The Agnew Family aboard the "Dog House"

We continued to drive north as our destination was Vernon and the home of Margaret’s friends. As we headed north we saw a lot of vineyards and wineries, unfortunately it was too difficult to stop with the trailer (none of the parking lots were large enough). The guys wanted to check out a Princess Auto store, and as it was lunch time we stopped in Kelowna. We found a mostly empty parking lot beside a gas station so Ed and I pulled in. Colin had missed the turn and parked in another lot about a block away. First item on the agenda was food so we headed to the IHOP for a great lunch. As per usual, “care packages” were made for Zaph and Splash. Margaret and I decided to take Zaph his treat and as we were walking across the parking lot, Margaret said there’s someone by your trailer. Margaret said “What are you doing?” and the guy jumped about 10 feet exclaiming “you scared me”. He said he was poking around in the box of the pickup truck because he had accidently dropped his lighter and it fell in — yeah right. I climbed into the box of the truck and proved there was no lighter and Margaret suggested that he be on his way. We checked out the truck and trailer and everything seemed OK. The truck box has the extra fuel tank, a couple of tool boxes (locked and secured to the truck), boards for leveling the trailer and some firewood — nothing worth stealing.

Margaret’s friends (Wendy and Ernie) live about 15 km from Vernon on a 1 acre lot with a very large driveway. They had told Margaret that they had room for both trailers so we could just park at their house. Sure enough the driveway was big enough to hold both our trailers plus trucks as well as their motor home.


A view of Kelowna lake.


Driving into Kelowna