Category: Adventure

Wildlife and Rockies

I’m going to admit that I had no idea the Rockies went all the way to Canada. I somehow thought they only lasted through the lower 48 and then were called something else once they hit the border. I wasn’t great at geography.

The last few days we have transitioned from more flat lands into the Northern Rockies and it is beautiful! Having lived in south central Alaska the last few years, I got used to the mountain scenery and expected to not be as awed by the rest of Alaska and Canada as I have been.

Going down to Skagway reminded me of the very unique mountain ranges that kiss the sea with rolling shorelines covered in lichen.

Transiting from Takhini Hot Springs to Watson Lake, then onto Liard Hot Springs and Muncho Lake brought different scenery and, finally, my wildlife Safari!

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Kids Say the Darndest Things!

One of the planned highlights of our trip through the Yukon was to ride the White Pass & Yukon Route train line. Now this is a train line that is over 100 years old and though it is maintained it is not for those who are accustomed to the red line in Boston.

This train actually derailed last year with passengers onboard. I made sure to state this loud enough so that the women sitting in front of Shawnda could hear. About halfway up the pass it became quite apparent that this women was incredibly afraid of heights, so I decided to have a little fun. Continue reading “Kids Say the Darndest Things!” →

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There is gold in them there hills? Stores

I can tell you where the gold is! I was given a map, won’t say where I got it. This map was supposedly supposed to lead to a great vein deposit of gold in the Yukon Territory. Now I am suspicious of everything so this was no different. The source of the information that I received came from a reliably source, but stranger stories have been told of gold in the hills.

If you can decipher what I have written and have a sense of adventure these words will lead you to great riches. Follow along and you may be able to figure it out. But I’m not going to just give it away so pay attention.

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Imagination is Greater than Knowledge

We are off. Headed out to see what we have never seen or to see things we have in a different way.

We left Valdez Friday night and arrived safely at Slide Mountain. We could not resist visiting our friends here Josh and Anna Stark and their family at Slide Mountain Cabins and RV Park before we leave Alaska. Good friends are sometimes found not made and this is one of those cases. I have to personally thank them for hosting many of our adventures here in Alaska,

Addy racing in Eureka

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Ringing the Bell

Food is probably one of the things I am looking forward to the most on our upcoming adventure. It is a huge part of life and if you limit trying new things to eat you might as well stay home and munch on some cardboard.

Most people associate trying different foods with traveling abroad. Well this is not the case and some of the best ethnic and diverse culinary experiences can be found right here in the US of A. A simple one is fried chicken. Since KFC is just a fried dough ball with at best a chicken nugget in the middle it is hard for most people to fathom that fried chicken, real fried chicken can be better than the best Kobi beef in the world. Don’t believe me.

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Just Lucky I Guess

I am of the opinion the same as Arnold Palmer.

“The more I practice the luckier I get”

Well travel is no different. I see lots of articles on travel, how too do it right and that sort of thing. This tells me that there must be a huge market of people that don’t travel.

Weather it’s by air, car, train, bus, rocket or Uber ( still not sure who named this company. Sounds like eww and booger if the Jabberwocky would say it) they all take practice.

The articles are always trying to tell you the best way to do things but with no practice this is just fruitless reading. You have to go and do it yourself. You can’t become a better golfer no matter how many issues of Golf Digest you read.

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Just Weird

I think we are just weird, and I’m totally ok with that if it’s true.

I have had many different reactions when I tell people what we are doing. Most say it sounds very exciting, but others look at me like we are crazy or as if we are going to ruin our kids chances at a normal life. As if somehow missing going back to the same school with the same kids is going to make it so hard for them to adjust to school life once we land somewhere.

To be real, I have had doubts about our plans, and have wondered how the kids will adjust to a new town or school. I also have concern about them making friends along the way. In the end, I realize that seeing the world, and meeting new people will actually make them more prepared for what real life will be like for them when they get older. I also think back to our other travels and remember that they managed to find kids to hang out with at stops we made, and learned to accept others who were different because we went to places where the kids were in fact different than them.

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Figuring It Out

We’ve been in the camper for about 10 days and there is still a lot of work to do. This morning I managed to unpack our one set of dishes. I found this really nice tree design by Corelle that I figure might actually make it out of Alaska in one piece. Figured I would see how it went before buying any more.

The design really made me think of nature and the purpose of this trip. We will see if my nonskid idea works to keep them from clanking together as we drive down the road.

We also got Addy’s hammock put up in the trees just outside the camper. Apparently I didn’t do a very good job checking the knots that were already tied in the lines, because not 15 minutes into her horsing around, it fell out of the tree. She’s pretty happy now however, pretending she can’t touch the ground which means everything she wants she gets someone else to get for her.

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The Journey Begins

 

 

Thanks for joining us on our next life adventure!

This journey has been in the works for just over a year now when after going back and forth on whether to find a new job (since I was due to be laid off) or do something different, we decided on the something different option.

One night while sitting on our couch, surfing Facebook, my husband was sitting there laughing to himself. Of course, his laughter piqued my interest, and what he told me was “the people on this Full Time RV site were cracking him up”.  Now, my husband has been the cause of many adventures in our 16 years together, but Full Time RV’ing was not something I ever imagined would be in our future.  But, my interest in his laughter caused a movement in our household when I joined the same site and started to get interested in what this lifestyle would be like.

Seeing posts about families on the road, visiting places we only dreamed of, and making it all work in their travel trailer, 5th wheel or other RV made me start to wonder if this is something we could manage while we figured out where our feet would land next. Continue reading “The Journey Begins” →

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