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[GMCnet] Great GMC trip [message #324418] Tue, 26 September 2017 19:19
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We are sitting tonight in a lovely soft fruit orchard along Okanagan Lake a bit north of Penticton in British Columbia, Canada, in bright blue skies with no one else around. Doesn't get much better than that to watch fall cover the land. Last weekend we shared this beauty with forty or more of our GMC friends at a wonderful rally held at Harrison Hot Springs at the foot of Harrison Lake a short distance over the border and a bit east of the I-5.

Lots of new owners and first timers lowered the average age of this GMC Cascader group. At least on the west coast really nice coaches are selling easily and at prices one would expect for quality. The yard queens sit without interest out here.

For any of you looking to make a GMC trip west next summer I highly recommend planning in this loop into Canada. The loop runs from a border crossing at Osoyoos, BC (highway US-97 just north of Oroville, WA) up along Okanagan Lake to Vernon, BC, then west over past Kamloops, BC, to Cash Creek, BC, then south back to the border crossing at the I-5 near Vancouver, BC. There are two crossings there. One at the Peace Arch (celebrating the longest open border between two countries) and the other a bit east of there that usually has a bit shorter wait times.

About a 500 mile loop you will not soon forget. Enough up and down and back and forth to be interesting, but nothing very taxing and no real mountain passes. Our Prevost didn't even break a sweat. And, given the number of GMCs in BC, you are likely to see more than one on the road along the way.

If you really want an unforgettable trip, leave the GMC in or around Vancouver and take a fast ferry over to Victoria on Vancouver Island! Return back to Vancouver, pick up the GMC and head south down the I-5 to your favorite west coast destination.

Jerry Work
The Dovetail Joint
Fine furniture designed & hand crafted
in the 1907 former Masonic Temple building
in historic Kerby, OR
http://jerrywork.com


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Jerry & Sharon Work
78 Royale
Kerby, OR
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