We are doing the last part of the west coast portion of our journey before heading east and home to Virginia. This post covers our 5 days in the last major city for us to visit: San Diego, California as our 6-month adventure continues. Day 1: Joshua Tree Area to San Diego (day 148 of the overall trip) San Diego We have decided to wind up the west coast portion of our 6-month adventure with [...]
After months in Alaska, we decided that we wanted to go where we know its going to be warm and not rain, so we are head off into the deserts of Nevada and California. This post Starts with us leaving Reno Nevada and covers our time in Tonopah Nevada, Death Valley National Park and Twentynine Palms California as our 6-month adventure continues. Day 1: Reno to Tonopah (day 141 of the overall trip) Reno to [...]
Our 6-month adventure continues as we travel south through Northern California. Day 1: The Transition to the Pacific Coast in Oregon (day 133 of the overall trip) We don't have far to travel today, but we want to take the scenic back country byway. We are heading north to the southern part of the Oregon Coast to a little town named Gold Beach. We head out of Mt Shasta on I-5 and while we typically don't [...]
Our 6-month adventure continues as we travel south through Washington, Oregon and Parts of Northern California. Volcanoes line the coast from Washington down through Northern California, some of which have recently erupted such as St Helens and Lassen. This post will cover the initial part of our way home out of Alaska this fall following much of the Volcanic Legacy Byway. It includes a number of State and National Parks dedicated to the volcanic activity in [...]
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 [...]
