Back in Kelowna for warranty work on the trailer

We are back in Kelowna for some small warranty work on the trailer, we had a kitchen drawer fall out while we were on the road, and we couldn't get it back in right, so are having that taken care of, as well as other small stuff. Nothing big at all.
Thank heavens it didn't rip up the kitchen lino when it came crashing out. It was a big drawer.

The learning curve is pretty steep with this rig, we find that the bed closes up right to the drawers in the bedroom, so we can't get into the bedroom, and can't access the clothes cupboard if the slide is closed. Need to plan ahead for clothing changes, takes a bit of thinking.

And in the kitchen/living room/dining room same thing, the dining/living room slide comes right in to the kitchen sink extension, so we can't get at the kitchen or anything anywhere in the main room with the slides shut.

So for roadside lunches we're not sure what we have to do, but all the slides need to be out for us to go anywhere except barely into the hallway in the main room, and we can get into the bathroom too. That's all.

It has just dawned on us both that we won't be able to load/unload the trailer outside our house, where we parked on Applecross before, as two slides are now on the road side, which is way too dangerous on busy Applecross Road.

So we both need to be retrained for that part of our RVing experience.

We will use Walmart perhaps, and open the slides and clear out the cupboards that way. When it's just a short campout it's not such a big deal, but when we leave or return from down south it's more extensive as we have lots of clothes and way more stuff to take in/bring out.

After we visited our friends Grant and Katie Long in Oliver we went to Keremeos and visited Bernice and Gordon Elderkin at Sunkatchers RV co-op. There was no space there to camp, and we found Eagle campsite on the highway, not too far from them, it is a nice little campsite, about 25 sites, all pull throughs, hooray, right near a walking path which was a railway in days gone past. The campsite owner is Croatian, and very friendly and helpful too.

We walked about 1/2 hour and visited the Red Bridge, a covered bridge that had been a railway bridge, and is now restored, and used for vehicle traffic alongside the Similkameen River. It is quite quaint, it has red steel siding, the railway used to service a couple of gold mines in the Hedley area, and was called Victoria/Vancouver and something else I can't recall.

Bernice and Gord had us for a very happy happy hour, then the next day we 4 went out to a local restaurant that was kind of German, and such wonderful food. The men ate schnitzels and Bernice and I ate chicken baked with nut coating, and a fruit berry sauce. Yum yum.

We 4 went into Oliver on Saturday and went to the Seniors Centre there, we attended a dance from 10 AM til noon, what a beautiful facility it is, with a big sign saying Goodbye Snowbirds, apparently Oliver has tons of snowbirds from all across the prairies. We admired the pretty paintings on their walls, the centre is clearly a busy place, and we danced to a live band of 8 people, all volunteers. They dance every Saturday through the season, and a few seniors even come up from the US to attend. It was a magic occasion, one that really surprised us.

Of course we just "did the ballroom shuffle" but there were tons of different dances happening, we were envious of all their talent. Round dances, foxtrots, polkas, waltzes, it was wonderful. And folks were so friendly, too.

We ate lunch at a restaurant in Oliver, then went back to Keremeos, went in to their Legion there, and stayed for their meat draw. As visitors Lary got to draw the first winner, and he drew Di's ticket, so we got a fat roasting chicken which we had to put in our freezer, as we were on the move once more.

Sunday we left and returned to Kelowna and Holiday Park, had Gord and Trish over for Happy hour, then went out for dinner at a nearby Greek restaurant, lamb shoulder, yum yum, another wonderful place.

Today is Monday and the trailer is having small repairs done under warranty in Kelowna at Voyager, we drove the truck up to Vernon which is way cooler than Kelowna, and found the Talkin Donkey coffee shop/ lunch place. They offer free internet, so we are checking our email, and eating lunch at the same time.

Nice to find, as the Visitor Centre had directed us to Starbucks which charges $9 per hour to use their WiFi.

We think we'll head for the coast after this, and perhaps return to Nanaimo and go into a campsite there, where we can show our friends the new rig, and maybe unload the trailer, and get back into our house once more, by the end of April/beg. of May.

The lady who owns the property where we store our trailer at a rural place in Lantzville had a heart attack in January just before we left, so we hope that she's recouperated and we'll be able to store the rig there, still.

That's about it for now, we need to say bye for now, and this maybe our last posting for this year's journey down south.

Take care all, and thanks for reading our blog.