Lists, Lists and More Lists !

Watching the Tour de France yesterday morning, I started making lists; lists of food, equipment, clothing, and a list for ES 's packing for YGS. There is also a list here by my chair where I add things as they pop into my head . Wednesday morning I'll compile all the lists to make sure we have everything. [ no doubt we'll forget something ! ] Fortunately we are not too far from a fairly big town where we can pick something up if we direly need it. We pass by close to this town as we will travel from the campsite into the national park.

This will be us on Wednesday !

One thing we have left to do is to pack our  bedding. Three years ago as I was  recuperating from a knee replacement, I finished off these 5 quilts, all hand quilted !  They were all meant for camping, so in they'll go ! I checked the weather of the camp ground and it was only 4*C this morning !

Our little Trillium trailer is  old; 45 years ! It is 6' x 9' !! We bought it  in 2002 for $ 1 2000 as we were too old camp in our tent. We wanted to be off the ground and more protection as we usually camp where there are bears. Also we needed heat as  it is often chilly in the Rocky Mountains. As we did more and more camping, we found we could have a site with electricity! So now we pack a long extension cord with a power bar. In Washington State it was brutally hot so we bought a small fan which kept us cool enough to sleep. We bought a small lamp so we could sit inside to read when the bugs became too bad. I'm thinking this time out we may put in a little electric heater . After all why use up our propane when we have electricity that we are paying for !

We've frozen bottles of water for the cooler so we won't have to get ice for a couple of days. All the meat will be frozen except for the rotisserie chicken we always buy for the first supper. No cooking the first night and the rest of the chicken is used up in pita pockets for our first lunch. We do plan to visit the National park the first two days, a little less traffic and tourists during the week. The weekend we'll spend at the provincial campground exploring.  

We're getting organized !