Denali & Richardson Highway Regions – Our 6-Month Alaska Adventure Part 9

Our 6-month adventure continues as we leave the Denali National Park Area and head across the central wilderness section of Alaska. We've been fortunate to have longer stays over the past few posts, but now it is time to explore the very remote central region of Alaska.  We will be in this region for 10 days with 4 different lodgings.  This central region is purported to include some of the finest scenery in all of Alaska. [...]

By |2023-05-26T15:45:54-05:00July 31, 2022|Alaska, USA Travel|0 Comments
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Denali National Park – Our 6-Month Alaska Adventure Part 8

Our 6-month adventure continues as we leave northern Alaska and begin to meander south. Having just gotten back from our 3-day trip to the Arctic Ocean, we will be in Fairbanks for 2 more days.  This is unusual for us in terms of how we normally plan trips.  We hit several "re-plan portions of the trip" that aren't worth explaining - and that meant a 2 day hole to fill late in the plan.  We're headed [...]

By |2022-08-09T12:59:29-05:00July 28, 2022|Alaska, USA Travel|5 Comments
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Fairbanks to the Arctic Ocean – Our 6-month Alaska Adventure Part 7

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 [...]

By |2022-08-09T13:32:26-05:00July 18, 2022|Alaska, USA Travel|0 Comments
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Fairbanks Alaska – Three Weeks of Fun in the Land of 24/7 Sun

Overview This is part 6 of our 6-month journey to Alaska and back. With sunlight available 24/7 here this time of year and the temperatures running in the upper 70's and 80's there is just an unending list of opportunities for fun and adventure. Day 1 - Fairbanks and the Midnight Sun Festival (day 41 of the overall trip) Normally after several days in a row of transitioning from here to there with one and [...]

By |2023-05-24T08:56:24-05:00July 7, 2022|Alaska, USA Travel|0 Comments
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Haines to Fairbanks Alaska – Our 6 Month Alaska Adventure Part 5

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 [...]

By |2022-08-09T13:19:01-05:00June 26, 2022|Alaska, USA Travel, Yukon|2 Comments
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The Alaska Ferry Inner Passage to Haines and Skagway- Our 6-month Alaska Road Trip Part 4

Overview Our 6-month adventure continues with our journey from Juneau to Haines and Skagway, the end of our time in the area known as the inside passage of Alaska. This post covers the Alaska Ferry trip from Juneau to Haines, the ferry to/from Skagway and time spent in both communities. DAY 1 - Transitioning from Juneau to Skagway (day 33 of the overall trip) Ferry From Juneau Alaska to Haines Alaska We need to be [...]

By |2022-06-26T16:30:58-05:00June 21, 2022|Alaska, USA Travel|0 Comments
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The Alaska Ferry Inner Passage to Juneau – Our 6-month Alaska Road Trip Part 3

  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 [...]

By |2023-08-03T15:17:19-05:00June 14, 2022|Alaska, USA Travel|10 Comments
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Our 6 Month Key West to Deadhorse Alaska Road Trip Part 2

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 [...]

By |2023-08-03T15:11:57-05:00June 3, 2022|Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, MIssouri, Montana, North Dakota, Road Trips, USA Travel, Washington|0 Comments
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Our 6 Month Key West to Deadhorse Alaska Road Trip Part 1

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 [...]

By |2022-07-19T13:49:02-05:00May 25, 2022|Florida, South Carolina, USA Travel|3 Comments
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A Whirlwind 18 Day Wisconsin Road Trip

Overview Prep work and planning for our upcoming Alaska Adventure is finally done and we now have time to start blogging again on some of our past adventures. This Wisconsin trip we did a few years ago is one of our all-time favorites. We did such a variety of activities and we came away feeling we only touched the surface and will need to go back and fill in some of the gaps in the [...]

By |2023-05-26T09:54:58-05:00April 7, 2022|Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, Road Trips, USA Travel, Wisconsin|0 Comments
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