Category: Travel
Written by Elissa Ebersold on July 26, 2019
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.
Written by Elissa Ebersold on July 22, 2019
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.
Written by Elissa Ebersold on July 16, 2019
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!
Written by Elissa Ebersold on August 15, 2018
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
Written by Elissa Ebersold on August 12, 2018
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,
Written by Elissa Ebersold on August 10, 2018
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.
Written by Elissa Ebersold on November 25, 2015
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
Written by Elissa Ebersold on November 24, 2015
LDN
architecture . doctor who . England . Jack the Ripper . London . sherlock holmes . sunset . Thames . tower . Travel . WestminsterHello readers (if any of you still exist), I’d like to preface my London thoughts with the following: Lily Allen once sang about London being all nice on the outside, but under the surface “you can see it’s all lies.” As a London native, I’m sure she’s right. But I think what she says goes
Written by Elissa Ebersold on October 1, 2015
Iceland: The Last, England: The First
England . Iceland . London . Travel . United KingdomHello readers, Oh boy has it been a few busy days. As I stated in my last entry (or at least, I think I stated) at the time of posting, our final day in Iceland had not yet come to an end. 22 September 2015 It began like the others: cloudy, rainy, and with a
Written by Elissa Ebersold on September 22, 2015
Iceland Round 2: The Mountain Is A Lie
geology . Iceland . mountains . Thoughts . Travel . viking . volcano . waterfallsHello readers (if any of you still exist), Happy planes Sorry in advance. I don’t have a ton of pictures to include in my journal, just what has essentially been uploaded to Facebook….As always, click on the photos to see them larger. Anyway, what a fun couple of days it has been. On Friday the