{"id":23308,"date":"2010-03-29T15:48:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T22:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=5535"},"modified":"2016-09-16T13:47:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T10:47:22","slug":"departure-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/departure-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Departure Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/croftsmexico.blogspot.com\">Croft<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/lifeonourark.sicottepress.ca\/\">Gypsy<\/a>&#8216;s imminent departures from their wintering spots are making my Itch even worse. Four weeks left before I head back to Dawson City!<\/p>\n<p>I had big plans for this winter, but only accomplished half of them, the renos. Unfortunately, my budget did not permit me to do much traveling so I will need to come back to Vancouver Island. I might have another trip up my sleeve this month, but it will really depend on how much further along I am in the preparations for departure.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, the renos were more important to me. One city is starting to look pretty much like another and there are a lot of forests in Canada, but I only have one home and it hasn&#8217;t been working for me as much as it could. I think my travels will be much more enjoyable now.<\/p>\n<p>Today, after putting in several hours at my contract, I cleaned the cab and made sure Miranda starts. Beyond the interior preparations I have a lot of exterior considerations:<\/p>\n<p>-oil change;<\/p>\n<p>-tire pressure check and adjustment;<\/p>\n<p>-fresh water system flush;<\/p>\n<p>-black tank dump and flush;<\/p>\n<p>-gas tank fill;<\/p>\n<p>-propane fill (will be done in Chilliwack)<\/p>\n<p>My last day of work should be April 28th, so departure is still right on schedule for May 1st. A big BOO goes to BC Ferries for hiking up their rates again. I paid $193 to come over. It seems I will now have to pay $214, a $21 increase. BOO!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Croft and Gypsy&#8216;s imminent departures from their wintering spots are making my Itch even worse. Four weeks left before I head back to Dawson City! I had big plans for this winter, but only accomplished half of them, the renos. Unfortunately, my budget did not permit me to do much traveling so I will need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,1085,632,635,5,3,8],"tags":[767],"class_list":["post-23308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-campbell-river-vancouver-island-bc-canada-travel-bc-canada-travel","category-canada","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-work","tag-cruisesferries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}