Travel tidbit

May 1, 2019

Flag of Colombia I chose Colombia for our winter escape because the country has more species of birds than any...

Jan 14, 2019

Overnight ferry to Ketchikan Ketchikan is a town of mixed blessings. It’s the biggest city on the temperate rainforest island...

Dec 24, 2018

Leaving Haines. The Alaska highways ferry was ten hours late, so instead of leaving in the middle of the night...

Dec 7, 2018

Young trumpeter swan In order to drive to Haines, at the northern end of the panhandle, from the bulk of...

Dec 6, 2018

Along the Dempster In the last blog post I left us parked in a gravel pit just short of the...

Nov 4, 2018

Dawson City to the Arctic Circle Welcome to Dawson City Coming from the south one passes the Dempster Highway turn-off...

Oct 26, 2018

View from the Dempster Highway In 2010 we had been close to the Arctic Circle and had seen how gorgeous...

Apr 6, 2018

Since I’d never been to Africa before, the idea of leaving just after the safari didn’t seem right. What if...

Mar 30, 2018

Hills! Rock outcroppings! Geologic features! Something different! First stop in Chobe Nat. Park was Savuti camp, on the west end...

Mar 24, 2018

Evening along the Khwai River The Khwai Concession is a novel approach to tourism in Botswana. In order to get...