Category: United States
August 5 – August 11, 2026. I stepped out of the van. It was 8:30, and the sun was due to set. We had been camped out at this overlook with our friend Holly since late afternoon. Parked side by…
July 29 – August 2, 2026. We decided we wanted to drive the North Cascade Highway. But where to start? This highway (also known as State Route 20) spans 436 miles across northern Washington State. Starting in the west on…
July 26 – 28, 2026. Standing on the edge of a craggy rock face over the water, he looked around, surveying the lake below. A narrow section of a 50-mile-long canyon, the water below was full of kayakers, swimmers, paddleboarders,…
July 22 – 25, 2026. I had never heard of the city of Anaconda before our traveling friends invited us to come visit them there. The city name sounded rather exotic, being the name of a large constrictor snake found…
July 6 – 9, 2026. We were really just passing through Colorado to get to the Pacific Northwest. But we have trouble just passing stuff by, and Rocky Mountain National Park was so close. So we decided to visit before…
The glass plate is carefully lowered into the solution. Under a red light, an image starts to emerge. The clear glass gradually darkens, revealing lines and shapes in a range of greys to stark blacks. A figure appears. Her image…
August 25 – September 1, 2022 It was late August and almost time for us to leave Alaska and start heading south. But I had one more place I wanted to go. To Deadhorse, north of the Arctic Circle, 415…
Alaska is home to many mountains. We’ve already posted about the Kenai and Chugach mountains, and the Wrangell and Saint Elias chains. Our next stop was the Alaska range, which forms a 600-mile-long arch north of all these. The tallest…
August 13 – 16, 2022. After McCarthy and Wrangell-St Elias, we drove to Valdez. Like us, you may be most familiar with the name Valdez from the oil spill in Alaska. In 1989 a supertanker, the Exxon Valdez, left the…
August 11 & 12. After watching the surfers on the Bore tide it was time to leave the Anchorage area again and head to new adventures. We had two destinations in mind that were roughly in the same direction, Valdez…
