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We decided to take a different route back to BC via Hwy 2 through Idaho to the Kingsgate border crossing. (Got to add another state to the tally - neither of us had been to Idaho before). However, that did not seem to be a valid reason to the somewhat grumpy CBSA agent when we were crossing back into Canada. We passed up spending the night at Yahk hoping that we would get cell service (and internet via Huwaei) and be able to make up for over a week of no blog posts. But even when we got to Moyie Lake Provincial Park, where we did spend a rainy night,  there was no service.

It wasn't until we stopped at Creston for gas the next morning that we re-entered the connected world; and the sun returned. We climbed and descended the Salmo-Creston and stopped for lunch at Christina Lake but continued on to Osoyoos (no sites at Haynes Point and even the overflow was too crowded for comfort) and eventually settled into a less than perfect site at the north side of Okanagan Lake Provincial Park. Here at least blogging could resume and that evening we were able to upgrade to a better site for the night and in the morning made yet another move to a site much closer to the water which meant much less road noise. We spent a final sunny Okanagan day getting some maintenance (oil and filter change, transmission flushing, etc) on the van, making the requisite winery visit,  having the final swim (me)/wade (Mazy), prior to the last dinner al fresco,

before hitting the Coquihalla for the last drive home on a warm, sunny Saturday afternoon. Turns out we left just in time as the mountain behind the campsite was ablaze with a forest fire the next afternoon causing road closures that would have forced us on to the Hope Princeton.