Nanaimo

Well here we are in Nanaimo. We left Brandon on the 15 June after I finished my last shift at 2200hrs. We only drove for an hour or so & pulled into a little rest stop just by the Mb/Sask border. We got up around 0600hrs and drove to Calgary where we parked in the back lane of a friends place for the night. We had an awesome roast chicken dinner with them & a few laughs as well. We left a little late the next morning, but called a friend in Canmore & had breakfast with him at Craigs Waystation. Very good staff & food served there as we had been there several times last year. We decided that we would stay the night at the Wapiti CG there & go for a steak supper & all the trimmings at our friends place. What a lovely evening we had. All this time my hubby had driven the rig, but he was having a hard time driving & looking at the scenery so on Sat morning I got behind the wheel & drove to Kamloops. I had only pulled the trailer on the flat prairies so it was a different experience going up & down the mtn roads. The Knutsford CG was very nice. I drove again to Savona where we had a wonderful breakfast at the roadside diner there. It was also Fathers Day and as I was driving through Hope ( we took the old #1 highway) my hubby's kids called him to wish him a Happy FD. We stopped in Cloverdale just before the ferry for diesel. Our reasoning was the price would be higher on Vancouver Island. Joe drove to the ferry at Tsawwasen and we took the Duke Pt ferry to Nanaimo. The cost at 54ft was almost $250. We won't be going back to the mainland with the trailer if we can help it as they charge $5 a foot over 20ft. We found Jingle Pot CG without any trouble. So now we have the wonderful pleasure of trying to license the units in B.C. What a gong show! Mb is not the fastest at sending pertinent documents by fax so that we can prove we had a license in Mb for more than 2yrs. Geesh. We have moved once since being in Jingle Pot, as we wanted a bigger site to accomodate the length of our truck (25ft) and trailer (37ft). With our slides & awning out we spread out 20ft. Our next door neighbour had company over the other nite & they backed into the rear passenger hip of the truck. Put a nice dent in our unit & nothing damaged on the Toyota fj cruiser, go figure! So now we have made the claim & just waiting for the appropriate insurance company to call us...geesh! The weather here has been nice, not too cool & not too hot. Alot of clouds and we have had 3 days of rain now. At least we don't have the humidity like back in MB. So it looks like we are going to be here for the winter which is okay by us. The owner of the CG is awesome & the people who stay here on a permanent basis are really nice. Gotta check on my soup so will sign off for now, Cheerio, Jeannine