Oct 31, 2019
Today would be the last leg of our journey. Our goal is to arrive on Vancouver Island in time to meet the grandkids as they set out to go “trick or treating”. Although Debbie celebrates every occasion during the year, Halloween is one of her favorites. She is a little disappointed to not be able to decorate or dress up for this year. She did buy a pumpkin that has been placed at the door of our trailer each night.
We said goodbye to our friends by 8:30 after eating a great breakfast that Connie had whipped up. She had made enough pancakes to feed an army, but they were delicious.
I have always enjoyed driving through the Fraser Canyon. Traffic was light and we wound our way along the twisting Fraser River, passing through the many quintessential tunnels and small communities.
After fuelling in Hope we meet the reality of suburbia. The traffic steadily grows in volume as you pass through Chilliwack and soon we are crawling along the choked freeway towards Vancouver. Debbie navigated us to take Hwy#17 to the Tsawwassen Ferry terminal, and we made it on time to board the 3:15. We sat in the line up for about 45 minutes until the Queen of Oak Bay swallowed us up. We would be able to see the kids dressed up!
We dropped the trailer at Rina and Jeff’s home in Cedar and then met them in Ladysmith. We walked with them through several streets as they ran with their friends to the different houses to collect their bounty of candy. We stopped in and visited for a short time with Ted and Heather, Jeff’s parents who live in the neighborhood. It was then time to go back to their house and try to put two very excited but tired young girls to bed. We stayed up with Rina and Jeff for a few more hours and then climbed into our trailer for our last sleep of the journey. Tomorrow we drive to our house.
Quilting in a Kayak 