned at the queue waiting for their tickets and headed to the bus only to be stopped by security to get a luggage tag!! So I had to join the massive queue to get my luggage tag, I made the bus by 2 minutes, that defi...

So I had my first experience of a greyhound bus and it's true, they do give newly released prisoners greyhound passes, I met one with his little plastic bag of belongings and his opening introduction to me was that he had been released from prison that day!!! So I arrived about 10pm in Vacouver and didnt have a clue where I was going, I got a ticket for the skytrain and started heading in the direction I thought was my hostel. A guy on the train started talking ...