September 1. A while back, a pile of people gathered in Waterloo, Ont. on that day to wish us well. It’s been 27 years since then. Doesn’t feel that long but the calendar doesn’t lie. Not all the people who were there are still with us. We do miss them.
Fortunately, our landlord decided it was time to get into the vacation rental market with “our” place. No idea why this is expected to work better now than in past, but it is his call. We’d been itching to travel for a couple of years now so the change was welcome. Yeah, homeless again.
We started out by travelling to Mt. Baldy, a ski hill near Osoyoos, where we frequently ski in winter. The main purpose of the trip was to drop off our ski gear ready for our return. A second goal was that I have wanted to explore that area and the mountain in particular during the summer for a few years now. We didn’t have much time to explore but what we did was fun.
So, where did I take Liane out for our anniversary? We walked up the ski hill. Had a lunch of water, mixed nuts and dried fruit at around 7000ft. High class, B.C. style. It was really quite interesting seeing the terrain we ski all the time without the snow. That mountain is steep! And there are rocks everywhere. We will have a new appreciation for it next winter.
The other big feature of the area at this time is smoke. There are more than a hundred fires burning in BC and a fair number in the U.S.A. just south of there. The first day up there, we could smell the occasional hint of smoke. On the second day, it was everywhere. Our drive back to Victoria was even worse to the point Liane was having some mild breathing problems in some of the valleys.
I took a photo of the area west of the mountain. It shows the purple of the smoke covering the whole area.
