That wasn’t the best night for sleeping. We were awake several times in the
night. Aileen finally got up about 5:30
to wash her hair then fed Mitzy. I took
Mitzy out then did the power cord, garbage and readied the car while Aileen put
the slides in and the jacks up. We
pulled out about 6:02 am and headed down to the ferry lineup. We were about number five so no problem
getting in without a reservation. It
cost us $247.50 this time, I believe.
The crossing got quite rough with the ship wallowing side to side and
slamming down into troughs causing spray to come over the bow and drench the
windows. I was starting to feel quite
queasy for a while.
The
customs guy was very polite and easy to get along with which was good. We got out of town as fast as we could and
started up the Malahat which the electronic signs proclaimed to be bare and
wet. Not! We ran into snow before even starting up the
first hill and before long it was sticking to the road. The guy in front of us had a two wheel drive
pickup towing a car on a dolly and he did quite a bit of fish tailing. The Terra motor home felt very secure, which
was good. I’m not sure about some of the
rest of the crew though! We stopped at a
rest area south of Nanaimo for lunch and the rain mostly stopped for it. We even had some sunshine in the Nanoose to
Parksville area. Thankfully it was not
precipitating while we did our set up at Charlie and Sheila’s. It was
This pilot boat was getting lots of water over the bow just like we were
Oh, Oh!
And then it got worse! At least most of the other traffic was driving carefully
Oh my! That snow sure looks cold -- probably because it was! February certainly isn't a good month to head that north. Actually, it's not a good month to head most places.
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