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Grab the Bull by the Horns
(co-edited by the one in the blue scarf…aka my daughter) The versatile pink scarf is acquiring some new purposes on this trip. On safari to the “jungle” (which just looked too dry and sparse to allow my brain to categorize it as “jungle”) it was a bug screen. We were out there looking for tigers […]
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When Something is All Things to All People. Or at least 7 million per year.
One way Canada and India are different is that for millennials, a university degree from abroad means they stay abroad. Most Canadian kids go to undergraduate school in Canada. Even if they go away for school, they tend to come back. Our guide’s only child, a son, studied in France. Now he lives in Amsterdam […]
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Was Ghandi’s pocket watch a useful tool or a rare favourite posession?
Soft and thin. Airy. Yet warm. A shield when needed. Shade sometimes. It changes my mood. And it’s traveled the world. It can make a t shirt and pants feel more special. Occasionally it’s a pillow or a blanket. It’s one of my favourite things. What’s yours? It could be a sweater or a t […]
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Kettle Creek Provincial Park: A Requiem
This was our last stop with the RV and it had been my good intention to write about this fabulous campground and to recommend you stop there if you were driving Highway 33 through the Kettle Valley between Highway 3 and up through to Kelowna. But our holiday memories became memories in a final sense […]
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Note for the future: My daughter is never allowed near a microphone when the subject might be “me”…
I was just sharing with my 15 year old daughter that several of my friends had enjoyed the humour in “The Universe Has a Plan” blog post from earlier this month (thank you). “Really?” she says. “I should read it.” So she plops down at my computer to read my witty repartee. I watch her…she’s […]
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Nelson: “Big City” in a Scenic Small Town Atmosphere
The room is swaying. It’s a pleasant room, and I have to say, for a campground ladies’ shower area, it passes the test. But it won’t stop moving…but that’s not its fault. It’s the 17 year old motor home shocks that make us “float” around highway corners, rather than “grip” the asphalt. And that shower, […]
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RVing to Okanagan Wineries
So here’s my best solution to feeling stressed riding shotgun. She is oblivious to all potentialities and trusts her owner’s driving explicitly. Such is the peace of the zen existence of the family pet. I’m working on finding my groove. I’m getting there… Visiting some wineries helped. Road 13, as I mentioned, was our first […]
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Note to Gordon Lightfoot: “Carefree Highway” is not so care-free in a 33 foot Motor Home
Our decision to rent an rv for this trip was not made a long time ago. Eager Europeans (for the most part) long ago reserved their “normal” sized motor homes for their rocky mountain Canadiana. When we started looking, the only one my husband could find was a 17 year old, 33 foot, “land barge” […]
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The Universe Has a Plan
And I shouldn’t mess with it. As events of this morning unfolded, I realized my wickedness from the night before has caught up with me. 🙂 I can tell I’m about to go on holidays…I know this mental space. I micromanage things I shouldn’t, I race around trying to fix-at-the-last-minute all the things I should […]
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