Tag: Travels
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Unpacking the Overpacking
by: JM So I returned from my short, four day road trip to the Maine coast. As you will see in the below image I waaaay overpacked. But, in my defense I will say that I was testing several different load-outs, and bags and their configuration for our upcoming long-term summer trip back to Alaska,…
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Delta Junction
“This was one of the places people told me to go, it was oneof the big trips that you should see: Alaska.” Delta Junction, Alaska The Alaska Highway was a dirt and gravel road when we drove it for the first time back in 1977. It was long, dusty, and dangerous road as it took…
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Alaska, here we come. Days 14-15 
DAY 14: Today we stopped at Daku Cultural Centre visitor information center Dakwakada/ Haines Junction / Kluane National Park and Reserve. This was the most thorough and interesting and engaging visitor center that I have ever experienced. Experience is the perfect word because I have been in and seen many visitor centers that are collections…
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Alaska, here we come. Days 10-13
DAY /NiGHT 10: Spent the day relaxing at the Hyatt Regency in Prince George DAY 11 Left the Hyatt Regency in Prince George after a hot breakfast around 10 AM. Headed to the local Walmart for some basics: ice, water, and some snack items that we could keep in our cooler: cheese, yogurt, grapes, and…
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Alaska, here We Come: days 4-6
DAY 4: Left Sierra Inn, Minot, ND at 10:00 AM They had the typical continental breakfast; oatmeal and fruit were somewhat healthy choices. Ok, I had the fresh waffles ; the smell wafted through the whole first floor on the way there. I am only human. Onward North Right before entering Canada, and that is…
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Alaska here we come day 1-3 “Ramblings from the road”
DAY 1:I don’t think it’s sunk in where we are going yet. The trip has been planned for over a year, Itineraries have been done for weeks. Yet, it still does not seem real, but we are retracing some of our original trip to Alaska back in “77 while exploring some new areas. We drove…
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Alaska Here we come!
“Alaska isn’t about who you were when you headed this way. It’s about who you become.” Alaska, the last frontier, is our next destination. And excitement and thrilled does not even begin to cover the emotions we are feeling over this trip Having lived there from 1977 to 1980, we are excited to relive some…
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Photography Gear for a Long Journey
Now for the cool stuff: Packing Photography Gear for a Road Trip! By: JM. We’ll start by listing/showing some of the ancillary items I am taking on this journey starting with the more mundane items such as hard drives, cables, pouches, etc. I promise to make it short and sweet. These are two Samsung T5’s…
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“Some of your best ideas come when you’re on vacation.“
Though in actuality, some of my best ideas have come from planning vacations. We travel quite a bit, whether it is just a day or weeks. Traveling in the car sometimes keeps us on tight schedules and stopping frequently for snacks can get expensive and time consuming. Here are some of the ideas that we…
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St Augustine. “It’s as if some Little Spanish town had broken loose and floated over here and got stranded on a sand bank”
.St. Augustine has it all. Fun. Flair. Food. My favorites while visiting St. Augustine (in reverse order) 6. The weather: I put this last because we were there during spring break in April and the weather was nothing short of spectacular. Temperatures ranged from the low 60’s to the low 80’s; the humidity was no higher than 56%. The…
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