About Me

Lee Creek, North Shuswap near Chase, B.C, Canada
We went full-time Rving in October of 2005! We retired from full time to part-time as of the end of 2015. Our present "small but comfortable" Wagon is a 2008 Camper trailer(TravelAir Rustler), pulled by a 2008 Dodge Dakota, 4X4.l. Our home is now a Gated Community Park, in Oliver, British-Columbia, Canada. I retired in 2005 and my Life Companion, Valerie, retired October 1, 2006 from nursing. We invite you to follow and share our new adventures and mishaps. Life is but an adventure full of dreams yet to be fulfilled!

Monday, March 31, 2014

March 26 to 29, 2014; Visit with brother Gaetan

MAR  26, Wednesday; Gaetan arrives!
14*C @ 8am; 22*C pm, extreme winds

Slept in again!  The sun is shining right now but there are heavy clouds moving in.  The strong winds are continuing, gusting to 35-40 MPH.  What a welcome for my brother!  Speaking of which, he arrived at 11 am.  He was going to explore L.A. but it was raining so he decided to come up where the sun was shining.  He didn’t realize how windy it was!!!  Val went for a haircut and pedicure and Gaetan and I went to his hotel to book him in and we had a bite to eat at a local restaurant.  It is great having him here and catching up to all the news back home in Quebec.  For dinner, Val had cooked a roast in the slow cooker so we had that with all the trimming then we went for a short walk.  It was cold outside and very windy so it was a short walk.  Gaetan left early as he was tired and we watched a movie then to bed ourselves!

 
MAR  27, Thursday; Touring the Coachella Valley
11*@ 7 am; 22*C in pm

It’s cold this morning, enough for me to turn on the furnace to take the chill out of the air!  Gaetan came over early so we had a coffee then drove to the Oasis just down the road and looked around.  Due to his operation, Gaetan gets tired fast so we didn’t do much walking; he was quite impressed with the place.  From there we drove to the RV store where I finally found refills for my log book then we drove west on Hwy 111 through all the city to Palm Spring.  Here we went up to the Indian Canyon and had to pay $7 each (they have a gate here now).  Again we didn’t do much walking.  We met Dave and Louise at Tilted Kilt Pub for a beer then came home to let Tucker out for a walk. 
We drove back to Palm Spring for the Outdoor Street Fair, lots of people around and eventually had dinner at our favorite pub, “Village Pub”.  We got back home by 10 pm and Gaetan went to his hotel right away to bed!  We weren’t far behind either.

 
MAR  28, Friday; To 29 Palms and the Joshua Tree National Park
11*C in am; 24* C in pm.  Finally NO WIND!

Gaetan came over at 9 am and I cooked breakfast for everyone: Fried onions and mushrooms, bacon and eggs with toast.  I think he liked it because he ate everything he was served.  Of course, Tucker had to share.  Afterwards we drove to the town of “29 Palms” and the “Joshua National Park”.  Gaetan really liked the drive and the scenery.  We did too even though we had been there before.  We entered the Park on the West side, visited almost every stops, went to the look-out @ 6000 feet which overlooks the Palm Spring valley and the Salton sea then drove to 29 Palms for lunch.  After, we drove to the South-East exit and took I-10 back to Dillon Road and home.  We had Dave and Louise over for HH then it was time for dinner; BBQ chicken, Greek salad and French bread.  Gaetan left at 8:30 pm and we watched the tube for a while before hitting the bed ourselves.

 
MAR  29, Saturday; Day off for Gaetan
14*C in am; 26*C in pm

Gaetan came over at 9 am and the two of us went out to do our own thing.  Val went shopping with Louise.  Gaetan and I went for breakfast then we went to the storage and checked out a bunch of keys as I couldn’t find the one that unlocks the lock but fortunately, we found it.  We went to his hotel and sat around the pool and watched all the bikinis and relaxed as much as we could.  At 4 pm, we came back to our place and had HH with Dave and Louise.  For dinner, I BBQ’ed steaks and lobster tails and Val made a vegetable dish and cooked mushroom and onions.  After we looked at pictures but Gaetan soon got bored with that.  He went home by 9 pm and we went to bed soon after. 

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