Category: travel
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It’s been a year since Craig and I banged around for 21 days in Alaska. We flew into Anchorage and took an Alaska Marine Highway ferry down to Bellingham three weeks later. Among our various stops, we spent a few days in Juneau, the state capital, which is a busy tourist mecca (for good reason)…
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I have been trying, since winter closed in around me, to find the beauty in this grayer season. But yesterday and today, I’m pulling up images of warmer more colorful places and times. Today’s pleasure — places I’ve kayaked (clockwise from top left): Cameron Lake, Waterton National Park, in September; Eklutna Lake, Alaska in June;…
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A three-week trip to Europe last year taught me to plan for travel fatigue It was pretty simple, really. Stepping out into lush park or garden surroundings works at home to both sooth and energize. And it turned out to be a good antidote for the exhaustion that goes hand in hand with managing an…