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at 7 am. It was misty and cool with a promise of rain later on. I was across the 13 km (9 mile) long Confederation Bridge before the rain started and heading on into a sunny and fresh New Brunswick day. T at sunny weather held all the 6,000 kilometre, fi ve-and-a-half day drive across Canada to the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia except for three hours of rain as I crossed Manitoba. Friends back in Tignish tell me it rained all summer there. Reaching the Okanagan Valley I discovered that in the 55
years since I was last there, it had changed considerably!! It was no longer a quiet area of peaceful, sleepy fruit farms. It was now a tourist mecca fi lled with hundreds of thousands of people from everywhere imaginable. Aſt er a lot of trial and error at fi nding someplace other than
very expensive motels to reside in, I bought a small, 19-ſt travel trailer for $400 from the friend of a (new) friend. Needless to say, with a price like that it has, as the owner explained, some tiny fl aws and imperfections. Unnoticeable really, except, of course, when it rains. He made a big deal about the problems but, as was only right and proper, I ignored him completely. It was love at fi rst sight. Leaving Kamloops with it securely attached to my pick-up
truck, I headed south towards Osoyoos. Many hours later, as I neared Oliver, a cute little town just north of Osoyoos, I decided that I’d had enough of driving for a while. I happily pulled into a Provincial Park, paid my $30 fee for two days at a camping site, and prepared to catch up on some sleep. T en the skies opened up. I thought it might be raining until I looked out of
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