April 19, 2021 – The Final Trek Through Canada

We rose early and hit the road to finish the last leg of our trip to get to the USA Border. It wasn’t too long of a trek this day we figured it would be a good time to do a little sight seeing along the way. The first stop was the Osoyoos, BC sign. We had passed the welcome sign last summer but, never got a picture of all of us there. We hadn’t pulled the tripod out this time just balanced the phone on the ledge, it worked pretty good for this family photo.

The next stop was Hope Slide in Hope, BC.

The Hope Landslide is the largest landslide in Canada and slid on January 9 1965. The slide had no survivors and killed four people two of which were never found. An estimated Forty-seven million cubic meters of rock came from the slide and it is 152.4 meters deep of rock. After the slide, they had to move the highway to a different spot along the slide. Outram lake was hit dead on by the slide which moved the water along the mountain side destroying some of the trees.

The Hope Slide – Written by Malachi Misiurski

On the way there we got a message from Kevin’s Aunt Shirley that BC was locking back down and she was wondering if we still wanted to come. Truth was at this point we had already come this far there really wasn’t any turning back. We moved forward and just kept to the plan. As we look back we realize what a blessing it was that Matt and Angel had RV parking and allowed us to stay there.

I felt this trip was only possible because of all the divine timing and contacts that got us this far. It all lined up just the way we needed from Kevin’s job, to the renters that contacted us for our Hinton house, and the offer we got on our Ituna house. We couldn’t have asked for better time, truthfully, if we would have left any later, Canada would have been completely shut down and we wouldn’t have even been allowed into BC to get across the border.

The next day we actually found out that BC had announced all campgrounds would be closed, then on. As of Friday, no one from any other province would even be allowed into BC. We had decided to cross at this border as it was the closest distance for me to have to drive the camper. We needed a few days in BC to get Kevin’s Covid test done for his flight and all the travel arrangements made for crossing the border. Our timing couldn’t have been any better as we left Thursday before everything got locked down again.

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