Expedition Canada

A few days late Sandbar Lake PP (Monday Sept 8th) was a lovely park and still lake, another one nighter after the previous stay at a campground which we booked in error.  The previous day's two sites were close together and had the same names, we looked at the website for one but called the other one, big mistake, it wasn't great.   We were glad to get to Sandbar Lake.  Not so glad to be woken by Jack singing at 0400 having decorated the trailer floor with output from both ends, including blood.  He was clearly not well.  The nearest 24hour emergency vets were 120km (in our direction of travel) so we woke one of them soon after 4.30am and he agreed to see us.  We ignored the one who used a 24x7 call centre, that was no help.  We left the trailer and got to the vet for about 0600, driving through thick fog the whole journey.  The vet was already there.     Jack not impressed or happy Not sure which charm school he went to (thoug...

Goodbye Mountains Next stop Calgary Today we leave the mountains and head for the prairies after two weeks of exploring beautiful British Columbia we now get to drive over to Alberta.    It has been an amazing first two weeks to our four months of travel, not all as planned!  The roof glass, which shattered ten minutes into the trip is due to be replaced in Calgary on Monday, to much relief.  The almost daily ritual of replacing duct tape will not be missed!  After our three days in Revelstoke we had a 482 km drive west and south to Kikomun Creek Provincial Park in East Kootenay. As we drove south the mountains slowly gave way to more undulating hills and mixed forest and grassland, following both the Columbia and Kootenay Rivers.  It also got warmer.  After waking to frosts and 3c in Manning Park, Kikomun topped out at 33c.  The AC was both welcome and necessary.  RV's are not as thermally efficient as one's home.  The heat also ensured...