Category: Wildlife
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Day Four Travel to Alaska Spring 2025
We drove north over 350 miles today, from Clear Lake, IA to Dilworth, MN. The roads were clear all day, but not long after entering Minnesota, there was snow throughout the landscape. Many of the ponds and lakes were frozen as well. In some of the open water, we saw our first swans of the…
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Day Three Travel to Alaska Spring 2025
We had a great morning walking around our friend’s land in Iowa. C pointed out where he has hunted in the past, and he put up 2 game cameras. We both looked for wildlife, seeing and hearing deer, and many different species of birds. Later we talked with our friends and helped cut (C) and…
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Day One, Driving to Alaska Spring 2025
We completed the first 400 miles of our estimated 4000-mile drive. We have a shorter drive this spring, but will cover a longer distance as we will be on the Alaska Ferry from Bellingham, Washington to Haines, Alaska for 3 days. It’s a beautiful way to take a break from sitting behind the steering wheel! …
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Alaska Travel
As we are packing to return to Alaska, I am also planning our 2025 budget. It is much easier to anticipate what we might spend now that we are on our fourth season! Last year, I tracked the cost of all our mini-vacations, from 3 to 10 days. It cost us $2630 to drive our…
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Coastal Alabama
My side of the family met in Alabama this January. We stayed near the beach in Gulf Shores for 4 days. One day we all took the ferry over to Dauphin Island for lunch and to enjoy the Aquarium there. After the rest of the family left, C and I spent a couple more days…
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Blind Date
I have been chuckling all day since adding “arrange Blind Date” on my to-do list. My proposed dates to reserve a Greater Prairie Chicken Viewing Blind in Minnesota were rejected late last night. Thus, the top priority today was reviewing open dates for the popular blinds at Bluestem Prairie and working one of these dates…
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Day of Rest
I love my weekly day of rest. I enjoy it so much that C suggested I take two days “off off” most weeks now that I am retired. That intriguing idea hasn’t been coming together yet. Six days each week I exercise; plan, prep, and eat healthy food, clean house, and work on my task…
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Whittier, Alaska
We stayed in Whittier September 10 and 11, 2024. While the tiny city gets mixed reviews, we thoroughly enjoyed it and would like to stay there again. It IS different. In order to get to or from the city by road or train, you travel through a narrow, one-way tunnel. There is only room for…
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Happy Birds
I woke up to dozens of birds feeding in the trees this morning. There is a rotating menagerie of robins and cedar waxwing in our Hawthorn tree. The fruit must be in prime condition today. Earlier this morning, one aggressive robin tried to claim the entire tree as his (or her?) own. Now birds fly…
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Lanigan, SK to Steinbach, MB (plus piece of Alaska)
Day Six: we have now traveled 2800 miles from Healy, Alaska and have 1600 to go. We will cross into the United States tomorrow at the Warroad, Minnesota border crossing. Our fun stop for the day was Portage Spillway Provincal Park, which surprised us by having thousands of birds. We saw a White Pelican, a…
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