The last few weeks have been a whirlwind of packing, shutting down the house, finishing off the garden for me while Eric was winterizing the machinery and doing all that guy stuff that he does to make sure everything is in good shape when we return home in the spring. No matter how organized we are everything is just a huge amount of work and by the time we leave we are both exhausted. On Thursday we drained and blew out the water lines with a compressor and did a final check before heading over to daughter Erika’s for a final visit. We have a shower and she feeds us dinner before we go home to spend our last night at home in the rig. It’s a good thing the winter is relaxing! On Friday morning we do a final walk through and Eric shuts off the power for the winter. Bye bye little house….stay safe till the spring.
We were on the road Friday morning just after 8am and the drive to Prince George was relatively stress free with the temperatures ranging from 6C when we left home down to 0C along the way and up to 10C when we arrived in Prince George. There was fog off and on but not pea soup fog so that was good. We always stay at the Bon Voyage Motel just North of Prince George where we can hook up for $15 (power only) and have a nice meal in the restaurant. Today (Saturday Oct.26th) we only travelled as far as Cache Creek as we decided break our trip into three days on our way to Kelowna this year as we are not in a big hurry. The drive from Prince George to Kelowna is a bit of a marathon so we decided to break it into two days this year. We had a look at an RV park in Clinton but passed on it (no one around to check us in) and then looked at another park that the GPS said was there but wasn’t (dead end road) so Eric had to back up a driveway to turn us around. Always fun! He is much more relaxed about it now as we are in year six of our RV travels. It is foggy here in Cache Creek and we hear it will be foggy on our trip to Kelowna. We will stay Eric’s brother’s driveway (as usual) although he and wife Linda are in New Zealand so we will have the house to ourselves but we’ll miss seeing them. I have an appointment with the rheumatologist on Friday (Nov. 1st) and then hopefully we will be heading south on Sunday. My last blood test was still okay so all is well at this point.
Nothing fun to report but I guess that will come! I will do an update on the summer’s “fun” while we are in Kelowna when I have a little more time.
Right now we are parked in the Brookside RV park in Cache Creek for $20 (winter rate) with only power as the water has been shut down for the winter. The internet is good and there is 30 amp power so we can crank up the electric heat.
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