Tuesday (16 Jul ) morning around 8:30 we left our overnight parking spot heading for Kamloops to meet our military friend who we served with on two base ( Holberg BC and Sioux Lookout ON ). Both bases are in the middle of nowhere. They insisted that we park in their driveway as they live on the outskirts of town where driveways are longer then a car's length so there was lots of room for us.  

We have been to their home 2 or 3 times in the past 20 years but we had to uses Carroll's trustee GPS to worm our way thru the city of Kamloops. Unfortunately, Kamloops has 2 seasons; winter and construction and we drove straight thru a  "war zone" in the middle of the city because our GPS said so. Luckily, a detour got us right back on the street we needed so all was not lost. 

We finally reached our friends place ( Marg and Joe Barker ) and we swamp stories about our families , military friends , both alive and dead and about our travels. They spend their winters in Montserrat and have done so for 30 years and yes we did visit them many years ago. Montserrat is not our cup of tea as it is too laid back.    By 11 PM we were all "talked out " and called it a night. Cheers