While we originally started the LG RVforfun page for RV tips when we first started RVing in 2012, we are turning it into an avenue to share our RV excursions.
First up - May 2022 - across Canada from British Columbia to Newfoundland and back.
Yesterday I painted the outside of a couple of doors at our son’s and daughter in law’s new house. Rather daunting, painting with black 😳 We saw a bear just down the road from the RV park and this morning there was a glorious mist over the island to the west.
We checked out a few distilleries and cideries today with Dayton and Megan and then had a delicious dinner and ended with a beauty sunset.
There is a lady in the RV park where we’re staying on the Sunshine Coast who is very creative. All these wooden features are her doing. And it’s a beautiful moon tonight 😃
Car show day in Sechelt today. Took us back to teenage with all the Ford Falcons, Corvairs, Acadians, Baracudas, 440s and 442s. Owners came from lower mainland, Powell River and local, including a couple from USA. It’s hard to get pictures with people everywhere and sun or shade.
We went for a walk in the woods today to Homesite Creek waterfalls just across the highway from the road to our RV park.
We didn’t fall off the face of the earth. We did suddenly change locations to be with Greg’s brother who is now home from hospital.
Today was a memory day spent with our son, daughter in law and grandkids on their boat. We caught fish, saw some cool jellyfish, a humpback whale, swam in the ocean, had ice cream and basked in a warm summer day.
Sadly, yesterday we had to cancel a bunch of meetups with friends and family while we had booked a week at Qualicum, and give up other plans we had for a return to Campbell River the end of the month. A family emergency meant we had to leave this morning for the Sunshine Coast, and we’ll be here at least a month. We found a reasonable RV park near Halfmoon Bay and got here around 4:30.
After two weeks mooch docking at my brother and sister in law’s we are at Qualicum for a week. Stopped at Mac’s Oyster for a quart of deliciousness and arrived at the campground to check in. I had reserved a hook up water front site two months ago, and knowing they had a couple of sites with trees, I had specifically mentioned we didn’t want to be in a site with a tree- it takes up too much space. The site we were given has a tree. With limbs about 10 ft off the ground. The 5th wheel is 13’2” high. The campground has full reservations. So, after much ado by the lady in the office who felt pretty bad, we ended up in dry camping with a lot more elbow room and an OK view and saved a few dollars for no hook ups. There is an ice cream shop a mile down the road. Dessert.
We had a most awesome hike today with one of my also retired work friends Sandra. Trout Creek Falls - a series of falls from Mary Lake to Menzies Bay.
It was a hot day and Greg determined ice cream on the pier was in order. Two ships came through on the slack tide from Ketchikan heading for Vancouver. And a little memory time at the plaques for my mom and dad at the Maritime Heritage Centre.
Arran and Janice took us to Myra Falls and Lupin Falls today. In all our years in the neighborhood, we never have been to either. It was a gorgeous day and the falls and short hikes were wonderful.
Campbell River, BC. Back in the old home town over July 1st weekend so we checked out the annual wood carvings and watched the parade. The old car we used for our wedding was in the parade, with Mr Proctor inside. He was our driver back then but passed the torch to someone else.
After Green Lake we’re spending a couple of nights with Steve and Sue and family on Nicola Lake. Steve had been one of my Post Office bosses back in the day.
We had a full day! Laundry and wash the truck. We each had a good paddle on the paddle board. Then we drove to two attractions that we’d never even heard of before in all our travels up and down 97 since the 1970s.
There are 3 videos in comments. Two are from Mt Begbie. One is the Chasm.
Our week at Hathaway Lake for the annual fly fishing trip was great family time, but with wind, rain, hail, low temperatures and poor fishing, it wasn’t our usual. Today Brittany and Chris went home and we traveled as far as Green Lake, where we’d stayed on the way north.
We arrived to sunny skies and a calm lake. We had lunch and clouds moved in, it rained and the wind picked up. By supper time, the sky cleared but the wind changed direction, so we set the BBQ and our chairs for happy hour on the lee side of the truck. After supper the wind stopped and we lit a fire. Then , you guessed it, the wind started again.
Still no fish on board - none of the regulars are getting anything either. Greg had one part way in today but it got away. Such a fisherman tale. I did laundry!
It’s slow going for fly fishing this year. The wind has been rather relentless and tomorrow we may have thunderstorms. Not a good time to be on the water with a fly rod.
It’s annual fly fishing week and this year we’re glamping with full hookup at Moosehaven Resort on Hathaway Lake, just east of 100 Mile House.
June 10, 2012
First day of full time RVing. Since then we have travelled all 10 provinces, 1 territory, 45 US states and to Puerto Penasco, Mexico. We guess we’ve put over 180,000 miles on our 5th wheel.
This was our first RV park location - Thunderbird RV park in Campbell River, BC.
A new to us location! Arrowhead Provincial campground on Green Lake, just south of 100 Mile House. It’s a reservation only campground, but we know that except for busy summer time, there are almost always some sites available 1 night or 1 or 2 nights, just because of the way the reservation system works. So here we are for 2 nights.
Adventure day. We set off this morning around 10:00 AM to check a few forestry sites on lakes. Garmin and google maps each showed a different route to the first location. We chose the shorter with Google maps but the road was mostly an awful logging road, so to check the other two lakes, we chose Garmins route. This turned out to be a logging road that no 2 wheel drive dually should have to experience. We made it. Lake # 2 never did show up, but number 3 was very nice and had a paved road from there on out. Check the videos in comments.
There are more blooms on “our” cactus today. And a fork tailed flycatcher.
A little 2+ klm walk this morning while the sun was still out, because after lunch it blew and rained. BC has prickly pear cactus, albeit rather small compared to Arizona, and they are coming into bloom!
It was breezy today on the lake, and unsuitable to be on the water so we went for a drive to Red Lake. At one time the Hudson Bay trail had gone from Kamloops past Red Lake towards Horse Lake and then 100 Mile. It took us 3 1/2 hrs with a few stops round trip. Apparently there are roads one can still take and arrive at 100 Mile.
A new day, a new location. We’ve never stopped at Steelhead Provincial campground in Savona, just west of Kamloops, but we really like it. It’s all first come, no reservations, my favorite! And it’s only $11.50/night senior rate. It’s at the west end of Kamloops Lake, just before the lake spills into Thompson River. I was hoping to get my new paddle board out of the box and onto the lake, but it was far too blustery for that.
John and Corinne in Armstrong took us for an awesome butt crunching hike today - about 6 klm and 49 floors according to my phone!! We stopped at a brewery/cidery on the way home where we then had burgers for dinner.
We’re in Armstrong moochdocking in the driveway of some folks we met while boondocking in Buenos Aires Wildlife refuge in Arizona. Nice driving day.
We drove in to Penticton today for a couple of repairs on the truck and to get groceries and propane. It was very foggy until we were almost to Anarchist hill.
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