Osoyoos

Day 84, Wednesday, 9/9: Plan to leave here this morning and will only have a few more days left in Canada. Kind of sad to see this adventure end but we are getting a bit homesick and thinking of going home to get things ready for winter…

Ended up being kind of a long day. We stopped in Kelowna for lunch and further south to get fuel. The road follows many lakes in this area and it is a pretty drive although more traffic and people than we have been used to! Nice sunny day in the low 80’s. We had planned to visit several wineries in the area as there are MANY but ended up only going to one and that was Silver Sage because we wanted to buy some of their wine specifically and haven’t been able to find it in any of the liquor stores. They have fantastic dessert wines and we ended up buying 2 ½ cases of various kinds!!!! Plan to have some wine tasting parties when we get home…. They assured us that we won’t have a problem crossing the border as the tax is so petty that it isn’t worth the border guards filling out the paperwork. We will see if this is true!!!

Had some trouble finding a place to stop. It was after 4:00 when we left the winery and the 3 provincial parks that we drove through were full or we couldn’t fit. Finally, the last one said they had overflow parking in the day use area. It is right on the lake and we can hear the waves crashing on the shore. It will be fine for tonight. Haven’t yet decided if we will cross the border here or go west and spend another night in Canada. We have some firewood left that we would like to use or we need to find someone to give it to. Will see how we feel in the morning. Have a bit of money left to spend too! Of course we could exchange it for US money but that isn’t any fun.