It is a fabulous drive...one beautiful mountain vista after another! There is no traffic and virtually no villages or homes. We learned in 2009, on our RV trip to Alaska through British Columbia, that this part of the world has miles and miles of beautiful, remote countryside that is an absolute joy to explore! The only problem is, if you are not carrying your house on your back, finding lunch stops gets iffy.
After many stops for photos, but no food, we arrive in Penticton, an hour of so north of the Washington, USA border, about 3:30PM: hungry and a bit cranky! This is a lovely old fashioned looking wine and fruit growing town.
Our plan is to spend two nights, having a nice early dinner at the Hillside Winery that we enjoyed so much in 2009 tonight, exploring the area and picking up our Tiger Blue cheese tomorrow. Then we will turn south and head home on Friday. This plan goes off track fairly fast as we try to find a motel/hotel that looks good. We passed, at the drive by stage, two old chain motels that Carolyn had marked as possibilities. The next two weren’t any better so we just picked one. We only book one night because we are not impressed.
The next little glitch is the restaurant; they have completely changed the menu and it is a funky, fixed price, very expensive, tapas type of thing. Not for us, so we go to an Italian place in town that has good reviews. Well, it is having a fixed menu, wine tasting dinner tonight....no thank you.
We meet a couple coming for the wine dinner and they suggest we try a Greek place, Theo’s. Thankfully it is a winner! The food is wonderful, but it has gotten late and we can’t do justice to the dinner.
After the long day, we are bushed and still under the weather, so we head for bed.
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