5C's Que Pasa

….well it does seem that fall is in the air but we are back to heat  here in the valley so one day at a time.  However up on the mountains they did get a dusting of snow at Big White, one of our many ski hills! The most important and very very big news [...]

Right along with the very cool temperatures arrived friends Terri & Mike.  They are in the area doing research for a book they are updating.  We met this couple several years ago while RVing in Mexico.  I guess you could say we knew them before we met them.  How so you ask? Mike & Terri [...]

Who knew? Seriously, who knew that yellow roses and grape tomatoes would become such great pals and reproduce so well?

……if your RV insurance arrived and it was 50% less than usual? Let me explain.  We have our RV insured for full replacement value.  We use a combination of a private insurance company and the Crown corporation ICBC to insure the motorhome.  The ICBC portion has been $669.00 for several years.  However Aviva with whom [...]

Last Friday evening, Sept.9th, the night after the winery event, I was in bed about 9:30PM. Colin was outside playing his guitar when a security guard came by and asked him to look back over his shoulder.  There it was, perhaps the first time ever here, a light show, the Northern Lights.  Colin woke me [...]

Heads up folks!!  Change has come….not necessarily good but not the end of the world.   How you interpret the new information and how you react to it will determine how you handle it! Before reading further please read this, http://www.senasica.gob.mx/?Idioma=2&id=623 There has been quite a bit of discussion on RV.net, click here for the [...]

…when you get asked over and over again about travelling to Mexico?  We all have answers and these change from time to time depending on current events.  A fellow blogger, Croft, received an inquiry on his blog and chose to answer in a post.  With his permission I reprint his answer posted September 6, 2011. [...]

Anthony von Mandl, Proprietor of Mission Hill writes, “At Mission Hill Family Estate our goal is to achieve the extraordinary.  We are thrilled to showcase these magnificent sculptures alongside our wines surrounded by the natural beauty of the Okanagan Valley.” We were the invited guests of Christa Frosch of Sotheby’s International Realty Canada. From the [...]

What a week!!  I am worn out.  I napped part of Friday. Thursday evening we attend a gala gala do, an epic event.  More on that soon.  It has been so amazing I still can’t digest it. The fire is out!  Yeah!  But yesterday, Friday about 12:41PM, Vancouver Island experienced a 6.4 magnitude earthquake.  We [...]

Last week mi amore took my vehicle into BMW for a few small repairs.  One was a seat belt thing, a new spring has to ordered.  He also wanted them to check out the problem he had with the radiator on August 3rd, click here for that incident. So he waited and waited and waited [...]