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 …
Below are a few photos from our recent visit to Kenai Fjords NP and Preserve. As you will see, there was plenty of wildlife and stunning mountain-rimmed fjords, and I took a four-mile hike up to an expansive icefield and glacier. If you click on a photo, you can see a larger version of it. …
The second of six national parks we’re visiting on this year’s trip to Alaska, Kenai Fjords National Park is very similar to our first park [Glacier Bay NP] in that to visit and take in the park you must spend time in the bays of the Gulf of Alaska. Kenai Fjords was established as a national monument in 1978, then made …
Seward, Alaska, is another great town in the Kenai Peninsula. It’s home to the Visitor Center for Kenai Fjords National Park which is why we routed here, but this is a cool little coastal town (pop: 3,000) to visit even without national park activities. We spent three nice nights here — July 17-19 (yes, I’m behind with …
When I was in Alaska with my nephew Kyle nine years ago, I vowed to come back someday and go to Homer. Don’t ask me why… I hadn’t known anything about this little town at the time, nor did I know what drew me to it. All I knew was that I had to visit Homer. So …
Forty tons. Fifty feet in length. It is one to the largest living beings on Earth. On two different occasions we cruised in icy, cold waters and watched these beautiful animals surface, blow, and then hunch their backs and dive into the depths of Alaskan waters. If we were lucky, we caught them as they …
We’ve actually been here for nearly a week, but as we figured, we would be challenged with Internet connectivity in some of our more remote locations. Well, we started out in one such place — Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve — but boy! were there other things to do besides write posts and work …
Olympic National Park is one of the last unspoiled and untamed places in the United States. Its landscape of rugged peaks, steep cliffs, dense forests, and wild rivers made it difficult to navigate and settle back when the European Americans were first on the scene here in the late 1800s, although Native American hunter-gatherer tribes had lived …
We’ve been hanging out here in Florida for a while now – in fact, it was a month ago that we pulled into this state. At the suggestion of someone we met way back in August up in Pennsylvania, we chose to stay in the Tamiami Village RV Park in Ft. Myers for a few days …
Staying warm in Florida, and staying a little while longer…. Read More »
