Day 6 and 7: Oh, thank GOD! I woke up and heard…nothing. It wasn’t raining and it meant that I had at least a slim chance of getting through the day without being completely soaked. Even better, the strategy of putting the damp hiking pants in the cover of my sleeping mat paid off. They…
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My Alaskan Road Trip Summer 2022
Glaciers, Whales, Otters, Bears and Mild Hypothermia, part 3
Part 1: Days 1-3, Part 2: Day 4 Day 5: And I thought day 3 was rainy… Except for the exceptions (the moment of hypothermia followed by mild emotional breakdown), day 4 was pretty great. It was a long day, but the weather had been good and we only had soft rain on occasion during…
Glaciers, Whales, Otters, Bears and Mild Hypothermia, part 2
*See part 1 for days 1-3 of this kayak adventure… Day 4: I woke up for what felt like the 50th time with my arms hurting and realized it was time to get up. Well, my bladder told me I was getting up in the next 5 minutes or it was going to pee on…
Glaciers, Whales, Otters, Bears, and Mild Hypothermia: part 1
Oh god…what day is it? When was my last post? I actually had to check! Last time I was in Haines waiting to get on the ferry to Juneau. That was two weeks ago, a decade ago in Alaska time. **Pictures are at the end this time. I am dying to tell you all about…
A Lifetime of Moments in a Few Days
This entire trip, it seems like each day feels like a week and each week feels like months. I mean this in the best way possible. Not that time is dragging by, but that so much is being experienced that it can’t all possibly be in just a day. This isn’t simply a matter of…
Santa!! Then Fairbanks, Denali and Anchorage.
Let me start with a couple of videos to show you how I spend the majority of my days… My last post was from Tok, Alaska and from there I headed to Fairbanks to pick Bastien up at the airport. On the way I stopped at North Pole, Alaska to visit Santa and his reindeer….
On Top of the World! (Top of the World Highway)
Yesterday I did the drive I had been nervous about ever since I planned this trip. At Whitehorse you have to decide whether to stay on the official Alcan or head north on the Klondike highway through Dawson City. Seeing Dawson City was a priority, but it also meant either driving 6 hours back to…
Dawson City?
I had a mixed experience today… It started great. I deeply enjoyed wandering the dirt streets with wooden sidewalks and seeing a mix of the truly original buildings and those that are original but restored. The truly original buildings tend to be lopsided because they were built directly on the permafrost, this leads to a…
Dawson City!
I am so excited I feel as if I will burst with it. I made it! What’s funny is that the gold rush doesn’t interest me all that much, maybe it’s a bit of been there, done that being from California. Even so, just being here fills me with excitement. I haven’t really seen much…
Just when you think it can’t possibly get better…
Have you ever ridden a roller coaster where you have the first big thrill section and think, “Wow! That was awesome!” And you just assume that the ride is going to be over because that was so great, and then you realize, “Wait, there’s more?” And the ride just keeps going and going. That’s how…