Week ending Apr 2, 2015 Richland Wa to Oliver BC

Friday after a visit with John's parents we headed to the Reach Museum in Richland, which has a section on the Hanford Nuclear Reactor.  The Hanford Reactor produced the plutonium that was used in the nuclear bomb that the USA detonated over Nagasaki, Japan to end World War II in the Pacific.  The museum had excellent descriptions of the technology used, the project to build the reactors, and the community that was built to man the project.    See the Wikepedia description of Hanford for more details.  There are a couple of other sections in the museum regarding the Columbia River in this area, but there were several classes of school children in them, so we chose to skip those sections.

Columbia River from Reach Museum

Saturday we packed up, with our destination being Oliver B.C.  We had a wonderful drive along Coulee Scenic Drive. We drove along Scooteney Reservoir, Moses and Lenore Lakes. When we first left Richland the wind was vicious,  finally died down once we got to the protection of the canyon walls along Grand Coulee. 

Lake in Grand Coulee

We did a final stop for cheap diesel at Omak and had a quick lunch in the truck.  Our stop at the border crossing was quick and uneventful. The border agents here are very accommodating for us snowbird types.  We suspect they see at lot of them returning home at this time of year.  We arrived at Desert Lake RV Resort around 2:00 P.M.  This is a small park, not the most spacious we've been in, situated on Tuc-El-Nuit Lake, reasonably close to downtown Oliver. We got everything set up in time to watch the first game of the men's world curling championship.

Sunday was more curling, Nascar racing and a walk in the park, to the beach.

Tuc El Nuit Lake

Monday we made a trip to Penticton to do some shopping, John wanted to have a chat with the pharmacist about whether some high temps in the trailer would affect pills, and we had to go to Tim's to participate in the roll up the rim. No luck, but then we didn't really expect to have any. Mid afternoon we got back to the trailer, in time to catch an RV tech working on a trailer in the park. We had a chat with him, he will come back tomorrow to resolve the problem we have had for the past few months with a stiff sewer valve. We sent a letter off to Medipac to get a refund on our insurance since we are back in Canada 2 weeks ahead of schedule. We also arranged to have our mail from the winter couriered from our UPS box in Cochrane to our site here. That should make reading (not necessarily interesting) for a day or 2.  Men's curling is back on this evening.

Tuesday the RV tech came by with the valve we needed to replace. After a bit more than an hour the required repairs were complete. 

Wednesday we are still waiting for our mail; one day delivery seems to be taking a very long day.  According to the tracking  site, our package should arrive by 7:00 P.M. tomorrow night.  We had to make a trip in to Kelowna to visit the Kodoo store. Our phone has been acting up the past few days, so its time to replace it. Koodo provided us with a new phone, paid from our tab, so no cost to us. They tried to transfer the contacts, and the few pictures we had on the old phone to the new one, but the old phone wouldn't co-operate.   We spent the evening adding back in our contact info, and sending the pictures from the phone to our computer using Bluetooth.  Now all we have to do is figure out how to use the new phone.

Thursday we needed to hang around the trailer waiting for our mail to arrive.  In the meantime we put the cover back over the holding tanks, adding some of the metallic bubble-wrap insulation to the existing fiber-glass.    Mail still hasn't arrived by the time we posted the blog, but they do have until 7:00 pm to meet the most recent expectation we found on the UPS tracking web-site.