May 21, 2019
It is time to get moving again. We both commented yesterday that we felt we wanted to get moving east. We made a quick breakfast, hooked up the trailer and started for Enderby.
By 10:30 we arrived at the Armadillo Trailer factory and met with Mike, Jason and Andy. They gave us a short update to their busy shop. Mike explained that they had manufactured 20 more Armadillo trailers since ours!!! It was fun to see the different ideas and plans for some of the ordered trailers. They sat inside our trailer and looked at how we had set up the interior as well as gave us some other ideas of what we could do. Andy went to work immediately to install the second propane tank and we left to quell the quilting beast, by Debbie visiting the Pleasant Valley Quilting shop in Armstrong. We enjoyed a tasty sandwich at the Wild Oak Café.
Then Debbie wanted to tour the Barn Quilt trail, barns with quilt paintings on the exterior walls. She was given a map of the area and we proceeded to check out the various barns in the area. Even with a map, we still got lost, which made for some interesting discussion, given that my navigator is going to take us across Canada. We certainly enjoyed the “quilting pokemon” and the wonderful farms and agricultural landscapes of the Armstrong area.
We returned to the Armadillo factory and by about 5:30, Mike, Jason and Andy had completed the work on the trailer. We had a great visit with those guys and the service that we got was beyond our expectations. Mike gave us some Armadillo merchandise to wear on our trip to advertise the trailer. We said goodbyes and headed for Revelstoke by 6:00 pm.
We arrived at the Martha Creek Provincial Campsite around 8:00 pm. We drove around the site to pick out our campsite. We finally agreed on a site right on the edge of the lake and set up camp. We had eaten an early supper in Enderby so we decided to just enjoy the evening beside the lake with a glass of wine.
Surprise! At 9:30 the Campsite operator arrived in her truck and said, “You made it, you must be the Ackermans!” “Actually,” we replied, “We are the Van Otterloo’s.” “Well,” she said, “the Ackermans have reserved this site so you will have to move!” So at 10:00 pm, we had to move our rig to another site that was not reserved. That kind of took the romance out of the evening and we went to bed cursing those Ackermans! For some reason we hadn’t even checked the site post to see if the site was available.
Quilting in a Kayak 