Sunday, July 20: Arriving

We get up at 4:00 to check in at 5:00 at a very busy Mexico City airport (even at this time!). The plane leaves at 6:45, with 30 minutes of delay because the heating system does not work. They adivse us that it will be very cold on board and we get very nervous, because all the jackets are checked in the suitcases. But somehow the pilot manages to get the heater working, so we end up sweating in the plane after all.

We arrive at the beautiful Vancouver airport, and get picked up by the Faserway bus. The transfer into the RV works really, really well, and we can start the trip at around 2:30 by stopping into the McDonald´s next to Fraserway.

Because Rudy told us to, we want to first go to Vancouver Island. So we go to the ferry, which I had reserved beforehand, and have to wait 2 hours (!) without a supermarket to stock up. But we use the time to start organizing a bit in the RV. The ferry trip is quite impressive! All the trucks and RVs in the lower deck, the cars on deck 2 and 3, and 4 more decks for passengers, bars, cafes etc. We buy playing cards and play our first round of cards.

At around 7 we arrive at Nanaimo and go shopping first. Klaus has to find out that you can only buy beer and wine at the Licor stores, but at least here they are open, unlike in Utah. Then we check into our first campsite in Westwood lakes and have our first soup in the camper.