Merritt to Okanagan Falls BC

It was a nice sunny 16C when we left at 8am. We took 5A down to Princeton, a beautiful mostly traffic-free drive. It got down to 14C as we worked our way south, and we started to notice smoke, from some forest fire somewhere. We didn’t see any actual fires, but it kept getting smokier, so we did get a bit concerned about what was ahead. No real problems though.

After turning east at Princeton, it’s another very pretty drive across hwy 3 (aka Crowsnest Hwy) to Keremeos, where we stopped at a fruit stand/wine shop. We’d never been through this area before on our earlier trips, a really nice drive.

From Keremeos we went north/east on 3A, until we met Hwy 97 again and turned south to Okanagan Falls, another great drive. Cathie's sister Donna and her husband live up in the hills above OK Falls, and we'll be visiting there for a few days.