Canada

6-12-18 to 6-16-18

Canada O Canada,

Our friends who live in our Solera community in Arizona also have homes in Canada. They invited us to visit them and we couldn't think of a reason not take them up on it. Our 1st stop was Osoyoos  to drop off the trailer at Doc and Dawna's RV park; "Island View RV Park and Marina." It is an awesome place with great RV pads and is located right across the street from their private beach and marina. We will revisit their place later as we only stopped long enough to drop the trailer and headed north to Pentictin to see Reg and Nancy, our neighbors across the street in Arizona. Their home is located on a mountainside that overlooks the Okanogan Valley.  Views in every direction. Our greatest gift is their friendship and the hospitality they offered us. The valley is filled with fruit orchards and vineyards. We spent the days wine and cheese tasting, and sight seeing. We couldn't help but embrace the passion of the vineyard owners who shared their stories of their journey from planting saplings to 5 years later their long awaited 1st harvest. Don has enjoyed some time to sit alone with a glass of wine in one hand a pen in the other to write his thoughts in our journal about friendship and passion. Friendship brought us to this place but passion was the wind that filled our sails throughout our visit. We spent 3 nights with them before heading back to Osoyoos. Doc and Dawna have busy days as this was the start of their high season. None the less, Don and Doc managed a couple of golf dates, cocktails and sunsets on the beach in the evenings with all of us together, and great dinners. We did get our little boat out on the lake for some trolling and unsuccessful fishing. (Don did get a bite but as the story goes, he got away) Canada is a welcoming country filled with wonderful people who love what they do.  It didn't matter where we went, we found waitresses, cheese makers at the wineries,  store clerks, restaurant owners, wine makers, and most of all our friends to embrace us and share hopes and dreams. We know friendship to be the cornerstones in each of our lives. We have met so many wonderful folks along the way. So many who are doing the same thing we are. Together we have begun a journey into our next chapter  and friendships old and new have made our life better in every way. We could not imagine what time on the road, living in the trailer, and waiting to see what each day has in store for us but now we can't imagine it any other way.