Quick geography quiz:  Which is the longer drive:  Los Angeles to New York City or Los Angeles to Anchorage?  How about from Bend Oregon to those two cities? I would have thought that it was a longer drive across the United States to NYC.  The truth is the LA to […]

Forty-two nights on the road.  From Bend, up to Tok in the Yukon, southwest on the Haines Highway  to the town of Haines and Skagway, and then back to the Alaska Highway and down the Cassiar Highway. Our trip is drawing to a close.  I will write two more of these emails.  This first one will describe the drive […]

This is a drone image of Gravel Lake on the Klondike Highway.  That Highway runs between Dawson City – the subject of the last email – and the Haines Highway. This whole area was definitely one of the highlights of the trip.F  rom Dawson City, we drove about 400 miles south on the Klondike Highway to the […]

It’s been a while since I wrote an update and the main reason is another lesson from this trip.  Things happen.  The “transfer box” that permits us to obtain electricity from “shore power” failed and we had to divert to Anchorage to get a new one installed.  This meant that for a number of days, […]

  One of the best things about writing something like this is hearing from so many friends.  I really appreciate hearing from you and hope that these emails will continue to be of interest.  For those of you who missed any of the first reports and would like to see them, they all can be […]

Hello from 400 miles north of Dawson Creek, the official “mile one” of the Alaska Highway.  Today we entered into the Canadian Rockies.  And it is a good thing that we did.  The first 400 miles – and the additional 700 or so miles from Sumas, Washington where we crossed into Canada, – was interesting, […]

Dear Friends and Family: The Alaska Highway – familiarly referred to as the ALCAN – is a roughly 1500 mile long road beginning in Dawson Creek in British Columbia and ending Alaska.  We always thought “we should try that out someday.”  And then we thought “when is someday?”  So starting on July 29, we – […]

VENICE, ITALY  — NEXT STOP, CROATIA What do you think of when someone mentions “Croatia”?  Although Croatia is an increasingly popular international travel destination, that is a recent phenomenon.  I suspect that many of you, like me, really have no idea at all about what Croatia is like.  So I thought it might be of interest to […]

NEXT STOP – CROATIA   What do you think of when someone mentions “Croatia”?  Although Croatia is an increasingly popular international travel destination, that is a recent phenomenon and I suspect that many of you are like me – and really have no idea at all about what Croatia is like.  So I thought it […]

It has been just over one year since we moved to Bend, Oregon.  It seems as though we have barely been able to scratch the surface in our efforts to visit the beautiful Northwest.  But, upon reflection at the end of the year, we were fortunate enough to visit some pretty amazing places in just […]