Osooyos, BC

'Osooyos' meaning the narrowing of two lakes is known as Canada's desert and home of summer fruit-picking, vineyards lined the hillsides – separated by 'craggy' trees and lowland grasses.lsides. 

We spent two nights here, one near the beachfront, behind a hotel closed for the winter months. This was where we filtered our first batch of veggie fuel and where we also experienced a “veggie explosion” - not paying attention to what we were doing – we over-filled the veggie tank in the back of the bus!  What a mess!  While there, we also had the opportunity to view the documentary “DIRT” with commentary by a local farmer for FREE. 

People were quick to come out of the wood-work here in a small town, we made connections with the locals quite quickly, which is great for finding out where you should be and where you shouldn't. The second night we were asked to leave our 'claimed' parking space – our first official by-law warning that if we didn't move our bus we would owe a fine of $100. We moved to the Husky for the evening and showered at a friend's motel room nearby.

Figuring we had spent enough time exploring Osooyos, we decided to try out our veggie oil system, while we continued to head west through Princeton, BC. Just outside of Osooyos, Scott does a victory dance in celebration of the “veggie system” working! All of our hard work filtering oil the day before paid off - thankfully!