On my last day in Vancouver I made the arduous bus trip to UBC (the wealthy residents of Point Grey still don’t want a metro in their pristine neighbourhood). It was the first time I had been back to the campus since I stayed for a week in the dorms during the summer of ‘08. The reason I was here this time was for the Nitobe Memorial Gardens. The garden celebrates the memory of Dr. Nitobe a diplomat and author who looked to reduce the cultural distances between Japan and Canada.

The second thing I wanted to visit on campus was the Museum of Anthropology. Unfortunately it was closed for renovations; it looks like I’ll have to schlep out here again in the future.