Southward bound
Reports of impending rain made us pack up the next day and
start heading south to see if we could find some sun to chase, and we chose to
go through the Okanagan through wine country. It was slightly raining all throughout the drive, and we
stopped in Oliver to get some obligatory wine and lunch. This was where I had done my
half-ironman a few years ago, so it was fun to go back and see it.
Unfortunately we decided to keep on trucking given the weather, and determined
to make the U.S. border so we could get back stateside (and start using our
phones again!). This time the
border patrol did ask us to pull over for inspection as we admitted to having
some leftover fruit (actually bought in the U.S.). The inspector was more interested in talking to Tiago about
the Airstream and renovation than anything, and luckily the fruit got through
unscathed. As we had been driving
all day, we found a place to camp for the night in Washington.
The humidity was the first thing to hit us, and since we had
electrical hookups decided to make full use of the new air conditioner we had
installed earlier this year and ran it full blast to cool us all off. It felt like being in a hotel! After we paid the ranger came by to
warn us of a momma bear and her cubs that were living near our campsite, but we
did not meet them in our brief stay there. We also discovered that a little mouse had decided to escape
Canada and illegally cross the border with us in the airstream, unbeknownst to
us! I was sitting in the airstream with both dogs around and saw a mouse cross
the floor! Some guard dogs we
have! Tiago didn’t believe me at
first, but then later he saw it too, so the next day we stopped at Lowe’s to
get a mousetrap. We got the glue
kind, and the very next night I awoke from sleep to a screeching mouse sound
and immediately knew it had been caught.
The funny thing is neither dog nor husband woke up, so I had to dispose
of it on my own. I must say I
slept a little better knowing we got him!
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