Calgary Stampede The quintessential thing to do Canadas cowboy country. We had seen a rodeo in San Antonio so thought that the chuck wagon racing would be interesting. I didn’t know it could be that dangerous, during the stampede a total of six horses had to be euthanised, three of them on the night we …
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Okanagan Valley to Radium Hot Springs
On our way to Radium Hot Springs – via Okanagan Valley Road side stop, allowed to stay overnight. Restrooms and a food truck with hot Samosas, yummy. Corn drive through, and the best strawberries. I had forgotten strawberries could taste this good. Lunch at Harrison Hot Springs. Lavender and Herb farm. We stopped here …
Vancouver and Whistler, BC Canada
Canada day in Whistler While in Fort Langley I rang my second cousins in Vancouver, my Grandmothers sisters family, whom I have never met they were lovely and invited us over to their club for dinner. Our accommodation problems were sorted when Chris offered us a parking place in Whistler, he was going to his …
Fort Langley Canada BC
Canada Drove through the border check without any problems, the officer asked us a bunch of question like do you have firearms, ammunition, bear spray, potato spray, What! was that a trick question to see if we were listening. There was a truck right beside us so it was hard to hear, Derek said we …
RV parking in Vancouver BC
We arrived in Canada yesterday not realizing that it is Canada day on Monday 1st of July and therefore a long weekend. All the campsites and RV parks around Vancouver are full with people who are much better planners than I am. We are following a very vague plan of, let’s see Canada in the …
Washington State USA
Washington State We decided to just pass through Washington State to get to Canada for the summer. First stop, Casino Ilani, boondocked overnight in their car park, and had a very grown up (no french fries) 13th birthday dinner at the Casino for Laura. Our next stop was Mt St Helens Volcano, it was a …
Oregon USA
Beautiful Oregon coast. We stopped to let the kids and Lucydog out of the truck for an airing and run on the beach. Lucy loved it, she can still outrun the kids. Arrived in Portland and booked into a very neat and tidy RV Park, that was a cross between a car park …
North California
Napa Valley Wine region and a road side stop for dinner. You are only allowed to stay at rest stops for 8 hours so we moved on to the next one but it was a bit exposed to the highway so we decided to continue on and camp behind a school. I would rather be …
Sacramento and San Francisco
Our second stay at a Harvest Host, it is so nice to stay in the country on a farm. Sacramento, California The main reason for going to Sacramento was to catch up with Christine. We met at work many years ago and did a trip to the USA together. First time we have …
Yosemite National Park, California.
On the way to Yosemite we stayed at our first harvest host. A beautiful vineyard, almond grove and vege garden. We parked next to the shed looking onto the almond trees. At this site they had water as well as electric hook up, unbelievable seeing as it was all in exchange for some wine …