Brown bear at Katmai National Park, Alaska The only way to spend the night at Brooks Lodge in Katmai National Park is through a lottery....

Where the buffalo roam... The first half of our trip to Montana took us to Glacier National Park. On the second half we visited...

Exploring the Majesty of Glacier National Park in early May

It's been on our bucket list for some time now, and frankly it should really be on everyone's, the Int'l. Balloon Fiesta in...

#sunflowerstops #KeyWest #staycation #turtlehospital #thefloridakeys In the beginning of June, Dave and I drove to Key West for a quick...

(Anchorage/Kodiak/Girdwood/Seward) We arrived in Anchorage at 1am on July 4th, 2023. Dave and I stayed in the "honeymoon suite" of the...

Our long-awaited trip to see the brown bears of Katmai National Park had finally come in July 2023. We booked the trip back in September...

In October 2022 Dave and I took a two week vacation visiting Minnesota and Iowa. We spent one week in each state, completing our goal to...

In the end of August, we squeezed a ton of sightseeing and activities into 5 nights in West Virginia. Dave and I flew into a tiny...

During the last weekend of July, we spent 4 nights in Idaho Falls, ID. We arrived in the afternoon of Thursday July 28th after a...

It took us almost 5 hours and 4 stops to fly from Ketchikan to Anchorage, Alaska. But once we arrived, our first stop after checking...

Ketchikan, Alaska, "The First City" and "The Salmon Capital of the World".

The second half of our June 2021 two week trip to the Northwest took us first to Mt. Rainier, Washington. It was a beautiful drive, a...

In the beginning of June Dave and I headed to the West Coast, the Pacific North West Coast that is. We took 12 nights and split them...

It's been a while since my last blog. Between work and Covid travel has been difficult however, we were finally able to get away and...

During the first weekend of 2021 Dave and I decided to take a three day trip and visit my sister and her husband (Jackie & Craig) in San...

In September 2020 Dave and I spent 10 nights traveling through Nebraska and South Dakota. We started our trip in Omaha and participated...

In September 2020 we traveled to Omaha, Nebraska to run in the Omaha Half Marathon , our 41st half marathon on our quest to 50. We...

Our September trip to Omaha was the first vacation we have taken since the Covid-19 shut down in March. As you can imagine I was a...