Adventures including visit(s) to National Park Site(s)
On the Admiralty Dream We arrived in Juneau and got to our hotel after 10:00 pm on Friday. Thankfully the Welcome Breakfast on Saturuday (for the next phase of our John Hall’s Alaska Tour) was late enough, we could get a decent nights sleep. Juneau Saturday After breakfast, we had Read more
Wrapping up our Alaska Land Tour Over the last 3 days we drove back through Anchorage to Seward (with stops), took an 8.5-hour Cruise in Kenai Fjords National Park, drove back to Anchorage (with stops), said Goodbye to 9 of 25 of our group, and flew to Juneau with the Read more
And, no, we did not see The Mountain Apparently, only ~30% of visitors to Denali National Park actually see The Mountain. We were not among them. On top of that, Mark got a bad, bad cold (flu?) and went to bed Sunday before dinner and spent Monday mostly sleeping. Anyway… Read more
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