It’s our last day in Vancouver and I’m catching a little coffee while Tina wanders Robson. Rain be damned, we’re still to make the most of our trip. While I wait I wanted to write about a magical place where up is down and south is north.
Specifically, I’m talking about the parking maze under our hotel (the Sheraton Wall Centre). Now it’s a fine hotel and we like staying there. The views are wonderful and the rooms modern though not cutting edge. But the parking garage, well, that’s another thing altogether.
Check out the picture. Note the column in the foreground clearly marked South Tower. There are many like it in close proximity. One might assume, then, that you are under the south tower. But look in the background and you’ll see a door marked North Tower. You might be shocked, then, to find out that you are actually standing beneath the north -- not south -- tower. This magical confluence of magnetic poles is only apparent once you ride the elevator up and -- viola -- you are transported to a realm unimaginable (presuming you imagined you’d be in the south tower).
Also noteworthy: the levels are labeled on the elevator in the following (descending) order:
- Main
- P2 South Tower
- P1 North Tower
- P2 North Tower
- P3 North Tower
Good luck with that one, my friends. The Bermuda Triangle ain’t got nothing on this one.