Location Tour: Squamish, B.C.

[hells_half_acre]

It's Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada, and it also happened to be a gorgeous day. Since Susie believes this will most likely be the LAST gorgeous day before the rainy-season hits, we decided that we should seize the opportunity to drive up to Squamish and Whistler for a nice day trip.

As some of you know, Supernatural S4 episode Wishful Thinking was filmed primarily in Squamish, B.C. So, we decided it would be a nice spot to begin our ongoing Supernatural Location Tour:

The first thing we did was head for Cleaveland St, between Victoria and Winnipeg streets...where the Supernatural crew had changed the Martial Arts and Fitness place into Lucky Chins Chinese Restaurant. It is easy to find, because it is right next to the HotSpot, which can also be seen in the episode.


"Lucky Chins"

During the episode, Sam and Dean stayed in a hotel called "The Chieftan" - this is an actual hotel in Squamish. It is actually RIGHT NEXT TO the location used for "Lucky Chins":



We didn't see it from this angle in the episode though. When Dean exits the hotel, sees Todd for the first time, and then gets an upset stomach, we see the Chieftan from this view:



Next, we went to the Squamish Yacht Club, which stood in for the women's fitness centre in the show:



This is Susie pretending to be Dean reading a newspaper (we did not actually have any props with us though, so you'll have to use your imagination:



And this is yours truely sitting where Jensen Ackles once sat:



(I know that is not a Whippet on my shirt, it's an Octopus, but it is the same COLOURS as Sam's Whippet shirt from S1, so yeah - closest thing I have to a Sam costume. :-P ) And yes...now you guys all know what I look like. The mystery is gone!....ah well.


And finally, this is the boardwalk at the Yacht Club, where Sam and Dean overhear the guy telling the cops about seeing Big Foot:

Comments

[auriliawestlake.livejournal.com]

Sweetness. It's really awesome how you live close enough to go off on all these little day-trips to see stuff like this - and I know I've had to have mentioned it before, but Vancouver has got some seriously beautiful scenery (not as beautiful as my corner of west Texas, though! :-P).

Envy. Yeah, that's the right word for what I'm feeling right now. Sigh.

Well...Maybe when they get around to doing a Supernatural Movie, they'll come down to my neck of the woods - I mean, Kripke always says how this is basically a western, and what's more western than sagebrush, pointy mountains (yes, I said 'pointy', what of it?), and blistering desert sun? Besides, I heard that New Mexico is trying to drum up more interest in filming there - they've cut the entertainment tax to almost nothing (and they've got almost nothing in the way of cigarette taxes - I'm so glad I only live a few miles from the border).

Slaps self.

Dangnabbit - I'm gettin' rambly. Must be gettin' a li'l tired. Glad to see ya had fun! And hope the remainder of your weekend runs as well.

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

Ooo, pointy mountains! I bet it IS very beautiful there. It'd be pretty cool if they did a Supernatural movie - and if they do, they should totally film it in the states. I've got this desire to see Dean and Sam in a desert actually - because, well, besides the badlands in Alberta, and the pretty dry Okanagan Valley, we don't have anything that even remotely looks like a desert. (even those two things don't look like a desert, but they are the closest we have).

But yeah, Vancouver is really gorgeous...so is the Sea to Sky hwy that goes between Vancouver and Whistler - hopefully all the international visitors coming for the Olympics in February will enjoy it!

[auriliawestlake.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it really is very pretty in and around El Paso - you can see some pics I took last September (not the one we just had, but the one back in '08) here. The Texas pics are all above the somewhat gray photo of St. Louis (notable by its ginormous arch-thingy).

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

Wow, it IS very gorgeous around you. A different kind of gorgeous than up here, of course, but gorgeous nonetheless.

[auriliawestlake.livejournal.com]

Definitely very, very pretty. I posted some more pics I had floating around here, if you're interested.