Back to School
After a summer living in the camper, it was nice to come home and have a couple weeks of staycation. Then, it got a bit boring. Kids were fiesty and picking on each other. We needed to get things rolling with school.
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No Ticks = Success!
After rolling the two kids and the camper all the way the Alaska and back, we couldn’t just stop and go home to the heat in Arizona. Instead, we continued to Pennsylvania to visit family and give the kids an opportunity to attend summer camp via Penn State University’s Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center. Zoe went […]
Read MoreBut, what about the crowds?
Yes. Yellowstone is pretty crowded in the summer, but with a bit of luck and some open minded freedom from expectations, we had a wonderful time. Our trip was full of adventurous campsite-seeking evenings, fellow boondocking crazy’s, lots of thermal features, and one of the best backpacking trips we’ve ever had.
Read MoreSucked In
East of Calgary the prairie expands out to the horizon, and if you head out there, after about two hours the grassland drops off to expose the badlands that lie beneath. Dinosaur Provincial Park resides out there and is a buggy infestation. Well. Wait. It’s also really neat; along the bottomland a stream feeds a […]
Read MoreThe good, the bad, and the boring
The Canadian Rockies have been looming on our horizon for a while, and it takes at LONG while to get there. Where the the northern boundary lies is vague. The general range continues pretty far north with expanses of rolling forested hills spreading the rocky peaks further apart the farther you go.
Read MoreTop o’ the world to you
By the time we got to Fairbanks this whole camper was ready for a break. We had a truly wonderful visit with some dear friends who showed us around town, let me do laundry, and treated us to the feeling of home again. I can’t express how wonderful it is to be able to see […]
Read MoreThe sunny Yukon
There was a rough relic sign I saw somewhere in the hamlet (village? collective?) of Carcross that called the area “The Switzerland of North America” and it could be true if we are talking topography only. Get some new trains up here, ski resorts, cows with bells, and, uh, people, and it could be like […]
Read MoreRide the mountain rails
When Avi was little he loved a Canadian show called Mighy Machines; it features short documentaries about large equipment for kids. There are episodes about recyling, lumber, farms, street cleaning, etc. We all find them interesting, but one of Avi’s favorites has always been the episode called “Ride the Mountain Rails” about the trains that […]
Read MoreIt’s cool here
It took a while to see the appeal of Juneau, and I’m pretty sure the weather as to blame. It is cold here. And rainy. But otherwise it’s really pretty. The huge mountains that lock the town against the coast are covered with trees and waterfalls and glaciers. Along the open spaces are tons of […]
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