Great adventures in diving, RVing and travel
Cindy Kratzer 
We recently returned from a week on Maui. Hawaii is always a delightful place to visit, and this was our first trip back in four years. Glorious mountains, sun, and ocean greeted us upon arrival. Our view from the plane The view from our room On our first evening, we …
We have returned from a 2 ½ week RV trip to the California Bay area and the Central Coast over the Christmas holidays. While we are currently dealing with the Southern California wildfires, it is healing to reflect on the beautiful places and unique animals we saw just a short …
After our first three days of diving in the southern part of Viti Levu (the largest and most populated island in Fiji), we headed around to the northernmost tip of the island to the Volivoli Beach Resort. Our 5-hour trip from Waidroka Bay to Volivoli Beach Resort Our view next …
Just 4 weeks after we returned from our Bali-Komodo dive trip, we jumped on an 11-hour flight from LAX to the South Pacific island-nation of Fiji. While we don’t normally schedule trips so close together, this was an opportunity for a third GoPro video workshop with Todd Kortte (sponsored by …
The main reason we signed up for this scuba diving trip traveling 450 miles on a dive boat from Bali to Komodo was the chance to see Komodo dragons in the wild. The second reason was the opportunity to dive in a remote area of Indonesia with some of the …
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 …