January 29, 2023 – February 27, 2023 After a long journey that took us through Seattle and Korea, we finally arrived in Bangkok, Thailand. Our flights went smoothly, though I was hoping I’d sleep a bit more than I did. Mona may have gotten a bit more sleep, but we were both pretty spent by […]
Tuesday September 13 Today consisted of two big things: taking a tour of the Sault Locks on a boat; and getting ready for our backpacking trip to Isle Royale. Our locks tour took about two hours, and was very well done. The boat we went out on wasn’t very full, so we could easily move
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August 28, 2022 – September 12, 2022 Sunday, August 28th Today saw us leaving Maine and driving to Canada! We had a really pretty drive up through northern Maine, and arrived in the small port town of Saint Stephen right at 2:00. We had filled out our paperwork, mainly regarding Covid, and were a bit
August 4, 2022 – August 10, 2022 8/4/2022 Today was a fairly mellow day for us in northern Iceland. We were able to check out of our room at 11, so we enjoyed a rather late breakfast and got to sleep in a little bit. Most of our lodging has included breakfast, and the food
July 13, 2022 – July 27, 2022 Today we drove from our Harvest Host site (a farm stand that sold donuts – hurray!) outside Indianapolis over to Berlin, OH – Amish country! The Amish are largely of German descent, which likely explains the name of this fairly small town (Berlin, OH). The countryside here in
April 17, 2022 – June 7, 2022 This blog post picks up where we last left off in Cocoa Beach, Florida. After a nice visit with Adam and our time starting to draw to a close in Florida, on a whim we decided to see if there were any cruises that left from that area
March 3, 2022 – March 25, 2022 Early March saw us continuing our trek in the south, and slowly making our way further east. On March 2nd, we managed to make it to Jackson Mississippi. I was napping on the way in – our drive over from Hot Springs AK was 3 or 4 hours,
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January 18, 2022 – February 10, 2022 After having spent Christmas and New Years down in Phoenix with Ramona’s parents and other family, we started to get ready for our departure to the southeast US. Our first big milestone in the next leg of our journey was our plan to go to Mardi Gras down
November 8, 2021 – November 21, 2021 Monday, November 8th of 2021 saw us making our way to Yosemite, and compared to when we were last here to climb half dome in prime park season, it’s a totally different place! The weather up north in Washington and Oregon was getting chilly, and indeed it’s a
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October 11 – October 24, 2021 It’s hard to believe, but it’s already October of our first year traveling – time does go by fast! This week we made our way to Pescadero, CA. The coast of California is very pretty, and being able to see things on weekdays makes things easier – fewer crowds,
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