At the risk of sounding like a broken record…I’m having a wonderful time. The disappointment over losing Africa this summer is a distant memory as I immerse myself in this trip. A couple days ago, I left Medora and made the just under 4-hour drive to Devil’s Tower, Wyoming. It wasn’t a long drive but…
Category: Van life
Robins, Grasshoppers, and Rainbows
The past few days have been simply marvelous! What did I do, you ask? Not much. That’s not entirely fair to say…because I have actually been productive and active. But it’s been so chill and relaxing that it doesn’t feel like I did anything at all. When I first arrived in Medora, on the South…
Rosie the WonderVan on the Road
We still have a few plans for future upgrades, but Rosie is already on her 3rd major road trip (in addition to shorter camping trips). Road trip #1 (summer 2021) was in a van with a bed, fridge, sink, and stove…and that’s about it. The cabinetry wasn’t in yet and I got creative with plastic…
Missile Silos, Marvelous Hikes and Midnight Elk: Our Journey to and Through Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks
I know, it’s been a minute since my last post. Boy was I in a funk that day! The past week has been pretty great, time with my husband immersed in timeless scenery is hard to beat. Since a week is alot of ground to cover and WAY too much reading…I’ll give you the highlights….
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…