On This Day
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While flightseeing is an excellent way to experience many of these remote landscapes, for the purposes of completing my quest, I wanted to set foot within each protected unit—and yes, including both the park and preserve sections if it was a combined national park unit. ↩︎
Liberty Square Archway and the Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan - OTD during last year’s 100-day adventure.
Watching the Duel in the Desert at some ungodly hour while sick in bed in Taiwan - OTD during last year’s 100-day adventure.
I looked back in my photo library to post today’s OTD photo from our 100-day adventure last year, only to discover that I took exactly zero photos. I was quite sick and didn’t leave the hotel room. We’ll see if that holds for tomorrow’s post, too. It was a rough few days.
Taipei - OTD during our 100-day adventure.
Old meets new - OTD during last year’s 100 day adventure.
Snowy Seoul, OTD during last year’s 100 Day Adventure.
South Korea - OTD during last year’s 100 Day Adventure.
I’m going to start a little “On This Day” photo challenge to repost one photo per day from last year’s big 100 Day Adventure around the world. Seems like a fun way to look back!
12 photos of bush plane landings in remote Alaskan parks and preserves
We’ve visited some rather remote parks and preserves in Alaska to complete my Treasured Places quest, many of which required chartering a bush flight and consulting with maps and the pilot to figure out where we might be able to land1. Sometimes that’s on a lake, sometimes on a beach, sometimes it’s a gravely flat spot…but it’s nearly always a unique experience.
Here are a dozen such landings.
Misty Fjords National Monument
Aniakchak National Monument
Gates of the Arctic National Park
Admiralty Island National Monument
Alagnak Wild River
Katmai National Park
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
(And yes, those are indeed grizzly bear prints on the right side of the beach)
Cape Krusenstern National Monument
Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve
Denali National Preserve
Noatak National Preserve
Kobuk Valley National Park
Soft evening light, from a night paddle #OTD in 2022. These shots feel like a painting to me.
I heard it through the Grapevine…
#OTD 2018
Layers #OTD 2018
Spiky desertlands. #OTD 2018
Reflections from #OTD 2018
Snake River #OTD in 2018.
Somehow I managed to finish #Blaugust2025 already! 31 posts this month. Many of which were “On This Day” photo posts from previous years.
Our weekend trip to central Nebraska
A weekend trip to Grand Island, Nebraska, to explore the Sand Hills region and visit attractions like Carhenge, with the possibility of “tanking” a local river.
Aug 17 OTD for #Blaugust2025: Conwy, Myvatn, and…Cabinetlandia?
On August 17th of various years, memorable visits included a castle in Wales, geothermal springs in Iceland, a place called Cabinetlandia, a brewery in Arizona, and the Pacific Coast Highway.
Aug 16 OTD for #Blaugust2025: Icelandic waterfalls, Isle of Man, Agua Fria ruins
Various adventures on August 16 in different years included visits to Iceland’s Dettifoss waterfall, exploring the Isle of Man, and hiking at Agua Fria National Monument.