Streetcars and smarts

Up for breakfast at The Dutch Dog with communal breakfast of pancakes. We plan to take the Skytrain elevated railway into Vancouver but there is no parking at the stations so we drive. We circulate round Stanley Park seeing the totem poles and are early enough to miss the crowds on B.C. day. We go in search of the Downtown Historic Railway which is a hidden gem not in the guidebooks. Parking is free and it is $2 to ride the 100-year old streetcar to Granville Island, which is a busy resort area. The railway runs close to where the Molson Indy cars used to race and the future site of the winter Olympic village.
We cross the Lion's Gate Bridge to North Vancouver and spend the night, taking supper at a Vietnamese restaurant. Next morning we take the smart for 8,000 km service in Burnaby before starting the trip back east. Out of town via Hope and now in Princeton, BC in the Okanagan for early overnight stop and essential laundry in this charming western town.