... N e w W e s t m i n s t e r T r a v e l ...
... Inherit ...
New Westminster is a town centrally
located in Vancouver, BC,
on the North-West
Fraser River banks. It used to be the capital of BC, that
somehow continues to live more or less unchanged. It is a town that lives
with the pace of its pensioners.
I’ve spent there over three years, living Uptown, around the
library that has the best collection of CDs in the city! Near there, right
in the center at “6th and 6th”, there is a small
shopping mall I later learnt was designed by the company where I work now.
As a ritual, every Saturday I was spending my early afternoon hours there
at the food court, savoring the best Chinese food in the city! Later, a
Japanese restaurant with good food was opened at the same food court, so I
started alternating between the two. The Chinese place, admittedly, was a
little better for one thing: it had a better view opening at the central
court. It wasn’t for its
architecture or interior design that was making
the view exciting, it was for its visitors. Every time I would sit there I
was amazed by the faces and forms of those white headed pensioners, walking
very slowly, pulling me deep into their times and experiences with their
weathered, spotted hands. It always amazed me what can nature do with human
bodies. There for the first time I realized how a perfect body can be really
boring!
So, my pensioners would park their life supporting devices next to
the food court chairs and take me along the
Fraser River promenades, to a
ride on paddle wheelers still docked at the
Westminster Quay, through the
Queens Park
neighborhood that looks like a smaller version of the exclusive
Shaughnessy in
Vancouver, through the past of
BC…
From time to time I still return there for a good meal of Chinese
food and the amazing ride on the past times…
