Blogs from Williams Lake, British Columbia, Canada, North America

Woke up really early today to a glorious morning. Sky is clear and the weather is warm. Put on a pot of coffee and got on the computer to put in yesterday's blog, only to find the computer was totally screwed up. I think we picked up a virus of some sort. After spending over an hour on the thing, Ray got it to run normal again. Don't know how and don't care. We departed Kaleden at 8:00 sharp and headed north on Rt 97 toward Peachland (guess what they grow there?) This section of highway winds it's way along the west shoreline of Lake Okanagan. I was very hilly with breathtaking views of the lake at every turn. At Peachland, we headed west on Rte 97C, the Coquihalla Connector. This road climbed thousands of feet ... read more

The trip today took us through all kinds of weather. We left camp and the temp was 65 and it continued to rise to around 70. Then we stopped for lunch and the heavens opened up bringing rain for the next 45 minutes. We had not seen rain in two days and we were beginning to think we were home free for sunshine. Once the rain stopped them temp had dropped down to 56. However, by the time we reached our campsite in Williams Lake the temp was back up to 70 and sunny. When we get up in the morning we really have no clue how to dress so it's awesome all we have to do is open our trailer doors and take off or add more layers. After a visit to Walmart and Subway ... read more

It’s hard to get my brain around our Christmas activities since it is now June! Our first Canadian Christmas since 2007 was very exciting. We got to see all our children and grandchildren for a few days around Christmas itself and also to visit Dianne’s family in Alberta. We had driven to Mission to visit our daughter and her family then flew to Calgary to visit the Alberta relatives. We arrived back at close to midnight to discover they had freezing rain that evening. Hmmmm. The trunk was frozen shut as were the back and side doors. Luckily, I was able to get driver’s door open and we could climb in after pushing the suitcases into the back seat through the window. Good thing we travel light. Our suitcases for China wouldn’t have made it. Dianne’s ... read more

Editor's note I have taken the liberty of copying the recipient list from WilsonsInChina to this new blog. If you don't want to receive notice of new entries, go back to the email and click "unsubscribe". If you have seen this before, sorry about that. Chalk it up to growing pains (mine, not yours) The next adventure begins Dianne “retired” in June 2006 but decided to keep her hand in by doing a few projects for her old school system. Then the opportunity to go to China was too much for her to resist. Went for two years, stayed for three and would probably have stayed for one more but the Chinese government has age related policies for “foreign experts”. There can be exceptions but we decided it would be better to be closer to our ... read more