Wednesday, July 16, 2014

 In Kelowna, British Columbia, in the Okanagan Valley,
Canada's equivalent of Napa Valley.  We were here the last week of July.  Stayed in a unique (for us) RV park called Orchard Valley, a working farm.  The RV sites - only 9 - were located right on the farm and were charming.  We would stay here again anytime.
While in Kelowna, we visited the Dirty Laundry winery a few miles south, where we bought some excellent wine.  Downtown Kelowna, there is a wonderful park with a walking trail alongside the Okanagan Lake, an 80-mile-long skinny lake that dominates the valley, making it a major tourist destination.  We also did a 13-mile bike ride on a rails-to-trails bike path that took us through two former train tunnels (see photo below) and 13 trestles, some of them very long over very deep ravines (see other photo below).  Great ride.