Fairbanks is the largest city in the Alaskan Interior and marked the most northerly point of our Alaskan journey: 119 miles/192 kilometers from the Arctic Circle. Fairbanks probably has the […]
Month: June 2021
Fairbanks
We arrived in Fairbanks on Monday, June 28 and pulled into a RV park on the Chena River. It was a beautiful river with a sandy beach. When we were […]
The Haines and Alaska Highways
We knew it was going to be a long day of driving to get through Canada in one hit from Haines to mainland Alaska. During non-COVID times we’d probably have […]
Haines
It was an early start for us out of Juneau: check in at the Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) terminal was 6AM for our departure to Haines at 8AM. It […]
Juneau
Juneau is the capital city of the state of Alaska and has the honor of being the second-largest city in the United States of America by area. Juneau was named […]
Slugs, Fish and a Glacier
We’re in Sitka now and our campground is called Starrigavan Campground. We got a really cool camp sight. Lilia asked me if I wanted to build fairy houses with her. […]
Sitka
Fairytale beautiful. That’s how Lisa aptly described the quaint fishing enclave of Sitka, located on the western edge of remote Baranof Island in Southeast Alaska. If you love the outdoors, […]
Sitka Here We Come!
I woke up on the ferry Sunday morning and knew we were getting off in Sitka that day! We docked at 9AM and it felt so good to walk on […]
Fish Happens
Most tourists travel to Sitka to fish. Fishing was definitely on my list of things to do. If you do a web search for “Sitka fishing charter” Google will return […]
The Inside Passage
I’d heard of Juneau before. It’s the capital of Alaska. What I did not know until a couple of months ago is that Juneau – and the entire southeastern portion […]
The Inside Passage
We stayed on the ferry for three days. It was a cool experience to be on the ferry. The only sea life I saw was porpoises. We saw a lot […]
Bellingham
The drive from Leavenworth to Bellingham was very picturesque, the towering peaks of the Cascades rearing up alongside the highway as we crossed over to the coastal side of the […]