Smoky Eyes

Firstly, we’d like to apologise to our readers who had their blog update email lost in their spam folders last week. Our only explanation is that Rosie was in charge of posting, whereas it’s normally Ollie’s task. If you want something done right… Hopefully it won’t happen again. We also post reminders on instagram most Saturday to ensure our efforts result in at least some people reading the blog! You can find us at @roaming_rollie

It’s been smoky the last week in BC (and a lot of North America!). This is a result of the horrendous forest fires along the west coast of the States. One day had Ollie’s eyes watering, and a short walk led to a severe headache and dry throat. Rosie was fine.

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Our last workaway didn’t start too well. We are old hands at workaway experiences now and can’t be fooled into working over our agreed hours. This led to a small argument, but once we had made our points it went smoothly after that. The hosts certainly were characters, a couple of hippies in their 70s. We’ve had lots of lectures on how non-organic food isn’t food, how governments are ruining the world and how we can heal all of our ailments with beets. They have 160 acres of land, but most of it is wild, which led to some challenging and random hikes! One exciting thing that happened was we saw some of the kale and chard we packaged waiting to be shelved in Save on Foods grocery store.

After leaving the workaway on Wednesday we spent a few days in Kamloops. This included some admin tasks, like a pay per minute car wash (Ollie took this challenge very seriously), and some fun things like a back alley mural tour.

This weekend we are visiting our friends in Sun Peaks. This will be a good test run, as we have decided to book an AirBnB from mid October to mid November here. We’re hoping to use this time, and most of the winter, to get some online work and earn some money. Then Rollie can continue to roam in style next Spring.