Wild at Heart: British Columbia RV Adventures: Episode 1

Hi folks remember last fall when I last spoke to you about road travel when we were getting our beaver motorhome ready for the 2025 traveling season when we had to replace our 27 year old Norcold absorption refrigerator cutting it in half remember the mess I made to get it out and preparing the hole for a replacement then heading down to our local marine store where we found a used AC DC compressor style marine refrigerator no more propane there's a Dometic at a steal of a price of about $625 versus probably $25 or $3,500 that we would have spent on a new one it's a little worn on the front but I can fix that and then surgery that interrupted everything I had to have my knee replaced with this weird mechanical thing and then when I was healed enough after three or four months remember I made new panels for the new fridge installed the fridge which turned out pretty good although I messed up on the color and to test my new knee after four months I drove about 30 kilometers to our local RV shop to have our 27 year old propane tank revalved and certified for another lifetime it's a huge tank about 120 liters and then I slapped on some grease on our blue ox tow bar remember that video of preparing and making your tow bar happy and then for some weird reason I sat on a bench by the ocean and told you about a route that we were planning for the summer of 2025 that I referred to as a Marge Simpson route well we're finally there we're on the Marge Simpson route in British Columbia so let's get aboard Monty and see what's happening inside and out hi yes you do well at this early stage of our trip I had already lost my wife no I knew Michaela was behind me in our little tow car the white Fiat Lola we usually don't attach the tow car when we go on the ferries because number one if you ever have to back up and you've got your tow car attached it's very difficult you have about six inches of play and that's it and secondly we have issues grinding the tow bar into the the car deck at times on the BC ferries because of the tide issues if the ramp isn't fairly flat and you've got a bit of a rise you can really grind your your tow bar so we just separate the two of them and then we catch up so on this highway I knew that there was a pull out just ahead and that's where I was going to go and wait for Michaela this is honey is Campbell's and that would be it isn't that a beautiful building where do we go to the left or right this park near the the barn so let me just do the run all right so we're back in Maudie of course we have to taste this what we just bought so honey what's the verdict so honey it's all honey fireweed vanilla cinnamon Grand Marnier spiced rum and amaretto I think amaretto is my favorite although I love the vanilla and the cinnamon's to die for and then what about the wine oh this is the mead this is straight up mead and this one has kick sap berries and crab apple and they're all delicious terrific but that's not your dinner huh did you see this line said it can wait text stop four and a half kilometers and it oh really so they they provide hot spots that is great so we're on our way to Boston Park we are yes it's bringing us back to the Derry continue straight on seven zero okay I think it's a good idea when I was behind you this morning I know that you didn't have any rear lights on once in a while yeah I think that there's legality issue I don't want to show you a big vehicle that's the elk said scuzzy creek oh right around gas was super cheap it was $149.99 peaceful cake babe where do we sign in you know I feel kind of funny walking around with my camera at this time of day so I don't want to do that I'm just going to scan the the park it's not very big you can see how it's terraced up the slope but you know you can come up here and let's go see our friends Ross and Sarah who are traveling with us in their 1987 Volkswagen Ispalia hi Sarah are you oh my goodness do you mind me filming you this is Sarah my dear friend from high school and this is her husband Ross hey Ross you're on tape man okay we had a shower in that what did you how was it that was great and they don't yeah this was a freebie and hot hot water hot hot water it's all good good so yeah it's been a great location like our little place up here this is really nice can I just scan the inside of Vincent I love that fridge I do know it but it's a it's a okay well there we are Ross and Sarah's campsite I've disturbed them so I think I'll walk around and disturb more people okay let's walk up to the office and just check this out before we leave now I met the owner's daughter last night she's amazing she's a lovely person she's a really accomplished singer and she travels here two hours from the Abbotsford area which is near Vancouver to help her mom and dad out and they've done a great job just fixing this place up so let's go inside hi Alicia hi Bill how are you very nice to see you again nice to see you too we feel like family already we came in last night and you made us feel so welcome oh so could you tell us a little bit about this place and and where do people come from we're from the U.S. Canada people do come from the U.S. we get a lot of travelers who are heading up to Alaska which is really exciting because they have a lot of adventures to tell us about we have travelers especially in the last few years who are more local so we have people coming who live in Abbotsford or in Pitt Meadows and they're wanting to check out our own province now instead of traveling abroad so much so people really do come from everywhere including we have some people in fact checking in tomorrow from England so oh wow we have a lot of people from from Holland and Germany and England Denmark it's do they stay long most times when people are here internationally they'll stay one or two nights yeah because they do have quite an itinerary that they're sure focusing on but it is so fun like with all the different types of guests that we have you know some of them we've had people book and they're you know saying we're going to come and we're going to take the ferry on this day and it'll be like a Friday long weekend and I'll and I'll be like you might want to rethink that because you know it's uh it's going to be really busy so so it's nice to help travelers kind of you know make their itinerary and stuff too well you've done a wonderful job and we're coming back and you've made our trip started our trip really special thank you oh I'm so glad we can't wait to have you guys back and hopefully for two nights so we can you guys spend some time with you okay thanks to meet all of you thanks Alicia bye