During a business trip to Victoria, I was given the opportunity to travel back to Vancouver in a Sikorsky S76A helicopter. Picture Trump's Helicopter minus it being all pimped out. At first I thought nothing of it but as I began to lift off and fly over the water, I thought to myself this is truly the only way to fly.

As I travel over Victoria, I came to the realization that you see more of the world below you than if you were to travel over the same piece of land in a 747. It's not every day you see how large our farm lands are. Or how big Richmond and Vancouver really is. I went through a few emotions while I was traveling over the Lower Mainland. It was amazing to see how blue the water is but quite sad to see how murky it was the closer to land we came. Just to see the drastic change from blue to brown when we reached Richmond was unbelievable. From Richmond, we went around YVR. You really don't get the opportunity to see what YVR looks like from a plane. You don't get to see how small it really is. From there we travel over Vancouver and around the UBC Endowment lands. Again from the ground UBC seem so big yet the surrounded area is so small. That is further from the truth. From above you can see how small the campus is in relations to forest surrounding it. I never imagine how much trees we had in that area. Onwards we travelled towards Stanley Park before we landed at the Downtown harbour.

Absolutely amazing. An incredible ride. Not quite as fast as a plane but why bother with the long strip of land require for take off when you could just lift off the ground. Definitely a lot safer and more fun. I would taking flying in a helicopter over an airplane any day.