It all started from a dream

On December 17, 2010 I woke up to a dream of seeing the ocean.  As I've never seen it before , nor spent time by the mountains I wanted this to be something I needed to do before 2010 was through.  And so I put it on my bucket list, laughingly going to work like any other day.  Dreary grey skies lurked above me, running and going nowhere always ending up feeling unfulfilled.  For years I belonged to someone, played by their rules and sometimes defiant in my own I entered the office at about 8:15 am and sat at my desk.  The feeling didn't leave me and it had gripped me hard.  So I did some research .. and by 9:45 am EST I had purchased my ticket , return (unfortunately) to the Pacific Coastline in Vancouver.  By 11:15 am I had a hotel room booked as well at an incredibly cheap rate of $ 39.00 / night!

Now that I am back in Toronto, I have several hundred photographs to go through and had documented most of it, met lots of amazing people and regained my self worth again.  There is nothing more powerful in life that the ominous beauty of the planet in which we live in.  I also learned you can't run from your troubles, because they ultimately will follow you until you can deal with them effectively.

Over the next while I will be posting photographs and some stories of my journey!!  Hope you'll follow my blog----> 

These are the cities and towns from which I follow through to get to the Ocean:

TORONTO

Barrie

Port Severn

Parry Sound

McDougall

SUDBURY

Espanola

Blind River

SAULT STE MARIE

Wawa

White River

Marathon

THUNDER BAY

Upsula

Dryden

Kenora

WINNIPEG

Brandon

Wapella

Broadview

Indian head

REGINA

Moosejaw

Herbert

Swift Current

Medicine Hat

CALGARY

Golden

Revelstoke

Sicamous

Salmon arm

KELOWNA

KAMPLOOPS

CHILLIWACK

VANCOUVER

Yorkdale Subway Station

Yorkdale Subway Station

The Yorkdale Subway Station is on the Yonge – University – Spadina line of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). It was opened in 1978 and serves about 24,000 people a day.  As you can guess most of them shoppers to the Yorkdale Shopping Centre.

At the south east corner of the lot, you can get connections to GO transit and Greyhound buses as well as Airport shuttles.  There are also 1144 parking spaces for your convenience.

Yorkdale Shopping Mall

The Yorkdale Shopping Centre is the 5^th largest mall in Canada and has over 260 stores, with over 7,000 parking spaces for shoppers and most of these spaces are full as there are over a half a million people who shop there a week!

There is also a Rainforest Café onsite which has a simulated thunderstorm every 30 minutes and is decorated with waterfalls and other depictions of the elements of the rainforest.  Their menu is chicken, pasta, pizzas and seafood and beef.  There is also a strange tradition of yelling "Volcano" when somebody orders a  volcano ice cream sundae.

Also onsite is the Silver City movie theatre (10 theatres in all)as well a large Indigo Bookstore.  In 2005 there was a 60 million dollar expansion put into the old Eaton’s store that once was there made room for 40 more stores.  Great time to get into the holiday spirit now and shop till you drop!

Personally, I like the quieter, less busy malls, but in Toronto there are enough choices to get out there.