We stopped by the Laundromat at the Douglas Fir Resort,
which was actually quite nice and did about 3 loads of laundry-amazing how it
piles up. And, we actually wear the same
clothes over and over. Someone told us
the other day that, if you weren’t comfortable wearing the same clothes for 3
days in a row, you probably shouldn’t be a camper.
AND, we finally got the tire fixed. There was a leak in the stem. They didn’t have lug nuts though, so it still
looks kinda funny-but then, so do we J. Neither of us has had our hair cut since we
left home; I hardly wear make up; our clothes are pretty much camping clothes
and Boo could sure use a good grooming!
We had a great brunch at Tooloulous,
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Pictures of food-geez! But I had to show this.
It's a breakfast poutine-never had anything
this good or this fattening (for breakfast that is!) |
...while Maxine was
getting her shoe fixed, and then we went to the library where we could access
the Internet and get our email.
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| Thank goodness it was air conditioned |
The
Whyte Museum had a wonderful indigenous art exhibit which was just a
delight. Here are some of my
favorites:
After a grocery shop and a liquor store run, we finally got
back to our camp site only to find that someone had taken our rugs and set up
tents in our site!
No one was there so
we went back to talk with the warden (the equivalent of our rangers).
He was a baby in a warden outfit – looked
like this could be his first day on the job.
Apparently, someone (certainly not this young fellow!) had double-booked
our site.
We couldn’t believe it!
They did have our rugs, thank god, but we had
to run around to find another adequate site (not easy, since most are very
narrow and some not long or even enough).
Long story short, we found a good site, asked for compensation and got a
night free for our inconvenience.
Then,
just as we were settling in, Boo threw up.
He vomited about 5 or 6 times that night and about 3 more times the next
day.
We were about to go to a vet the 3
rd
day, when all of a sudden, he returned to his old self.
We have been spoiling him with tastes of our
food, and I think we may just have gone overboard.
Either that or it was giardia .....or maybe some of the poutine I gave him.
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| Poor sickly Boo! |
The road through the Columbia River Valley was just beautiful (how many times have I said that on this trip?!)
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| Smoke is coming down south from the fires in Banff. |
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| Columbia River wetlands |
We thought Fairmont Hot Springs sounded pretty darned
good. It was a little expensive to stay and was like but Jim
needed WIFI and the springs would be a nice way to relax after a big last
week. We thought it was associated with
the Fairmont Hotels—not so, BY FAR! It
was a beautiful drive down through the Kootenays into the Columbia River
Wetlands. The Columbia’s headwaters flow
northward here, before reversing course and flowing south into the states and
out to the Pacific. There are birds
everywhere and the topography suddenly takes a gentler look.
Well, the Fairmont was a big disappointment.
It was a little like being in an RV parking
lot, we couldn’t get WIFI at our site and the sewer line backed up while we
were here—we are still trying to get compensated for the anguish of this
visit.
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| The resort |
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| The RV park. Anathema to us! |
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This cracked me up. It's an electric water
fountain-in someone's RV site!!!!! |
The upside happened the 2
nd
day, when we took to the waters and got our distressed bodies and minds
readjusted and then found a very nice patio at the hotel where we could hang
out with Boo, drink wine and beer and eat nachos and get our much needed
internet connection!
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