MOVING ON

Oct 11/09

The past week was different than the first 3 as we were preparing to move on to a new location by the end of the week. We took a quick trip to the Lower Mainland to visit with Stuart’s family and it was an interesting trip. After being in a small, slow town for weeks, we were transported into the fast pace of a big city with voluminous traffic, toll bridges (Golden Ears) and a bus and sky train ride to a Greek restaurant on Davie St. in downtown Vancouver. Ain’t nothin’ like that in Barriere!!

We weren’t able to get a last fishing day in as the weather was cool and windy. We packed up the boat, the fishing clothes and all the fishing gear and on Thursday, and took it to the storage locker in Kamloops. It was sad to put it all away, but also exciting to know that we were going to have new experiences in the next while.

We left Barriere fairly early on Friday morning and had to stop in Kamloops for a doctor’s appointment. We were on the road again by noon and drove to Vernon where we checked in to the Swan Lake Recreation Resort. What a culture change!! It is a full RV resort with wide, paved sites with small storage sheds (for the owners) and a grass area with trees at most sites.

There are ‘real people’ here who are regular RV’ers and they are very friendly. And no trains at any time!!

But it sure has gotten cold. The arctic front has settled in and it was minus 4 last night. We disconnected our water intake for the night and use the water pump to access the on board heated water tank. Some people have insulated the hose lines and water pipes and wrapped them with heat tape, but we also saw some of them replacing hoses and connections this morning. Glad that it is sunny so we can still sit outside and read in the afternoons.

Our plans to head south of the border are going to be delayed for a few weeks as I need to have some treatments done after my surgery. They will be done in Kelowna so we will be around this area for a while yet.

We are going to have a traditional Thanksgiving meal tomorrow with turkey thighs, cranberry sauce, yams, stove top stuffing and pumpkin pie for dessert. It is all smaller scale than a full roast turkey dinner but the flavours will be excellent. We have so much to be thankful for.