Hey, it’s good to be back home again.Sometimes this old farm feels like a long lost friend.Yes, and hey, it’s good to be back home again. John Denverrefrain from “Back Home Again November 3, 2016: The Odyssey is finished, and Odysseus has returned to Ithaca. This was not the 10-year journey that Homer wrote of …
We struggled to find a lot of information on visiting American Samoa, so in an effort to help other people who also plan to make the journey to this remote place, we are happy to share some travel logistics here. Flights — Flights to American Samoa are limited, departing the U.S. only a couple of …
If we didn’t save the best for last, we certainly saved one of the best for last! Nearly two-and-a-half years after we began our journey to visit all of the national parks, we have finally visited our last one — The National Park of American Samoa. This was our last park primarily because it was …
Disclaimer on the AAA website: *While Alaska Alpine Adventures endeavors to follow our itineraries as written, odds are in fact slim that you actually will. The expeditionary factors at play quite often compel our guides to deviate from the written itinerary. Guide considerations could include weather conditions, group preference, individual ability, specific safety considerations, or …
Unplanned Adventure in the Backcountry — a.k.a. “The Alaska Factor” Read More »
When we started planning our return visit to Alaska, we knew that in addition to visiting our final two national parks up there we also had to trek to Barrow, Alaska. Why? Because our visit to the previous “northernmost city” in Minnesota [see Northwest Angle post] had an asterisks behind it — it was only the northernmost city …
The True Northernmost Extreme Point: Barrow, Alaska Read More »
Yesterday was a milestone for us — we made it to our 50th state! As I mentioned on my Facebook post, it’s been 2 years, 1 month and 18 days of life on the road for us, and finally we tallied our 50th and last state. We’re getting very close to completing our goal of visiting …
That’s the news from Lake Wobegon,where all the women are strong,all the men are good looking,and all the children are above average. Garrison KeillorA Prairie Home Companion The memories sometimes find their way out…I am five years old lying on a sofa in the front room of my grandparents’ farm house drifting off to sleep …
Every son quotes his father, in words and in deeds. Terri Guillemets It is as Americana as apple pie, weekend football games and election cycles that never really end. At this time of year roll through almost any small town with a dirt track on a Friday or Saturday evening and you will almost certainly …
Mesa Verde National Park was established in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt as our nation’s seventh national park. It was created to preserve ancient Ancestral Pueblo culture and prehistoric architecture that dates back from A.D. 550 to A.D. 1300. As I mentioned in my last post, we have seen a lot of ancient Native American dwellings …
