After 34.6 kilometers/21.5 miles of darkness and ear popping through the Lötschberg Base Tunnel – which, when it was originally completed, was the longest railway tunnel in the world – […]
Tag: Hiking
Gornergrat and the Matterhorn
The Gornergrat Bahn is Europe’s highest open air railway, stretching 9.3 kilometers/5.7 miles from the resort town of Zermatt at 1605 meters/5266 feet above sea level to its terminus at […]
Innsbruck and the Austrian Alps
As we were walking out of the train station in central Innsbruck the first thing I saw was a couple a little younger than Lisa and I exiting the station […]
Bohinj and Bled
The country of Slovenia is only about the size of the state of Massachusetts, so our base in Ljubljana provided an excellent launching point from which to explore some of […]
Plitvice Lakes National Park
There are three things one cannot miss when walking around Split: advertisements for boat tours to the Blue Cave, billboards for day trips to Krka National Park, and photos of […]
Bassano del Grappa and the Dolomites
Bassano del Grappa and Surrounds Bassano del Grappa is one of the walled cities originally built by the Venetians and afforded us an excellent base for a week to explore […]
Cinque Terre
To explore Italy’s famous Cinque Terre – literally translated as “five lands” – we based ourselves in the quaint oceanside enclave of Riva Trigoso on the Italian Riviera. Our little […]
Nice and the French Riviera
Our trip from Paris to Nice was the first of what will be many European train journeys, the roughly six hour adventure took us hurtling across central France on one […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]