We left Oliver about 7:30 a.m. and just up the road we stopped to spend the rest of our Canadian money. We went into a 7Eleven and bought donuts and cookies for the four of us. About half way to the border out of Oliver was where there had been a landslide just 2 days after we left there on the way north. There had been a lot of rain and a dam up above somewhere had not held due to the government's lack of maintenance. It wiped out 5 houses and vineyards and closed the road in and out of town. The government did accept responsibility and are compensating the homeowners to some degree but they have lost their livelihood for about 7 years as well as everthing they owned.
The border crossing at Oroville was not far for us by that time. On the way into Canada it consisted of a few questions and a look at our passports. Coming back into the states they did that and then had us pull over to the side for them to come in and look inside. He opened one cabinet in the bedroom and the frig. but didn't take anything and on we went. We waited down the road for Ira and Bev who underwent the same thing. The two coaches parted company in Omak, WA because they are headed east to their home in PA. They have a stick house to go back to.
We have phone service again. Yeah!!! So I began making phone calls to the family. I had missed talking to the kids, cousin and step-dad. We are still into farm and orchard country probably apples. We stopped alongside a river near Chelan to eat and take a nap. The river was busy with boaters. We continued on thru a narrow mountain valley with lots of bikers heading the other direction. This was a Sunday so I suppose there was something big going on because they went on for miles in small groups or singularly. Found a DQ so Bob had to stop. We arrived at our WalMart parking lot in Yakima for the night.
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