If you don't know me very well, you might assume I'm an indoorsy person, and while you might have a point I do go outside sometimes!
Once in a while, when I remember it exists, I like to go visit the old Toronto Coach Terminal. It's long-closed now, but it served as an intercity bus terminal from the 1930s to 2021, though most routes moved to Union Station in the 90s.
I only took a bus from here once, in 2019, and I don't recall the reason or destination. It was somewhere west, though.
It seems like it's mostly been demolished now, except for the easternmost building.
(I meant to add a picture of the building before it was demolished, but I can't find any I took in my old files...)
On the east side of Bay St there is a half-underground bit of sidewalk with the door to a tunnel to the coach terminal. I remember sitting on these stairs some years ago, maybe on a night when I didn't want to go back home.
The door is boarded up, of course. I wonder about the condition of the tunnel nowadays.
The construction site at 130 Elizabeth St (previously the west coach terminal building) has side paneling with photos of the terminal when it was in use. I found a notice with an amusing comment:
"Danger Due To No Access" is typical, but still not correct.
When I want to go somewhere but don't have a destination in mind, I pick a random bus/train station on a map, go there, and try to find something interesting.
One of these places is Port Credit, a small town on Lake Ontario at the south of Mississauga. The name is a reference to it being first used by European settlers as a trading post on credit, as in "repaid later".
When I'm in Port Credit, I tend to stop by Archtop Coffee Bar. I drink neither coffee nor alcohol, but their carrot cake is a very good snack.
As I'm reviewing this text prior to posting it, I noticed I meant to add some pictures of town here, but never took any. The only picture I took is of a half-empty marina, and it seems no more interesting to me now than it presumably was when I took it.
I'll leave you with a (possibly more interesting) picture of half of the Ridgetown Freighter. I meant to go further towards it to take a better picture, but I got tired of walking through swarms of flies halfway there.
Here's the other half from further away.
