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O Canada!
Our road trip continues… we left the stark beauty of Utah behind for the big sky country of Montana (we also drove through Idaho and saw just enough to make me think it would a grand place to come back and visit). It never ceases to amaze me how the United States has such diverse…
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Me and you and a dog named, well, not Boo
We’ve been on the road for two days now and are officially leaving the crazy hot part of the trip behind us. We spent last night in St. George, UT, a very nice place right on the border of Utah and Arizona. It was 108 when we arrived around 6pm and by 9pm had cooled…
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The road goes ever on
We’re hitting the road again this summer – last summer’s road was so much fun we’ve decided to embrace the adventure again! Last summer we drove north through Yellowstone then east to Chicago for the July 4 holiday and drove home via Route 66. Our mistake was that we had to be in Chicago by…
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Jumpstart
How has it been 10 months since we have written anything for this blog?! Somewhere along the way I ran out of gas and general oomph. I guess it was a combination of work stress and uncertainty, the world gone (IMHO) slightly crazy and just a general angsty feeling of “what the hell.” I still…
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Home again
Post the Inside Passage cruise, we stopped in Sitka for a day and a half before heading to Talkeetna. Sitka turned out to be (in my opinion) the jewel of the Inside Passage. It’s a lovely little town (population of around 9,000 which makes it the fourth largest city in Alaska) – very walkable with…
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End of the journey
Days 6-9 Where We Wrap Up the Journey and get to Channel Moby Dick: We spent Day 6 in Juneau where we were driven out to the Mendenhall Glacier and got to hike around the trail there. The glacier is amazing, of course, but more amazing is how fast it is retreating. Climate change, whether…
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