Join us, Allan & Mary-Ann for our travel adventures in Bailey :)
Finally we see a bear at the side of the road. This isn’t him but the closest photo I could find of what he looked like. He, maybe She just couldn’t tell Wish I had the actual photo.
Arrow Mountain RV Park. Maybe more of a parking lot? 24 SPACIOUS sites, I think not!
Photo makes the spot look nicer than it is
We take a drive to a mini mall, park there and walk to town. Sights along the way
Lunch at Jimmy’s Delicious Mexican Pizza
That’s all for now
June 1 – We hate ups, guess we love torture cause here we go…
Bailey is looking small
Even smaller, do you spot them? Soon it will be hard to breathe at this altitude
Poop, poop, and more poop. We are on the lookout for animals
Spot the animal! It’s a deer who may have a baby with her
We started this walk with over 7k in steps so we will not make the top of the mountain today. Much deserved rewards. Do you spot Bailey and Bob? All spots revealed at the end of this post
We would have had to walk this much more to reach the top; nope we’re pooped!
We deserve this treat after our hike! This is the oldest pub in BC, founded 1895. Seems they have had some issues….Click here
What commands such a smile? Rickard’s Red on draught!
One too many??
We’ve had many interesting neighbours, this one included from Orangeville. He overheated at the park’s entrance so Markus invited him to spend the night.
Because of the wild fires, there are no individual fire pits, but there is a communal pit. Shared a fire with park owners Markus, his wife, the camp hosts and our Ontario fun guy,
June 02 – 2nd attempt to reach the top
This is where we made it to yesterday, off we go. We will make it to the top
What are those “ant” looking dots? Cows!
Poop, lots of poop reference today…. But poop, we are hearing thunder which is accompanied by lighting and we’re up here. Think it’s time to admit defeat and just be safe. Down we go
This is how much further it would have been to the top, Next time we are here we will make it there!
This is how far this tower is from Bailey
Spots
Here they are…
May 13th – Love the ducks but oh those poops!
Sad when this is a good deal
Who’s that Sweetie??
May 15th – Starts off dreary, ends up nice
May 16th – Day trip to Vernon, would not be complete without visiting Scattered Goods and having lunch at The Kal. Rickard’s Red on draft = Happy Allan
Ducks, ducks, ducks = poop, poop, poop! Bailey is quite a mess, Bob we do take to a car wash.
May 18th, reward by Wood Lake
May 20th – a quick trip to Alberta to attend a dear friend’s Father’s “Celebration of Life”. He passed peacefully, on the 13th.
Prices cheaper here, 173.9
Beautiful sunset
Back in Calgary to see the sites. Neither of us have ever been.
Delicious Mexican dinner, OK fries a little weird but the food was the best Mexican we’ve had in quite a while.
May 23rd – Back at the airport for our 9am flight, 55 minute flight. Happy to see our plane waiting for us. Note the plane on the left. We’re scheduled to leave at 9am board at 840. At 840 they announce flight is delayed to 10. We walk some more now have over 10k steps. Head back to find were delayed to 1045. More walking and settle by the fire.
Head back again, yahoo they are boarding us. Later but still we’re on the plane. Then the announcement “This is your captain, good news is I made it here bad news we have a technical problem.”
Fast forward we move to the plane on the left. Finally in the air at 1235. Bye bye Calgary
And hello poopy, Bailey
May 25 – Replace Bailey’s windshield day. Drop her off and head to Vernon to pass the day. Some cute signs. “Funny Noises”
We got “ducked” in Vernon. First time – sure makes you smile
Bailey’s new windshield
Friends, Elaine & Rob brought their RV for the weekend. Fun dice & card playing
May 29th – Indy 500 Day! May the best driver (that’s mine) WIN
Josef did not let me down!
We get a chuckle every time we walk by this truck. They are from Ontario
May 30th – Last full day in Wood Lake. Bailey gets a much need bath. We are hopeful the birds skip over us.
Last fire, weather permitting we’ve had one every night. We will miss this as many spots do not allow fires. Wild fires and all that.
Early morning visitors, please do not poop on Bailey
We are heading to Bridesville today but first a drotp off of Bailey at Enterprise to see about the aqua hot system. This is what heats our water including the shower. Showers are quicker nowadays. The water temperature doesn’t hold so it’s a game to keep turning the shower dial to keep it tolerable. I have no faith they will find anything, having not found it before. Let’s kill the day and head to Vernon, we visited a few of our favourite stores and were heading to The Kal when Allan got the call what Bailey was ready. Seems it is what it is, at least we know how to work the dial!!
We bail on The Kal and head to Costco, was in the plans just quicker than expected. The parking lot is nuts but we are determined. Park, head in only to find out their Internet is sporadically down. We thought we’d brave it till we saw the line ups, backed up to the back of the store. Not for us!
Pick up Bailey, hook Bob up, get fuel and we are on the road again…
Gotta love BC roads
We know we are on the right route, Construction!
This is one of many areas affected by the wild fire in 2021
Maps doesn’t usually let us down. Not this time 🙁 GPS is saying 1.1km to go as we sail by the campground. Whoops, it’s almost impossible to do a U-turn and we can’t back up with Bob hooked up.
Allan finds a turn around on a neighbouring property. It’s tight but we make it! We learn the sign that would have helped blew down in heavy winds 2 weeks ago. Rain and snow prevented the re-installation. We are here… Home till Friday
This park is new and has struggled, Covid, fire bans. If you are in the area, stop in, great owners and nice sites. So many plans for the future. Summit Mountain Resort This is site 10 & 11.
Today’s walking destination, it’s a 15minute walk from Wood Lake to this sign
They added this board since the last time we were here. This makes me LOL, note the legs
Made it! It’s that time, “REWARD”
This is us! Falls behind us
Back at Bailey it’s fire time
Bailey from a different angle. I do love it here especially as the park is very quiet, at least for now. There are tons of ducks who frolic in this creek but we are not to get a photo, yet!
Allan beat me in steps of the day (for a change), he finished over 18,000 to my 17,000. Big stepping day!!
This place has the latest check in we’ve encountered 3pm. They are adamant about it blaming staffing issues. Fortunately, Enterprise said it was OK to stay there, we used the time to go to Costco. Not happy that Costco stopped “old folks” hour but here we are.
The upwards view
I love it here, it is so peaceful. We have friends joining us here, it will be a blast!
Night 1 fire
Meet Bud, the keeper of the trail
Where Rivers and Friends Meet, Princeton’s slogan. This is where the rivers meet
Weyerhaeuser Saw Mill, we took a little break to watch these guys
Walked a little more to get our “rewards”
2 rivers become 1 from a different angle
Our last fire here
May 9th Heading to Kelowna Day
There were 2 RV’s in the park, the other one left and there was just us! Can you spot the 2Bs?
The drive
Our “resort” for a couple of days to get our annual service done. Fingers crossed we can get the replacement windshield organized in time.
Our neighbours!
Quiet bunch 🙂
Princeton the town that (click for the story) flooded in Nov 2021, so incredibly devastating, such remarkable comeback.
Welcome to Princeton
Some of the interesting stuff… Stairs! Tried to convince Allan to go up them, wasn’t very successful
Flying what ???
Fire fighters!
My ChooChoo Conductor !!
Heading to
the tunnel built in 1961
Destruction: Mother Nature giveth and taketh.. How much strength is required to wash away a portion of this bridge??
T’is beautiful. Truth be told, this is where we enjoyed our rewards 🙂
Tunnel goes through the mountain
Takes 3m49s to walk through the tunnel. Aren’t we dorky to time this!! Must admit I love this photo, makes me smile
Back home
Hwy 3 is a twisty, turny, highway. Many warn again taking this route yet here we are.
It is beautiful, but there are some “oh shit” moments that keep the heart healthy
Not snow, what is it?
BC has many of these. This one looks more torturous than most
Here we are! Only 22 sites, should have thought that through a little more. We’re #19, note you can come but you can never leave!
Steps from Simikameen River, The beach. Who the heck would swim in this water
Never, almost, a dull moment… We were going to visit Hedley tomorrow but were told there is a Covid outbreak. We will opt for plan b Good night…..
Goodbye to Nanaimo, Ladysmith, Rondalyn
Hello travel our old friend!
Waiting for the ferry to whisk us off the Island
Our whisker arrives.
Sad the kids won’t be close. 🙁
Many ships including a tug, tugging train cars
This is the “Silver Muse” as seen from the ferry
This is Jack Point, we hiked all around this on Feb 07th ..https://www.facebook.com/profile/560297692/search/?q=jack
Had a fun ferry trip. Had breakfast on board “Coastal Bennies” then found a corner to call our own to play cards
Back on land heading to Hope we hear what sounds like a gun shot or a rock hitting us. We see no evidence, something to check out when we stop.
Fuel stop. What do our eyes behold, F)&k
Oh well, what can you do except curse “F)&k dump trucks” See the mountain in the reflection
Our home for the next few days, Coquihalla Campground Site 59
May 4th – Explore Hope Day… We are closer to downtown than we knew which is fun.
A little cloudy and the Coquihalla River, steps from our site
First stop on our walking tour Canyon Glass to show them photos of our owie
Size wise it may be OK to just repair the chip, (chip has to be smaller than a loonie), but the spider cracks make it not doable. How now to arrange a windshield replacement?
Enough of this thinking stuff, off we go to explore Hope. It’s a cute little, sleepy town with lots of wood carvings, here’s a sampling
Not sure why they have a carving of Rambo…Fast forward to tomorrow when, on our walk we figure it out. Interesting 🙂
Our walk took us past Rolly’s Restaurant. BC’ers will remember how often they were in the news for their stance against vaccines, masks, etc. No, we didn’t enter.
We get in a much needed, FIRE!! The fire pit in our last Rondalyn visit was too tall to enjoy a fire
Finish the day with eating our 2nd to last made in Nanaimo, Nanaimo bar.. Delicious
We had fun spending our last Island weekend with Kyle & Megan. Dice, cards, delicious steak and Caesar salad, and fun, fun fun.
Sunday, May 1st we watched an Indy Race. An exciting race but POOP, Allan’s driver finished ahead of mine.
Monday, May 2nd our last trip to Nanaimo. Like so many others days, this one starts off with pouring rain. I’ll not miss the rain and gloomy days but will miss the many great places we visited and friends we made in the park.
We take ourselves to, of course, the waterfront. We love it there. We drive by the Petroglyph Park, stopping hadn’t work out – this time we stop.
Took all of about 8 minutes to see it, but we did.
Off to the habour front… From the highway we see a cruise ship. We haven’t heard anything about one arriving yet here it is. We walk towards the ship, no extra people – where is everyone??
Meet the “Silver Muse” Read about it here Now we know about where the people are.
A harbour front visit must include a visit to the W.E. Ricker. These are the photos of our first viewing of the Decommissioning of the Canadian Coast Guard offshore fisheries research vessel CCGS W.E Ricker, and today the last we will see.
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Will share the entire series of photos on a new post. Stay tuned….
Yet another water plane off to Vancouver, 20 minutes and you are there! We should have done that for a few day getaway. Next visit.
What’s a walk, without a reward? Non-existent… Spot Silver Muse in the background?
For at least a month, a nearby gas station, had a large felled tree, we since have learned it 260 years old being carved. We’ve never saw the carving in progress, stopped to day to see it. Simply WOW!!
Great day!