hey. May be you can tell us where about you live in Vancouver. then we can give you instruction of how to get there with public transit (e.g. bus, skytrain, seabus...etc)
I was going to point him to the translink web site jar... http://tripplanning.translink.bc.ca/
I have been taking bus myself as well these days. When the weather is good, it's easy to try taking a bus for a short tour here.
my mom did the exploring herself and took bus to places like UBC (just go and come back with the same bus) and Horseshoe Bay yeas ago when we were new here. She didn't even speak much English.