Tag: Wildlife
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 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…
July 12 & August 13 – 18, 2024. When we finally left Medellín, we had just over two weeks before our three months in Colombia would come to an end. We wanted to see a little more of the country…
We landed in the morning and walked down the plane’s stairs into the blazing sunlight. It had been a long flight. Just 24 hours previously, we were washing the sheets and cleaning the house of our last house-sit in Colorado….
January 5 – 10, 2023. When we left San Miguel de Allende we had one more stop in the state of Guanajuato, the ruins of a pre-Hispanic settlement called La Cañada de la Virgin. Of all of the attractions in…
December 7 – 17, 2022. When you tell people you are going to Mexico you get all kinds of reactions. Our favorite is “How exciting!” But there are also those whose first thought is to give you warning, “Be careful,”…
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…
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…
