Day 4: Haines, Alaska
September 19, 2013, Category: Alaska, Travel
The bay is surrounded by mountains that are covered in trees and topped with clouds, like they tried to pass through but got tangled in the trees and are stuck in place. I can see wisps of white in and around the tree branches and it does seem that the trees are holding them back. This feels like Alaska. Even the color of the water has changed to an icy blue.
Read MoreDay 3: Still on the Alaska Ferry
September 18, 2013, Category: Alaska, Travel
It’s late, I’m in my tent now trying to sleep and listening to the rain. Tomorrow we start riding…and camping. I’m really nervous about the rain. I don’t know what the next three weeks will be like. I’m afraid we are going to get very wet and very cold.
Read MoreDay 2: Riding the Alaska Ferry
September 17, 2013, Category: Alaska, Travel
The mountains are black shadows that disappear into clouds. It’s dark and quiet except for the churning engine. Pitch black and we keep pushing up through the dark, narrow canyon. There are lighted buoys in the still water and the captain navigates the boat through the middle of them. Everyone is asleep on the deck chairs around me under the heated lamps of the Solarium. It is very peaceful. I’m on a boat going to Alaska. Crazy Awesome. Read on for more…
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Alaska on Motorcycles
September 12, 2013, Category: Alaska, Travel
My buddy, Mike, and I took our motorcycles and traveled 6,800 miles on a crazy Alaska Adventure. We saw over 30 bears, 10 or so whales, a handful of sea lions, puffins, porpoise, 3 moose, and 3 caribou. We watched (and heard the thunder of) several tons of ice crash into the ocean off a 600 foot high glacier. We stood on ice 4,000 feet thick at 8,000 feet on the tallest mountain in North America. We rode and camped in sun, rain, heavy fog, wind, rain, and more rain. We explored pavement, dirt, rocks, gravel, and mud as slick as ice. It’s all here for you to read about.
Read MoreDay 14: Last Day in Greece
November 14, 2010, Category: Greece, Travel
If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning. Our hotel has been noisy, every single night. People talking, running up and down the stairs, doors opening and closing…all night long. But when somebody started banging on our door in the middle of the night last night, it […]
Read MoreDay 13: Ancient Athens
October 30, 2010, Category: Greece, Travel
If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning. For the first time on our trip, Greece welcomed us to a new day with cloudy skies. We walked to the corner in a light drizzle and dropped below street level to catch the metro. The red-line carried […]
Read MoreDay 12: Mycanae and Athens
October 24, 2010, Category: Greece, Travel
If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning. We said goodbye to our cute little room in Nafplio and departed for Athens. It isn’t a long drive, only a couple of hours if you drive straight through. We, of course, did not drive straight through. When I […]
Read MoreDay 11: Nafplio Fortress and Epidaurus
October 22, 2010, Category: Greece, Travel
If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning. In the early 1800’s, the port town of Nafplio was chosen to be the first capital of modern Greece. A major reason was the Palamidi, a baroque fortress (said to be the most well preserved in all Europe) that […]
Read MoreDay 10: Monemvassia, Naplio
October 20, 2010, Category: Greece, Travel
If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning I didn’t expect we would spend so much time driving in a country smaller than the state of Utah. Today we drove from Kardamyli, to Monemvassia, to Nafplio. I tried to remember our route and plug it in to […]
Read MoreDay 9: The Mani Peninsula
October 17, 2010, Category: Greece, Travel
If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning … Today was devoted to exploring the Mani Peninsula. It’s rugged landscape and brutal mountain ranges kept it inaccessible for thousands of years. It was these very traits that brought refugees, desperate to escape the invading Ottomans, to settle […]
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