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Posts from ‘May, 2006’

Vacation Summary Part 2/2

Over three or four days, we visited 22 of the over 70 wineries in the Okanagan area of British Columbia, and one in Washington State called Gold Digger who will be changing their name to Okanagan something or other. Of these wineries there were only 3 we didn’t like very much. One was [...]

Vacation Summary Part 1/2

Wednesday May 3rd we left Devon and drove to the Okanagan where we camped at Kukuli Campground near Kelwona. We have a lot of experience car camping but we have not done so for a number of years so it was a surprise when we saw the “Mongolian Yurts” available for rent for $60.00 [...]

The One Mile Challenge Has Been Met!

What category to put this into? How about weird and weird? Marilyn and I ran our one mile this morning in Montana between miles 69 and 70 on Highway 2 just beside Loon Lake on the highway. We actually ran much farther than that in each of our “one mile runs” but [...]

Trouble posting to the penguins…

I am having my posts returned from the penguin list because the email address I registered with does not match my webmail proxy thingy or whatever so I’ll have to redo my posts when I get back…

Some few pics from the wine tour…

Here is part of Gray Monks Winery

Gray Monks again:

Part of Mission Hill’s Wine Cellar

In Kelowna at the Bear Creek Campground we went for our first run this morning through the Bear Creek Trail which is about 5 kilometers I think but that’s just a guess based on the scale bar of one of those maps they always have at the trail head. It was a great run, [...]