Category: travel
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Illinois: Barns and Windmills
Today we visited friends and family in Iowa and Illinois, only progressing about 200 miles towards home. Today’s photos theme is “Old Barns and New Windmills”. The barns were here when I grew up in the area. The windmills arrived after I left, and they make my heart soar. I’m not looking forward to getting…
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Nebraska and Iowa
This was not an exciting day. We started with a quick and friendly oil change at Jiffy Lube before driving 400 miles for the day. Our truck will have over 200,000 miles on it by the time we get to Virginia, and we try to take good care of it. We will have driven 20,000…
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Wyoming
While we started the day in Laurel, Montana, most of our 360 miles of travel was in Wyoming, ending in Douglas. The best part of the day was the Thermopolis area with Hot Springs State Park and Wind Canyon. It was fascinating to walk around the park with the hot water, sulfur smell, and surreal…
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Montana
We drove further than planned today, 533 miles, all Interstate. We started in Washington and crossed North Idaho, but most of the miles were in Montana, ending in Laurel. Our only brief stop was at Three Forks for Chinese food and a short stroll. We saw 30 Pronghorn, 33 Deer, and 5 Elk today. Some…
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Washington State
We woke up at the western end of Washington State, and have stopped driving just shy of Spokane, near the eastern border. This morning, we got off the ferry and drove to North Cascades National Park. It was beautiful, though hazy with smoke, and busy. After visiting North Cascades in the morning, the impressive Grand…
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MV Columbia, Day 4
After a foggy start where the ferry used its fog horn every few minutes, the day turned gloriously sunny as we were approaching Vancouver Island. We saw so much marine wildlife after it cleared! Today, I saw 3 Orca, 11 Humpback Whales, 27 Sea Otters, 2 small pods of either Dall’s Porpoises or Pacific White-sided…
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MV Columbia, Day 3
Shortly after breakfast this morning, we had a 4 hour stop in Ketchikan. Shockingly, it didn’t rain at all during the stop! We saw lots of pink salmon in Ketchikan Creek and watched a seal eat one. My seal photos are so pathetic that I am not posting them. When we headed south again, we…
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MV Columbia, Day 2
Today we were onboard the ferry all day except for 1.5 hours onshore in Sitka. While the skies have been heavily overcast, it hasn’t rained all that much since breakfast. At Sitka we toured the Raptor Center. I borrowed the below photo caption from a poster near some bald eagles (“I AM Smiling”). The Raptor…
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MV Columbia
We are on the ferry somewhere between Haines and Juneau. We met some interesting people both in the forward observation lounge while looking at scenery and in the cafeteria getting our supper. I had delicious sausage and kale soup while C had a bacon cheesebuger, and our total supper, including sides, was less than $20! Earlier…
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Destruction Bay, Fall 2025
We have begun our road trip back to Virginia! We anticipate taking a bit over 2 weeks, arriving in late September. We didn’t take many photos today, so below I added 3 highlights from earlier trips on this section of the Alcan Highway. We didn’t see any bears on this stretch today (September 13, 2025). …
Me & C 