Great adventures in diving, RVing and travel
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
In this blog post, we continue our journey home, backtracking on the Haines and Alaska Highways, then traveling down the Stewart-Cassiar Highway and the Glacier Highway to one more tiny piece of Alaska. We finish this post by leaving British Columbia and re-entering the lower-48 in Washington. To Alaska and …
In this blog post, we begin our journey home, leaving the main part of Alaska, backtracking on the Alaska Highway, and then traveling to a portion of Southeast Alaska (the panhandle). To Alaska and Back Part 9: Leaving and Re-Entering Alaska (in Haines)! Day 56As we departed the Fairbanks area …
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 3: Driving the Alaska Highway through Western Canada Day 13This part of our journey entailed driving most of the Alaska Highway to Tok, Alaska, the first town in Alaska via the Alaska Highway. After almost two weeks of travel from Southern California, we crossed the Rocky Mountains from west …