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Kelowna was spectacularly beautiful. We had perfect weather for walking and sightseeing, a wine tour, and just lazing around.
Thanks, Scott and Andrea, for the suggestion to explore Knox Hill.
From Kelowna, we flew to Boundary Bay, which has a great airport with friendly service. We picked up a rental car at the airport and headed to Vancouver. We stayed downtown for good food and walking around, and did day trips from Boundary Bay to visit friends and family.
We cleared customs in Bellingham, then flew on to Renton Airport.
It was so nice to see my sister Georgia, her husband Neal, and their daughters Brigitte and Fiona.
A highlight of our trip was meeting my longtime editor, Ann Featherstone, in person for the first time. We’ve done many books together:
She and her husband Grenfell picked us up at the Nanaimo airport and we had lunch together, then toured around. A wonderful day!
The above map shows our entire three week trip.
After visiting the west coast, we began our trip back east on the south side of the border, stopping off for a couple of days in Glacier National Park in Montana. Our car trip up Going-to-the-sun-road was way more scary than being in the plane:
We continued east through North Dakota:
And the terrain changed as we got closer to Minnesota:
We stayed over in St. Paul and planned to fly directly home the next day but a storm got in our way:
So we landed in Saginaw Michigan and stayed overnight to weather out the storm. 