Well a little south anyway.
We’re just outside of Victoria at Goldstream Provincial Park and I hope
to get my first senior’s half price camping fee. The rates are reduced for BC residents 65 and
over starting the day after Labour Day til sometime in the spring. It was inevitable, since I did a major
cleaning and polishing of the motor home.
After weeks of drought, when it was time to hit the road, the road was
wet so now we’re dirty again! Not quite
sure how that happens so frequently.
We had a nice Thanksgiving weekend. On the Friday evening, we and four of my
siblings, their spouses and some offspring gathered to celebrate my sister
Susan’s 60th birthday. There were
about 17 attending. Her birthday isn’t until the 12th but she and
John left for Australia on the 7th for nearly a month. They were going to visit their daughter,
husband and the newest grandchild, a girl born a few weeks ago.
Our son and granddaughter came up from Victoria Sunday and
stayed overnight. We all went to Sheila’s
Mom’s for turkey and ham supper. About 17
or 18 people sat down to supper. Since someone
noticed it was our 45th anniversary, we received a card and they
sang happy anniversary to us. We went
for a walk along some trails near Qualicum on Sunday morning and found a
geocache.
After a lunch from the deli counter in a local grocery,
Richard and Georgia went off to meet up with his cousin Keith while Aileen and
I went to Campbell River to meet her sister Anne and husband John who drove
down from Port McNeill. John and I
walked along a forest trail geocaching for the afternoon and the ladies picked us
up at the other end about five hours later.
We had a good day logging 28 finds.
We struck out on the last two we tried though. We enjoyed a late supper at the Royal
Coachman Pub. I had a buffalo burger
with a gluten free bun which was excellent and I don’t think it cast extra
either. It was so nice we could get together with John and Anne again before
heading south.
Aileen and I went back up to Campbell River on Tuesday, the
next day, as previously arranged to meet Heather who we bought the motor home
from two years ago. We had a nice visit
with her then took our picnic lunch up the road where we could sit at the ocean
shore. Later, we went back to the two
geocaches John and I missed the day before but we still didn’t find them. I did find another as soon as I tried it
though.
Yesterday was a busy day tying up loose ends. I went
to the local phone store and got my phone and the air card put on minimum plans
for the time we’ll be out of the country.
I also went to the bank for a
money order to pay our taxes on the AZ property. Taxes on both lots and the park model trailer
came to $300.46 for the year. We also
will have a strata fee of $530 per lot due over the winter. I also
visited my Mom in the care home. She
was doing fairly well and gave me some nice smiles, kisses and hugs.
We were up early this morning to start preparing for our
departure. We went over to the rodeo
grounds to add some fresh water to the motor home then dumped the tanks at
Charlie’s. We have parked the pickup in
Charlie’s side yard with a trickle charger hooked up to try and prevent the
battery from discharging too much. We were
on the road just before 10:30 and were set up in the campsite by 2 pm.
This is a drilled artesian well near one of the caches I found a few days ago
This is an old photo I took on a stormy day near Salmon Arm a few years ago
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