Every year we start discussing early in the year, "Where should we go at the end of the year?" And every year it seems we end up putting off not only the planning but even choosing where to go until relatively late. This year we actually decided a month ago, in mid November. We're going to PanamaYes, we'll see the Panama Canal. From a young age my ( Read more... )

I've been feeling itchy to get out. Much to the contrary of the concept of homesickness I wrote about a few days ago- I don't get homesick on my travels- I feel down and frustrated if I don't get out often enough. Our last trip out of the area was at the end of June, hiking Angel Falls and Fresno Dome in the Sierra Nevada. That was almost a month ( Read more... )

We had a few friends over at our house this past Friday. Part of the evening's discussion was about the recent three-month trip overseas that one friend, "Addie", took with his wife. They spent time in a few different countries and a month on a cruise in the Antarctic ( Read more... )

It's time to go back to Alaska. Topically, that is. It feels like my trip there was two months ago even though it was literally just two weeks ago. (The last day of my trip was Wednesday, June 17.)  One thing I've been meaning to write about since even before I embarked on the trip is a retrospective on how I planned it: How I finally got to Alaska ( Read more... )

It's been kind of a busy couple months for blogging. I say kind of because while I've posted above my average for April and May there's a lot of stuff I didn't write (yet) because I didn't have time or energy (or both). Let me share a chart since the last time I posted one of those was 3 months ago.


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Going into this past weekend, Memorial Day weekend, I was disappointed that we hadn't planned travel anywhere. As I noted Friday night, it was a combination of factors. We were tired from previous trips, we didn't get around to trying to plan anything until late, and by then prices and availability for the destinations we were considering were poor ( Read more... )

Los Cabos Travelog #0
At home - Fri, 4 May 2024, 10:00pmThis evening Hawk and I have been packing for our next adventure trip. I know, I'm not even done posting blogs from our New Zealand trip- I've got probably 15 journal entries still to go!- and here were are getting ready to head out again. And no, it's not Alaska. Though I wrote earlier today ( Read more... )

For years now I've had a bucket list goal of visiting all the states in the US. After notching Alabama, number 49 out of 51 in 2016, I remained stuck at 49/51 for several years. (I'm using 51 because I'm counting Washington, D.C. in addition to the well-known count of 50 states in the US.) Last year I reached 50/51 by visiting Louisiana. That left ( Read more... )

One thing I remember well from last year is how April and May seemed to go by in a blur. ...Okay, that reads like a self contradiction. What I mean is that I had so much fun travel in April and May last year that everything else, especially working, seems like a blur. Hey, it's kind a nice thing to think back on a time and wonder, "Wow, what did I ( Read more... )

Yesterday we spent a lot of time planning our upcoming trip to New Zealand. It took longer than I thought, and still we weren't done. Sometimes, though, a goal seems so far away for so long you don't realize how close you're getting. I know that's true when hiking a mountain. Like at Flag Hill the weekend before last, the summit towers above and ( Read more... )