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Bratkartoffel for breakfast. I made them from the left over
Pellkartoffeln I made last night. We had freshly picked green beans
(by us!) and freshly dug up fingerling potatoes (also by us!) from
the farm stand near Seattle. Julia and Jonah helped snip the ends
off the beans and ate a ton of them…
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We landed in Merritt, a funny little town with a sweet little
nothing of a center. It’s surrounded by mountains on all sides,
fields to their feet. A white mist is hanging over the land. It
looks quite dreamy but is actually white smoke that’s drifted over
from a southern wild fire. We’ve been told that some of the roads to
the south might be closed off due to the fire, but I can’t seem to
find any info on the internet in the two seconds I have on in before
it either crashes or Steve shoes me away. All I have read so far is
about a fire on the border to Washington State. Could that be it?
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We unsuccessfully drive around a bit to find some suction
hose to replace the one that collapsed when we put hot oil through
it…
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The plan now is to go down south to Okanagan Valley. The wine
and fruit center is Kelowna and that’s where we are headed. It looks
to be very beautiful in my guide book, we’ll see.
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As we are driving the smoke is getting thicker, like fog
creeping in. It smells of burning wood now. I am wondering about the
roads with this smoke getting so much thicker.
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We are going up another mountain, the tallest one so far at
1995m, and the engine “is frying up” as Steven says.
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Well, the smoke never did get worse. It lifted for the most
part leaving only a bit of haze over Okanagan Valley.
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We found a hose at a hot tub place (the girl behind the
counter didn’t even know what it was called). New hose onboard we
drive to City Beach in Kelowna so the kids can play while Steve put
it in. I found a Water-splash park/playground/beach near Okanagan
Lake. It’s so amazing! It’s a very elaborate water splash
playground, completely free! That really tops it all. I liked the
wading pools in Seattle but this is just too much! What’s even
cooler is that today is pretty much the last day that it’s open! We
just caught it before it closes until next summer! We go lucky!
Nice!
