Travel


1. When you arrive, ask information for where the “192 Airport Rocket Bus” departs. For Terminal 3, the bus stop should be outdoors on the arrivals level, across the first lane of traffic at post #13c . You might have to wait 20 minutes so dress warmly.
2. Have $2.75 $3.00 Canadian ready. If you don’t have it, buy some chips or a drink or ask someone for change, or ask at the information counter if they sell TTC Tokens or TTC Tickets (TTC=Toronto Transit, the tokens and tickets are $2.75).
3. Take the “192 Airport Rocket” bus to Kipling Station. Pay the driver $2.75 $3.00 when you board the bus (or pay with a token)–this one fare takes you all the way to our apartment. From Terminal 3, the bus first passes by terminal 1 and some other stops, but don’t worry, you’ll know that it’s Kipling Station because the bus will pull in and everyone will get off and go inside the station. The Airport Rocket just goes from Kipling to the Airport and back with only a few stops in between. The ride is about 20 minutes.
4. Go inside the Kipling station and down into the subway–you don’t have to pay anything extra.
5. Take the subway EAST to Dundas West station–Kipling is the end station, so you can ONLY go east.
6. At Dundas West station, go upstairs and outside following the signs that say “Buses and Streetcars”. Do not go through any exit turnstiles–there is a waiting area for the buses/streetcars so you can transfer without paying an additional fee.
7. Take the 504 King Street streetcar south to our Apt. You will pass Howard Park and you get off at Geoffrey St.

My dear friend Renzo has been in town for a few days, on loan to us from his job in the math department at University of Michigan. Renzo is on a job-hunting and speaking tour in the final year of his post-doc, looking for a tenure-track position at a number of universities. The University of Western Ontario in London is interviewing him tomorrow, and I’m sure they’ll find him a great addition to their staff. I’m not sure about the photo. I don’t know him to have a birthmark, so I assume that’s water on his face, or perhaps war paint.

Here’s my video from the Recent Octopus Project I: Pink Octopus show.

The video shows clips and photos from our recent trip through Mexico narrated by me in a monologue about beachcombing.

The Baja beach portion of our trip finally came to a close. Ten full days of sunshine, an occasional break from the wind to catch fish or go snorkeling, hikes into the canyons on foot and mule-back, and we had relaxed and recharged, ready to move on to La Paz and from there to the Mexican mainland. The only trouble was getting from our lonely beachside outpost, up the 20-mile dirt road to the Baja Highway 1 where we could catch a bus.

So for an investment of a thousand miles of driving and two weeks of on-the-road and camping adventure, we had two good days of weather in Bella Coola, the first on the day we arrived, and the second yesterday on our trip to the Hot Springs of South Bentick.

Today, Saturday, broke with rain on my tent yet again, and we decided to pack it in, call it a day, call it a trip, and head for home. Lucky we did, too, because the top of the pass heading east from Bella Coola was starting to get snowed and nasty. My first taste of winter. And only September!

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