Alaska, At Last
Alaska . Road Trip . TravelSaturday July 6th 2019
Oh, how nice it was to sleep in, and to not have to pack up and hurry out. The air conditioning in the hotel was a welcome luxury after spending several days in the atypical heat that had settled over the northwest. Outside the windows, Anchorage was not only baking from an unnatural heatwave, but it was also smothered in a smoky haze from wildfires raging in the surrounding areas.
Toe-tally Fun!
Road Trip . TravelTuesday July 2nd 2019
Excitement isn’t exactly the word I’d use to describe this day of travel. Nothing terribly exciting happened. There were no planned stops on the itinerary for this leg of the journey, only our day’s end destination of Fort Nelson. Well, okay, that’s not entirely true. Our only planned stop was a sign in Dawson Creek, BC, the official start of the Alaska Highway.
Watch Your Glaciers, Alaska…
Road Trip . Travel…because global warming is real and we’re coming in hot!
Driving to Alaska once is something that many people think is pretty nuts already. Doing it twice, and in less than a year, well that might just be clinically insane. (Jury’s still out on that one though).
Now, I’m actually posting this after the trip has come and gone. I guess that’s a good thing. I had absolutely no time nor energy to write a blog at the end of the day. Those “spare” minutes I had went towards driving another 100 miles, or seeing something new. But of course, it allows me to reflect on everything with the benefit of hindsight. But two weeks in a car blurs together like its been seamlessly stitched into a film reel, so it’ll take some real studying of my photos and my Google timeline to tell me when and where I was on what day. So here it goes!
Nashville
Car . Family . Family Bonding . father . Nashville . Road Trip . TennesseeIs a five day road trip with my dad worth blogging about? I guess we’ll find out. 🙂 Coming/leaving soon?
Leaving On A Jet Plane
Alaska . Albany . Family Bonding . food . glaciers . mountains . nostalgia . Road Trip . USASaturday, August 18th 2018I went to sleep early in Beaver Creek. One of us (I can’t recall who) set an alarm for the 2:00am so I could attempt some milky way photos again, while I still could. When the alarm went off, I peeked out the window to check out the clarity of the night
Mission Impossible
UncategorizedWednesday, August 15th 2018 I can’t say anything exciting or new happened, since it was another easy drive and day of rest. The calm before the storm so to speak, since tomorrow is 12 hours of driving to our next destination. Without any of the stops we’ll need to take. We slept late, and eventually
Rocky Mountain High
Alaska . Alberta . British Columbia . Canada . Family Bonding . Lake Louise . Road Trip . TravelIt’s now been three days since my last entry (although it may be more when you read this since my computer can’t hook up to the hotel wifi to post it), and three days feels like an eternity ago. Admittedly, I have to check my Google timeline to even remember where we began and where
Goodbye New York
Alaska . Brother . buffalo . Car . chicago . Great Plains . midwest . minneapolis . minnesota . ny . pizza . Road Trip . st paul . Travel . USA . wisconsinFriday, August 10th, 2018 I can’t say that anything particularly remarkable happened these first two days of travel. We left my office at about 1:30ish, making it most of the way to the main highway (I-90) before we realized that I had left my phone in my desk. PSA: When taking a cross continental trip,
Alaska Awaits
Alaska . Brother . Canada . Car . Drive . Family . Family Bonding . Great Plains . Road Trip . Travel . USAWell it has been a long couple years. I’ve even gone on an adventure since my last entry, but due to lack of time, I simply never spent the time scribing the details of my time in The Holy Land. But now I’m here for a new adventure, one unlike anything I’ve ever done before.
Caution: Sudden Gunfire
Cardiff . Cathedral . doctor who . Dover . England . London . Rugby . Shakespeare . Travel . Wales . WinchesterMonday, 28 September 2015 Our time in London had come to an end, it and was now time to go about our cross-country journey. We trained back to Gatwick to retrieve our rental car, which would later become the bane of my existence. After taking fifteen minutes to figure out the GPS, and another ten