Adventures including visit(s) to National Park Site(s)
And a Polar Bear Plunge But first, Friday getting from Kennecott to Fairbanks We left Kennicott early Friday, for our flight back over the Wrangell Mountains…a little cloudier than Wednesday, but still gorgeous. After a visit to the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park Visitor Center in Copper Center, a little hike, Read more
The journey and the destination Wednesday we took off about 8:45 and headed up the Glenn Highway to Glennallen in the Motorcoach. Nice! It even has a coffee station! First stop was sundries shopping at Fred Myer in Palmer (hilarious). ~90 minutes later we took a break at the Matanuska Read more
And what a way to kick it off! After meeting our fellow travelers and tour guides at a Meet & Greet Dinner at Hotel Captain Cook (with views of the Cook Inlet and Chugach Mountains, ditto for our room), we shuffled off to prepare for an early start the next Read more
And…a Check Engine Light! Camped just 2 nights in Bakersfield before driving north on 99 to Visalia, where we spent 8 nights. That is 3 more days than originally planned, due to that Check Engine Light on Friday afternoon. At least it didn’t happen on a long drive, or towing, Read more
More Ancient Dwellings & Historic State Parks We camped a bit south of Sedona, Arizona in Camp Verde, to be close to our intended National Park visits. We planned extra days, as we thought we would also visit Sedona and the Red Rocks Area of Arizona. We did make it Read more
And more Cold and Snow! Who knew there was a Volcanic Field in northern Arizona, covering 1,800 square miles, containing 600 volcanoes? Not us! The San Francisco Volcanic Field is an area of volcanoes north of Flagstaff, on the southern boundary of the Colorado Plateau. The highest peak in the field is Humphreys Peak, Arizona’s highest, at Read more
Stunning vistas, multi-colored crystals, an old Trading Post OH! And let’s not forget Route 66 and Dinosaur Fossils! That’s what we experienced here in Holbrook, Arizona. That, and hunkering down, staying an extra day (5 nights instead of 4), waiting for I-40 west to Flagstaff to open after the snow Read more
Camping at another Texas State Park Texas may be almost 96% privately owned (an anomoly for the US), but the % we’ve seen in state parks (not to mention the 1.7% in National Parks) is very nice, including this campground in Davis Mountains State Park. There was no cell service Read more
In Big Bend National Park (#60-Revisit) One of our favorite National Parks, so far (top 5?), a place in Far West Texas where night skies are dark as coal and rivers carve temple-like canyons in ancient limestone. Here, at the end of the road, hundreds of bird species take refuge Read more
Two stops along the Mexican border… …with a few Border Control Checkpoints and wide fluctuations in temperatures. First stop, Laredo, where it was ~90, the day we arrived, but didn’t break 50 the 2 days we were there. Next stop, Del Rio, where it started warming up and even broke Read more