Sunday ; Boundary Creek Provincial Park to Keremeos
And so ends our two week camping trip exploration of the Kootenay region of the BC Interior. And so begins Year 8 of our full time RV life.
This morning we departed Boundary Creek Provincial Park and continued heading west on Hwy. 3. We stopped to have lunch in the parking lot of the BC Tourist Information Centre in Osoyoos. While there I went inside and obtained information on what needs to be done to get our business information cards racked in there.
WOW ... the Similkameen River is really high ! We stopped at Sanderson Farms in Keremeos to buy some fresh produce. And finally, we arrived home at Riverside RV Park Resort. The last two weeks were a great exploration adventure. Well, except for the continuing crappy weather.
Tuesday ; Well, today was the summer solstice. The longest daylight of the year. First day of summer. The sunny and warm weather has finally arrived ! Time for summer chores to begin in earnest.
Today I washed the truck and trailer. WHEW ! Joanne defrosted the fridge. The trailer's new fridge needs a lot less defrosting than the old fridge did. She began the difficult, tedious task of dewaxing / deoxidizing / rewaxing the trailer.
Riverside RV Park Resort had a summer solstice party tonight in the orchard on the waterfront. What lovely grounds we have. There is a large outdoor "fireplace" beside the river and we had a "potluck weenie roast". The party lasted until 11 PM. It was daylight until after 10 PM and just as the party was breaking up around 11 PM the Northern Lights / Aurora Borealis became visible.
Saturday ; A few days ago Joanne discovered a hole in the flower bed beside our storage shed. The hole obviously led to underneath the shed. We thought it might be a pack rat hole. I set the pack rat trap. This morning the trap contained ... a baby pack rat. Aw, shit ... must be a nest of them under our shed.
This morning we headed to Oliver to attend a memorial service for a friend of ours from the Escapees Okanagan Chapter 33. Diane died recently after a heart transplant. We extend our condolences to Murray. After the service we went to Oliver's Centennial Campground to visit with the half dozen or so Chapter 33 members who were camped there.
We returned home late in the afternoon. We were only home briefly before leaving again, this time in the opposite direction, to Hedley. We attended a dinner concert at The Hitching Post Restaurant in Hedley. This was definitely the last time we go to The Hitching Post. In the four years that we've lived here they have gone from excellent food and excellent service to atrocious service ( I mean really bad ) and food that is mostly quite mediocre. After waiting for fifty minutes for our order to be taken, we finally had to flag down a waitress and ask her to take our dinner order. The previously excellent Russian borscht has deteriorated into tasting ( and looking ) like dishwater. Joanne's pork chop was tasteless. And the vegetables might as well have been made out of rubber ! On a more positive note, the performance by the blues guitarist / singer from Nanaimo on Vancouver Island was good. Too bad it was slightly marred by the drunk and very obnoxious grey haired biker bimbo. Too bad her balding old biker bozo boyfriend couldn't shut her up !
DSK
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