Great adventures in diving, RVing and travel
In this blog post, we will highlight our journey from the Kenai Peninsula to the Mat-Su Valley and on to Denali, where we spent several days. To Alaska Part 8: From the Mat-Su Valley to Denali Day 45We left the Kenai Peninsula today, driving back along the Sterling Highway, the …
To Alaska Part 7: Homer and Kenai and Bears, Oh My! Day 37 During this phase of the trip we explored two more parts of the Kenai Peninsula, often called “Alaska’s Playground” because of all the outdoor activities and opportunities that exist. And we took our second flight (this time …
To Alaska Part 6: Anchorage-Chugach State Park-Seward Day 30Can you believe we’ve been on this trip (To Alaska and Back in 80 Days) for a month now? Where has the time gone? Today we arrived back in a metropolitan area, driving through the suburbs of Anchorage to Eagle River Campground …
Part 4: The Alaskan Interior (Tok, Chicken, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park) Day 22We have made it to Alaska! For the next several weeks, we will explore most of the parts of Alaska that you can drive an RV to. Some people do take their campers on dirt or gravel roads …
Part 2: From SoCal to the Alaska Highway From Southern California it is 1,910 miles to the start of the Alaska Highway in the middle of British Columbia, Canada. We took 10 days to get to Dawson Creek, BC, and here are some highlights from the past week and a …
Our final trip of 2022 commenced a short distance up the coast in Ventura County, California. We camped for three nights on the Rincon Parkway, along the old Pacific Coast Highway between Ventura and Santa Barbara. This is a wild experience because you open your front door onto the Pacific …
Since 2022 has been the year of short trips for us, we had to fit in a couple more before the end of the year. Our trip to the Palm Springs area for Thanksgiving was our shortest RV trip ever, since I couldn’t leave home until I’d completed a teacher …
For our final leg of this RV trip in the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains, we headed back down U.S. 395, stopping for three nights in the small town of June Lake (just north of Mammoth Lakes). There are four lakes that form the June Lake Loop, and we were positioned …
After leaving Lone Pine, CA, we headed 150 miles north along U.S. 395, which is in the best shape of any highways we’ve traveled in a long time! On the way, we stopped in Bishop to grab lunch and bread at Erick Schatz’s Bakery (thanks, Amy, for another great recommendation!). …
Some Californians regularly visit the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains (skiing in Mammoth, climbing Mt. Whitney, or heading up the back way to Yosemite or Lake Tahoe), but we haven’t traveled to this area in over 25 years! We hope it won’t be another 25 years before we come through here …