The especially little part of the Little Colorado River. OTD in 2020
Choosing where to go when you can go anywhere: how we’ve been thinking about our upcoming 100 day trip. #blaugust2024
I visited an unexpected memorial OTD in 2008—that you’d expect in Washington DC, not along the Indiana/Illinois border.
OTD in 2019, we landed a bush plane in between 3 active wildfires in the remote Coal Creek area of Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve in eastern Alaska. I really need to blog about this whole episode—one of my fav adventure stories—but a smoky photo of the Yukon River will have to do for today.
Blaugust 2024
I’m participating in Blaugust 2024, though I’m not intending to post every day. But it’s always fun to have a bit of extra motivation to hit the publish button.
I’ll collect all the relevant posts here, as I’ll likely post on more than one site.
4/31
Bumpass Hell, a hydrothermal area in Lassen Volcanic National Park, might just have the very best place name in the national parks system. Here’s a short video from our last visit, OTD in 2022.
A few shots of Denali, “The Great One,” from our visit OTD six years ago. We were very fortunate to have clear views nearly the entire day.
I wrote about my favorite breweries and taprooms in Arizona, an easy way to share some suggestions for visiting friends. #100DaystoOffload
We visited the Tule Lake Segregation Center OTD in 2022, one of the WWII Japanese Internment Camps. A few weeks ago while camping near Flagstaff, we visited the remains of Camp Leupp on the Navajo Res, which was a temporary holding camp for Manzanar “riot” internees being transferred to Tule Lake.
A few views from the Kenai Peninsula, on this day in 2018.
In-flight entertainment.
(On This Day in 2018)
Home after three days of camping with a number of friends. We didn’t do too much but hang out at camp, save an afternoon jaunt into town for lunch and some local breweries.
On This Day in 2007 we visited the birthplace of George Washington Carver, and were visited by this checkerboard-eyed butterfly during our walk there.
A few shots from our boat tour in Aialik Bay in Kenai Fjords National Park, OTD in 2018.
One of the highlights of our visit to Halifax was the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, housed in the same dock building that served as the port of entry for immigrants. I was surprised at many of the similarities between the histories of immigration in Canada and the United States.
OTD in 2018, I hiked to Exit Glacier, my first experience with a glacier. It’s iconic for the signs showing the previous extent of the glacier in various years, clearly demonstrating how quickly the ice has receded.
I’ve been to every national park unit in the US, and this remains my most favorite park sign anywhere. It’s located on the back side of the entrance sign for the Exit Glacier area of Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska.
One of my favorite scenic drives is Alaska Route 1 down the Turnagain Arm. Here’s a shot from my first visit there, back in 2018.
I was finally able to mark Stonehenge off my list #OnThisDay seven years ago when I passed thru suburban Utah.
