The TT Little Diamond was a nice peaceful place for two days to recharge before embarking on our border crossing stretch coming back into Canada. When we jumped into the truck this morning and banged in the Osoyoos address it showed about 3 hours and 48 minutes. Okay, that looks about right so off we went. Well little did we know that this GPS knew about a border crossing at Midway that we did not know existed. When we were about 11 miles from a border crossing our little GPS told us to turn left which led to another summit crossing. The GPS then indicated that we were 46 kilometres (30 miles) to the crossing. Hmmm. But our eta was still good, well let’s go for it.
So it was up and down twisty roads, hey look two cows on the road, wow, we continue through an area that looks like it was ravaged by a forest fire not to long ago, a bit spooky looking, we continue. At about 3 kilometres to the crossing we were actually on Border crossing road, okay.
We come upon a smallish building on the side of the road, two bays, one for cars, one for trucks (Rv’s etc). The sign says stop and wait for the border officer. We wait. Two minutes later a uniformed officer comes out to greet us. “What brings you over here” he says, we respond with, “well our gps brought us to you”, “ah you can’t rely on gps”. We share a chuckle. He goes through the usual rigmarole as he becomes more interested in our Airstream. Just then a pickup pulls into the other bay. He takes our passports and says he will be right back. Jan’s window is open at this point when he comes back and hands her the passports and wishes us safe continued travels. So this time our GPS saved us by going this way across the line. Yeah.
Now for our last challenge, the hill leading into Osoyoos from the east, it’s nasty. It is long and steep with some tight hairpin turns. The last thing you want to do is ride the brakes all the way down. We are in tow / haul mode which allows me to give the brakes a couple of pumps which indicates to the transmission that we need some help here. The tranny in turn gears down to give you this help. The truck did well with never getting beyond about 4200 revs. We arrived safely at our, two night, overnight stop at the NK’MIP RV Park. This is a beautiful large RV Park right on the eastern banks of Osoyoos Lake. We stayed here a few years ago on our RV test run but that was in October, now, at the end of June it is much busier. Just to recap, this RV Park is part of a winery, along with vacation condos, a horse riding area as well as all the beach activity toys one needs. Rent a ski boat, kayak, paddle board, all available here. This RV Park also has the best, right on the beach, off leash, doggy park. We will enjoy our two days here. Dinner to night was at the winery, just fantastic.
Some pics of our last few days, hope you enjoy…
The lake at the Little Diamond RV Park
Our great site for two nights.
Pool, clubhouse with pool tables, ping pong, even a frisbee golf area
Our phone GPS a few days prior to our crossing day. So the truck was about right.
Yup, two cows walking on the road. Don’t think she was expecting us.Lol
An beautiful, interesting drive.
A fabulous meal at the winery restaurant. Sampler food.
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