Kamloops BC
It is a rainy Wednesday afternoon in Kamloops so Gail is making Tea and I am updating the Blog.
We had a great 10 days in Vancouver and it was sad to leave. Alan and Kazuko are always such good hosts and Mom enjoys having here two sons around. When we arrived Kazuko had arranged dinner for the first couple of days. You will see pics of us leaving Vancouver Island and lunch on the ferry that Mom bought. Burnaby RV is a great place and consistently rated #1 in Canada. I went about connecting all the RV lifelines like sewer, water and Satellite TV. All worked just fine. Tuesday evening we drove over to Lesley Anne's office and had the Royal Tour.
You will see pics of her office and dinner at our place. The week passed quickly and Saturday morning LA had us to her appt for a Gourmet Breakfast. Blueberry pancakes and Maple syrup !!!! We then left for a walk around False Creek where LA's company had built an Island for Habitat Compensation. We did some shopping and back to our place for dinner. We had Alan & Crew over as well. LA spent the night in our RV and I cooked Scrambled Eggs in our new " Magic Bullet ". Lunch on Main street and then some shopping before saying a farewell goodbye to LA.
Sunday evening back to Al's for great steak dinner on his new deck. For our send off Monday Mom took us all out for dinner at Boston Pizza. You will see her paying with her credit card. It was good by to Burnaby Tuesday Morning.
As we left Vancouver I felt a little home sick. Leaving Mom is always a difficult decision but will be flying back to Comox the end of June for her birthday. It was a sunny Tuesday as we made our way to Hope and over the Coquihalla Highway. Just after the Toll Booth we stopped at the summit for lunch. Disaster Struck!!! The bike rack on the rear of our RV was too heavy and despite being welded to he frame bent it. The caused a bold to pop through the fiberglass on the rear bumper. Now this was a huge problem as I had to move the bikes off the back stand and into the RV. My nice orderly RV was now filed with dirty bikes. I new there would be challenges as left for a year but not our first week out. Not sure what I am going to do. We will see if a welder can strengthen up the bracing.
We are staying about 10 km east of Kamloops at Kamloops RV park. http://kamloopsrvpark.kamloops.com/ It is OK but a little run down but OK. We are next to a mountain so satellite TV is unavailable and cable TV is only available on the other side of the park????? Gail and I might have to talk to each other!! We are meeting long time friends Phil & Jill McVie for dinner at their house Friday Evening. Saturday- Brent Mitchell is arriving from Calgary and we are going to meet his Mom for dinner. Then Sunday we are off to the Desert Gem in Oliver.
http://www.desertgemrv.com/ This is a first class RV resort that we have stayed in many times before.
We are both exercising daily. I bike ride for two hours on non driving days and Gail does Yoga in the RV. The Pictures of our discussed above can be found at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rtbrown/collections/72157604941300131/
It is a rainy Wednesday afternoon in Kamloops so Gail is making Tea and I am updating the Blog.
We had a great 10 days in Vancouver and it was sad to leave. Alan and Kazuko are always such good hosts and Mom enjoys having here two sons around. When we arrived Kazuko had arranged dinner for the first couple of days. You will see pics of us leaving Vancouver Island and lunch on the ferry that Mom bought. Burnaby RV is a great place and consistently rated #1 in Canada. I went about connecting all the RV lifelines like sewer, water and Satellite TV. All worked just fine. Tuesday evening we drove over to Lesley Anne's office and had the Royal Tour.
You will see pics of her office and dinner at our place. The week passed quickly and Saturday morning LA had us to her appt for a Gourmet Breakfast. Blueberry pancakes and Maple syrup !!!! We then left for a walk around False Creek where LA's company had built an Island for Habitat Compensation. We did some shopping and back to our place for dinner. We had Alan & Crew over as well. LA spent the night in our RV and I cooked Scrambled Eggs in our new " Magic Bullet ". Lunch on Main street and then some shopping before saying a farewell goodbye to LA.
Sunday evening back to Al's for great steak dinner on his new deck. For our send off Monday Mom took us all out for dinner at Boston Pizza. You will see her paying with her credit card. It was good by to Burnaby Tuesday Morning.
As we left Vancouver I felt a little home sick. Leaving Mom is always a difficult decision but will be flying back to Comox the end of June for her birthday. It was a sunny Tuesday as we made our way to Hope and over the Coquihalla Highway. Just after the Toll Booth we stopped at the summit for lunch. Disaster Struck!!! The bike rack on the rear of our RV was too heavy and despite being welded to he frame bent it. The caused a bold to pop through the fiberglass on the rear bumper. Now this was a huge problem as I had to move the bikes off the back stand and into the RV. My nice orderly RV was now filed with dirty bikes. I new there would be challenges as left for a year but not our first week out. Not sure what I am going to do. We will see if a welder can strengthen up the bracing.
We are staying about 10 km east of Kamloops at Kamloops RV park. http://kamloopsrvpark.kamloops.com/ It is OK but a little run down but OK. We are next to a mountain so satellite TV is unavailable and cable TV is only available on the other side of the park????? Gail and I might have to talk to each other!! We are meeting long time friends Phil & Jill McVie for dinner at their house Friday Evening. Saturday- Brent Mitchell is arriving from Calgary and we are going to meet his Mom for dinner. Then Sunday we are off to the Desert Gem in Oliver.
http://www.desertgemrv.com/ This is a first class RV resort that we have stayed in many times before.
We are both exercising daily. I bike ride for two hours on non driving days and Gail does Yoga in the RV. The Pictures of our discussed above can be found at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rtbrown/collections/72157604941300131/
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