The Other Side

Growing up in North Vancouver and being slightly car-averse (seriously, it’s kind of scary when I drive), I never really went anywhere else in the Lower Mainland other than the city back to the North Shore. I knew the 210 bus line very intimately (we had to get downtown to drink beer with our cool “downtown boyfriends,” after all) but other than that, I never really got into the other ‘burbs on the other side of the city, other than for some quick swim meets or soccer games. Fortunately, that’s where Alicia comes in. She grew up in Port Coquitlam and quickly gave me the rundown on what I needed to know about the “other side” of the city. I tried...