Originally Posted by jossie (Post 10596206)

That's kinda what I'm sayin? Great places to explore within a 24 hour drive. Sounds like you had some great adventures. Did you drive all the way from Toronto to California as this would be quite a trek to do in a couple of weeks. You must have passed through some cool places along the way? Mustang Convertible could mean you aren't Okanagan material though :rofl:

Originally Posted by jossie (Post 10596206)

That's kinda what I'm sayin? Great places to explore within a 24 hour drive. Sounds like you had some great adventures. Did you drive all the way from Toronto to California as this would be quite a trek to do in a couple of weeks. You must have passed through some cool places along the way? Mustang Convertible could mean you aren't Okanagan material though :rofl:

Originally Posted by rivingtonpike (Post 10597382)

Welcome to the land of Island Time!!

Originally Posted by jossie (Post 10596206)

That's kinda what I'm sayin? Great places to explore within a 24 hour drive. Sounds like you had some great adventures. Did you drive all the way from Toronto to California as this would be quite a trek to do in a couple of weeks. You must have passed through some cool places along the way? Mustang Convertible could mean you aren't Okanagan material though :rofl:

Originally Posted by Oink (Post 10597423)

It doesn't have to, you’ve just got to get on it. I drove From NYC or Eugene, Oregon, left at 9:30am Monday got into Eugene at 10:30pm on the Wednesday in time for a pint. And I stopped two nights in a motel. And its about 400 miles further.

Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 10597435)

San Diego to Detroit with a supertoked cat stretched across the dashboard, stopping only for petrol, to pee and to watch the finale of "The Bachelorette" in a bar. A couple of days. The why of it escapes me now.

Originally Posted by Hawk13 (Post 10597415)

Thanks. Are you still running the store with ice cream (or ice cream store - hope I have this right) in Mill Bay? May have to stop in after a bike ride at Tzouhalem this summer.

Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 10596804)

Yes, we drove all the way. I had a job to do in Vegas so we stopped there for the best part of a week. As Tangram indicates, my point was that starting in the Okanagan wouldn't have made much difference. Driving to either coast from there or from here requires more time than most people can take off work.

Originally Posted by rivingtonpike (Post 10597563)

We don't have a store, but we do manufacture the ice cream just off the Malahat at our factory there. There are a few outlets for it in Mill Bay - most of our sales are in Greater Victoria and the Saanich Peninsular.

Originally Posted by jossie (Post 10597593)

Starting from the Okanagan to California vs starting from Toronto to California wouldn't make much difference :confused: It's approx 40 hours round trip difference. There comes a point where you would be driving more than you would be doing anything else doesn't there? My point was that I like where the Okanagan is located because within a 6 hour radius you can drive to Banff, Jasper, Vancouver, Vancouver Island, The Kootenays, Leavenworth etc.. so a good selection of destinations for a long weekend and then if you expand that radius to 24 hours for 1 or 2 week camping vacations you can get to California, Disneyland, Los Angeles, Yosemite, Oregan coast etc. for that reason I like where the Okanagan is located. If you apply the same reasoning to Toronto you will have a different list of places - New York, Quebec etc.

Originally Posted by jossie (Post 10595699)

If you are active, into the outdoors and into such things as golfing, skiing, snow shoeing, camping, hiking, mountain biking, fishing, water skiing, relaxing on the beach, Atving, snowmobiling, touring wineries, hunting, rock climbing etc then you will love it here. It is a great location for travelling and exploring places such as the Oregon coast, Vancouver, Vancouver island, Banff, Jasper, Waterton, the Kootenays etc. Also places like Yosemite National park, the Grand canyon, Disneyland, California etc are all places within travelling / camping distance if you are adventurous and like to get out exploring. If you are into shopping, designer clothes, pub culture, staying indoors then there is a chance you might not like it in the Okanagan. Climate is very mild. People already golfing down around town for the past couple of weeks but the ski resorts are also still open up in the mountains.

Originally Posted by Theoldfields (Post 10597859)

Thanks for the reply - it sounds like we should fall firmly into the we'll love it category. Less than three months to go now....

And if we don't love it we can always test out the theories on how long you need for a road trip to California!

Originally Posted by jossie (Post 10597870)

Great - I'm sure you guys will love it here. 3 months - weather should be nice and hot for you by then. I sometimes miss that whole feeling of nerves mixed with exitement that you get leading up to the move. I wish you all the best :thumbsup:

Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 10597622)

Surely if the point of living somewhere is to be able to go elsewhere the place to live is London. Once you're not it in London it doesn't really matter if you're in Toronto or the Okanagan or Liverpool; you'd have to choose those places on the basis that travel is terribly important.

That said, your original point was that the merit of BC was proximity to CA. Well, people can get to CA from Toronto, even to Newfoundland. I don't see that BC is better in this respect than anywhere else. Chicago would probably be the very best, there or Indiana.