Snow in Weed, and we got stuck there

Spent Easter Sunday night in Weed CA, in heavy snow. We parked the trailer right beside the Quality Inn, and spent the night safe and sound in a room there, though the driving had been very hairy for Lary once we hit snow.

Next morning we awoke to the trailer being plowed firmly into place right at the curb, so had to call a tow truck, and he winched us out and on to the road. Once we were on the road we could drive from there, and soon we left the snow behind us.

Spent the next night in Vancouver Washington, and the following day we crossed the border at Blaine, where we had an unusually friendly female Customs Officer, who welcomed us home to our own country once more, and we also had luck in making the 3:15 ferry on to the island from Tsawassen to Duke Point.

We took the trailer to Walmart, and made several trips home and back to Walmart unloading most of our stuff from the winter's trip.

The following morning we took the trailer down to Duncan for repairs, and left it there. Came back to Nanaimo, got the car insured, and left in the car for a 2 night stay with friends Russ and Sally down in East Sooke.

Then we caught the noon ferry Friday off the island at Swartz Bay, and we headed up Highway 1 to Princeton. Sal and Russ had shown us a super route that you take, aiming down Hwy 99 toward the US border, and at the last exit, 8th Ave, you exit, go back to 16th Avenue, and keep going east along that road, passing very near Tradex in Abbotsford. You meet the Hwy 1 freeway at Mt Lehman Road, so handy and without the heavy traffic through Langley industrial areas.

From Hope through Manning Park and on to Princeton we spent most of the day driving in falling snow, though it didn't seem to be sticking to the road. Still somewhat unnerving driving in that stuff, we don't have either chains or studded winter tires on the new car, and don't want to buy them either if we can avoid it.

Spent the night in Princeton, and next day on to Kelowna where we'll stay for a week.