Bonjour! My favorite parts of Paris were the boulangeries and gelato stores. I found a bar called Player One and it was a gameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeing place and I got to play […]
Month: July 2021
Destination: Paris
When we got off the plane in the Paris airport we took the tram to downtown Rue Saint-Denis and went to the apartment we booked. Rue Saint-Denis was a cute […]
Paris
As our Air France flight disembarked from San Francisco I had to pinch myself a little: we were finally off to Europe! In spite of COVID and a significant portion […]
The Long Road Through Canada
I’ve crossed a lot of country borders in my years. Generally the occasions have been reasonably uneventful (except for that one time I wasn’t allowed to board a US-bound plane […]
The Glenn Highway and Tok Cutoff
Following another round of COVID tests in Anchorage on our way north from The Kenai Peninsula, we officially marked the beginning of our very long drive back to California to […]
Breweries of Alaska
In honor of my map of Australia’s best bakeries – the creation of which took many thousands of calories – we’ve decided to create a sister map of Alaska’s best […]
The Kenai Peninsula
Our decision to spend the Independence Day long weekend in Anchorage had us thanking our lucky stars again as we motored south out of the city towards the Kenai Peninsula. […]
Independence Day in Anchorage
We made a conscious choice to spend the Independence Day long weekend in Anchorage, figuring that all the locals would head out of the city to enjoy the outdoors for […]
Talkeetna and Surrounds
On our way south from Denali National Park we stopped off for a hike in the lesser-known Denali State Park alongside the Parks Highway. It had rained earlier in the […]
Denali National Park
Our first view of Denali came from more than 50 miles away as we were traveling south on the Parks Highway near Nenana from Fairbanks. Even though Denali is nowhere […]