Overview This is part 7 of our 6-month journey to Alaska and back. This post covers the incredibly fun 500-mile trip up on the Dalton Highway to the Arctic Ocean from Fairbanks and back. Nancy and I don't typically do tours and much prefer to travel by arranging our own logistics. However, we made an exception here for a number of reasons. This can be a challenging road and has a reputation for giving you [...]
Overview Our 6-month adventure continues with our journey from Haines to Fairbanks Alaska. Finally, we are going to escape being in contact with the world of cruise ship travel on the coast, head into the Alaska interior and travel up to Fairbanks. Day 1 - Transitioning from Haines to Tok (day 37 of the overall trip) Haines to the Yukon Boarder Crossing It is tough to leave the rental house in this tranquil setting [...]
Overview Our 6-month adventure continues with our journey from Bellingham north to Juneau on the Alaska Ferry. Part 1 - The trip to Key West is located here. Part 2 - Cross Country to Bellingham Washington is located here. The third part of our trip involves finally arriving in Alaska and a few days of exploring Juneau. When we leave Bellingham, we travel northward for about 38 hours between Victoria Island and Canada before [...]
In our part one post we covered the first leg of our Key West to Deadhorse Adventure which took us from our home in Virginia down to Key West and Back. The second leg of this adventure covered in this post takes us from Virginia out to Bellingham Washington where we will catch the Alaska Ferry up to Alaska. Normally, we don't travel cross country at this pace, but the wedding described in first post [...]
We are finally off and running on our six month adventure that takes us from the southernmost tip of the continental US in Key West all the way to the Artic Ocean in Alaska. This post covers the first leg of the journey which takes us down to sunny Key West and back home - where we retrieved the Brown Beast for the remainder of the journey. It was packed for Alaska sitting in the [...]
Nancy and I love long road trips and we spend a lot of time planning out the details of where we are going. To quickly launch one of our journeys and to make living on the road as hassle free as possible, we have devoted a lot of time to honing what items to pack and how to organize them. Getting these items sorted and grouped helps us to transition from location to location as [...]
Background We have always dreamed of an Alaska road trip but given its distance from our home and the geographic size of this destination, we intentionally left this off the plate until we had time to do it right. So now that we're both retired and have more flexibility, it was time and as a result, we have put a travel framework in place where we will leave in the spring and return home just [...]
Overview of the Oregon Road Trip Part Two This is part two of our 3,248-mile 13-day road trip we did in Oregon in 2013 that covers a great deal of the state and really gave us a flavor for its diversity of geography and culture the state has to offer. This post picks up in Burns Oregon and continues all the back to Portland. Part one can be found here. Oregon Road Trip Overview [...]
Overview of the Oregon Road Trip Part One. There have been times when we only had 2-3 weeks to travel. My Wife Nancy and I like to pick a state / area of North America and do what we jokingly call a "reconnaissance" trip where we spend our time moving rapidly from area to area. This gives us a good feel for what we might want to do when we come back and revisit an [...]
This is STOP 7, the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th days of our ten week cross country fall adventure in 2021! Here is a link to our previous stop in Jefferson, TX The Drive from Jefferson, TX to Fredericksburg, TX Jefferson to Fredericksburg This drive is probably the longest "jump" of the entire trip and today we will cross the 2000 mile driving mark. We purposely do a route that will take us through historic [...]
