We spent the last few days along the Steese Highway. This is Alaska Highway 6 that travels northeast from Fairbanks and ends at the town of Circle. There are both paved and gravel portions of this road. We only traveled as far as Twelve Mile Summit, which is about halfway, but we found the portion […]
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We have spent the last three nights at Chena Hot Springs Resort, north-east of Fairbanks. This place is a very eclectic mix of historic, natural, and man-made treasures. There are such a wide variety of activities and attractions that everyone is sure to find something they will enjoy. Let’s start with the activities we enjoyed
We have had a very full few days in Fairbanks, AK! Normally, we don’t spend a ton of time in cities. We usually prefer to be in more remote and natural areas, but when you come all the way to Alaska, it pays to see as much as you can, even the cities. It has
A drive further up California Highway 1 brought us to MacKerricher State Park. This is another coastal park and is located just a few miles north of Fort Bragg. The drive between Salt Point and here was gorgeous, but all the driving we have done on the 1 has been super curvy with lots of
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Today we spent the afternoon at Manzanar National Historic Site. This is a place we had never heard of until we came to this area, and we really weren’t expecting there to be much to do there. We were thinking we would probably be there for an hour or so and then on to something
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We have been on the road for two months today, so we thought we would reflect a bit and check in with how we feel like it has gone so far. We also asked some of our family and friends what questions they have for us, so we will get to some of those, too.
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Today we spent the afternoon in Winslow, AZ. We have actually been in the area for a couple of days, but the weather has kept us inside for much of it, so when the wind died down and the sun came out, we were happy to get out of the Bigfoot for a while. The
The last few days have been a bit of a roller coaster ride for us. There has been a good bit of fun, including visits to Jerome and Sedona, AZ, and some big disappointments. But let’s talk about the fun stuff first! As mentioned in our last post, we were staying in the Cottonwood, AZ
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Yesterday was a good day. It was Heather’s birthday, so we wanted to be close to a decent restaurant for dinner, which led us to Cottonwood, AZ. Before dinner, though, we wanted to find something fun to do, and since the weather was nice we wanted it to be something outdoors. Tuzigoot National Monument was
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We spent a couple of days in the Lake Pleasant area just north of Phoenix. We had one day of nice weather to explore the park area, so we will share a few of the photos we captured along the way. Until next time!
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The Sonoran Desert is known as “the Green Desert” and if you look at the photo above, I think you will agree with us that the name is appropriate! On one of our hikes while here, we both repeatedly commented that we didn’t realize a desert could be so diverse and, yes, so green! Learning
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Wow! Most everyone knows what a Saguaro Cactus is. It is such an iconic image of the southwest! We have all seen images of one lone saguaro with the sun behind it, and so we picture the desert with very sparsely spaced cacti and virtually nothing else around. That is not at all what the
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Other than visiting parks, it is not often that we do typical “tourist” activities. Rarely do we spend money on museums, shows, tours, and other experiences that are commonly associated with travel. However, being just 30 minutes from Tombstone, AZ, and having heard about the gunfight at the O.K. Corral our entire lives, we couldn’t
We had never heard of Chiricahua National Monument until we started doing research for this trip. We read a couple of articles about good places to visit in the winter and it was mentioned in one of them. Without thinking much about it, we put it on our ideas map and moved on, not really
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A few years ago after a visit to Great Sand Dunes National Park, we were telling our friend, Ken, about it and he said that if we liked dunes, we should definitely check out White Sands National Monument. This was before White Sands became a national park in 2019. We filed that away in the
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