Great adventures in diving, RVing and travel
After two days on the island of Bali (Indonesia), we arrived at the MSY Seahorse, our dive boat for the next 11 days, and were enthusiastically greeted by the 17 crew members who would be caring for us 17 scuba divers. After lunch, we received a safety briefing and dive …
After we had to abort our summer Rockies trip (because my mom fell and broke her arm, causing us to reroute from Calgary to Seattle and skipping our Glacier, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton legs), we’ve been itching to get back “out there” to see new places and critters. A dive …
Our friends from Calgary have talked about Kananaskis for 40 years, but the guidebooks say that this area is mostly visited by Albertans and other Canadians, and is definitely not well-known to Americans. Possibly because the area of Kananaskis is made up of several provincial parks, rather than one big …
We were sad to leave Jasper National Park after such fantastic wildlife viewing. But the drive south on the Icefields Parkway that connects Jasper and Banff was stunning on a sunny day. We stopped briefly to view the toe of the Athabasca Glacier. (We had actually walked out on the …
We spent a fabulous week at Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada, camping in the beautiful Whistlers Campground. Not as well-known as its southern cousin, Banff National Park, Jasper is less-crowded and more full of accessible wildlife than Banff. Wildlife lovers take note: Jasper at the beginning of June is …
While nothing can compare with our epic trip “to Alaska and back in 80 days” last summer, we had been wanting to return to the Canadian Rockies, which we had not visited since 2008 (pre-motorhome). So this was the year for this multi-week trip. Getting out of Southern California to …
It’s fun to get away for a special anniversary, so we recently headed to San Diego for a few days. There’s a lot to do there, and we’ve been many times before, but here were a few new things (for us), in case you’re looking for ideas. Petco Park – …
In our last post, we described the first part of our trip to French Polynesia, where we spent the week searching for and swimming with humpback whales off the coast of Mo’orea. For Part 2 of our Polynesian adventure, we left Mo’orea via ferry, and then flew from Tahiti (where …
After 5 ½ weeks at home (following our amazing Alaska adventure this summer), we headed in the opposite direction for a snorkeling and scuba diving adventure. The archipelago of French Polynesia is made up of 200 islands and atolls spread out over 1200 miles in the South Pacific, of which …
We are safely home after our incredible Alaska adventure. In this blog post, we will revisit some of the amazing places we saw on our 11-week journey and include some short videos not seen in previous blog posts. In total, Hank drove our motorhome 8,272 miles from our home campground …