VAN LIFE IS OFF TO A ROUGH START | Vancouver to Kelowna

Oh, we're going to wine country today. It's going to be flat. It won't be that cold. You can tell we have four people from Texas, from Texas and Tennessee cause we're all so excited to see the snow. How's it going? I'm thinking if we just take off the whole awning, that probably be our best option. What do you think? Yeah. Morning's off to a bit of a rough start. The awning couldn't really hold up to the pouring rain last night. It wasn't even raining that hard. It was not even raining that hard. We woke up with a loud clang and I came outside to see like pieces of our awning on the ground and I was trying to hold it up and get it in and fix it. And I realized I couldn't. So I texted Nate. I was like, dude, I'm sorry. I know it's 7am, but can you come help me? So this is how we're starting day three of van life. It's not necessarily like a big deal that the awning broke. The real problem that we're running into right now is that we can't go anywhere because we can't get the awning to go back in and we can't just drive down the road with it just flapping off the side of the van. I haven't even had coffee yet. Seems to be working. Don't jinx it yet. I'm trying to guide it in. No way. I can't see. My hood's in the way. We did it. It's definitely broken, but at least it's in. This broken joint snapped in the middle of the night. Here are all of the screws that are missing and whatever these pieces are. I was trying to reach Heath and Alyssa's wifi router and they're in the camping spot across from us. And so to upload the vlog, I set my computer on the ground at the front of our van to be as close as possible to their van. And then I didn't close our door all the way and it rained and it dripped through our door onto my computer. We woke up to a very wet keyboard. So my computer's taking a little nap right now. It's been a crazy morning. Oh, my feet are cold and dirty. Wow. So we got the awning back in, which means that our road trip can continue and we're not going to be stuck here in Vancouver for the next two weeks. Not necessarily my ideal way to start the morning, but I do feel more productive than I usually feel at 10 a.m. We had all intentions of doing a full van tour this morning, but since the weather's kind of gross, I think we're just going to hit the road and wait until a prettier, sunshinier, picturesque place. This is going to be like our first big road trip. We have five hours to Kelowna. We were supposed to stop on the way and like do a cool hike, but we'll see what happens with the weather. We're hoping there's more sunshine in Kelowna. Still raining. Okay. We've made it about an hour outside of Vancouver and we're making a quick pit stop at Walmart because that's where everybody wants to go when they come to Canada. Walmart. Are we about to get matching shoes? I'm going to get the black version. These like have no ankle support. These are not comfortable. I think they're the only waterproof option. So we looked up the weather in Banff this morning, which is where we're heading in a couple of days and apparently it's going to be snowing. So the all birds aren't going to cut it. So we're shopping for some hiking boots. The cheapest ones possible. Because we're going to throw them away. Okay. Quick stop at Walmart turned into a few new pairs of hiking boots and a hundred dollars of groceries. We won't go hungry in the mountains. I want to eat all of this right now. Okay. Let's go to Kelowna. We just ate about half of the groceries that we bought at the store for lunch and got huge coffees for the road. Now we have three hours until we get to Kelowna. A few miles on the road, not on the camera. All right. We were about an hour outside of Kelowna, but we are running out of gas. Even though it's been gross and wet outside, the drive has still been absolutely beautiful. The clouds are hanging down in the mountains. You have the bright yellow fall trees that are contrasting with the evergreen trees. For a day of bad weather, it's been a good drive. This trip could get expensive. That was $75 of gas and it didn't even fill it all the way up. And it wasn't even empty. Okay. Back on the road. Let's see how he did. That was close to full. Snow! Everywhere! Alyssa just wanted to pull over because this is crazy. I was like, Oh, there's a couple of flurries. That's nice. Oh wait, this is getting serious. And I exited and I was like, I don't know where this road goes. You can't see anything. This snow just came out of nowhere. Like it's been like raining, raining, raining. And then it was like, boom, everywhere. So we just pulled over at a random stop and we're getting out. Are you so excited? I think we're making snowballs. Wow. It's cold. This is crazy. I was hoping we were going to see snow when we got to Banff. I did not expect to see it today. I can't believe this. It's September. You're lucky your wife isn't in front of you. I did not expect to use these waterproof boots so soon. It's a good thing we bought them. I was like, I'm probably not going to need gloves. You can tell we have four people from Texas. From Texas and Tennessee. Cause we're all so excited to see the snow. That was fun. I'm freezing. Getting a bit worried that we don't have snow tires. Nate gave me the cold job of fetching the camera. My hand is frozen. We made it. It's about 7pm. We have finally made it to Kelowna and we drove straight to a restaurant to eat some dinner and we are meeting a friend who lives here. So it's all going to be okay. Everything's fine. Okay, here we go. I literally have like two pairs of pants and two jackets and the new Walmart boots that I'm going to wear every day for the next two weeks. But I don't even care. It's going to be this cold. It needs to be snowing.