We took good advantage of the Vulcan Golf Course StaynPlay package, booking 79 rounds of golf each. We only had to cancel two days due to rain. Pulling our hand carts the 12 km to the golf course, around 18 holes and back to the trailer was great exercise.
We went with Trev and family to Chain Lakes. John paddled out in a kayak with Trev and Anthony.
George came to visit us in mid-July. He brought us a flash drive with scans of the photos he took when we did a 3 week trip around Great Britain in 1983.
Carol and Dave visited with us for a few days.
Janet and Trish came out from Sicamous shortly after. We enjoyed visiting with them and doing an 9 hole round at the golf course.
Karen and Dominique came for the August long weekend.
George stopped in again in mid-September.
Then we went up to Edmonton for a couple of days, staying at a hotel in Nisku, to visit with John's Dad, Ann and Daniel, Joan and Alf, Buncha, and Fern.
We had arranged to get our broken sewer valve replaced near Okotoks on October 1 on our way to the campground in Black Diamond. However, we had a snow storm that made the RV shop's yard impassable. We scheduled another day that was spoiled by another snowfall. As it turned out, we should have scheduled a day during the summer and taken the effort to pack the trailer up to get the repair done.
Elizabeth came out to visit us in Black Diamond.
On October 15, we headed for Regina to celebrate Dominique's grad from university. We stopped at Killton Hill RV Park near Swift Current, then the #1 RV Park in Regina. It is a new park created due to the Regina Bypass construction going through the house of the owner's land. Only about 20 sites, with about 6 units there long-term. A little awkward to get into unless you know the area, recently, since the roads are changed due to the bypass. We got caught up on laundry at Karen's on Thursday. On Friday, we attended two ceremonies, the first in the morning for Dominique's certificate from Campion College, at the UofR, and the second for her degree in Psychology with a certificate in Public Relations from the UofR. On Saturday, we got to meet Dominique's boyfriend when we went to the Rock Creek Tap and Grill to celebrate.
On Sunday, we headed back to Alberta, as we had to pick up our final mail for the summer and John's prescriptions. We decided to stay in Milk River, about the same distance with the trailer as Vulcan, and drive into Okotoks the next day. However, we missed the turn in Bow Island due to stopping at the UFA for diesel, past the turn. Instead of going through Foremost to Milk River, we went south from Taber. This brought us out at Warner, so we stayed in the campground there for a couple of nights rather than going further south to Milk River.
On Tuesday we headed across the border, stopping at our usual spot at Lincoln Road in Helena. It was 'converted' to a KOA this year. The only difference we saw was a $11 increase in the nightly rate. Maybe they have plans, but the office is only staffed for a couple of hours in the morning. After getting set up, we headed to Verizon to get our US phone activated. We were able to retain the same phone number again, but Verizon has dropped 3G support, so we had to buy a compatible phone. The plan the rep put us turned out not to have hotspot capability, a priority for us. However, we were able to get the plan changed, to a cheaper version.
Wednesday morning, we woke up to a snowstorm. Fortunately it was a light one, so the snow didn't stay on the highways as we headed south. We made our usual stop for bread, pancake mix and some cinammon buns at Wheat Montana. Then we continued on to Fort Hall for the night.
Thursday we had to wait for the weather to warm up from about -6C, since that can freeze the water lines under the trailer. With all of the cold nights this fall, we have gone through 3 30 lb propane tanks, so far, running the furnace to keep the water lines warm. We left about 10 AM, when it had warmed up to just below freezing. We stopped at Cactus Pete's Casino RV Park in Jackpot at the north end of Nevada for the night.
spoiled by another snow storm.
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