Mele Kalikimaka means Merry Christmas in Hawaiian, and that is what I wish for you and your loved ones. I made it back to Oahu after a short absence of two and a half months. After seeing the family for Thanksgiving, I drove the Wander back to California, (via Las Vegas,) and hopped on a […]
Hello friends and family, I traveled in my RV from coast to coast, Pacific Ocean to Atlantic Ocean, twice these past half-a-dozen months, and to Alaska and Hawaii too. Although still in some disbelief that I drove two huge circles around the continental United States, after having never owned an RV before, without accident or […]
The map in the current title page, (which also may be found in the accompanying page “The Oregon Trail” if you happen upon this post at a later time,) depicts the route of the Oregon Trail. This wagon trail brought settlers from the midwest to the fertile fields westward through the late 1800s. Like a […]
Since my last post, I traveled through much of Florida, and started up the Dixie Highway. The Dixie Highway route pretty much follows the interstate highways from north to south, Detroit to Miami, although there are eastern, western, and central variations of the route. This differs from Route 66, which is an actual roadway from […]
Hi y’all! As I wrote in my last post, (Sept. 22, 2018,) I planned to travel to the Great Smokey Mountains for some autumn leaf-peeping action. As things turned out, so did my plans. Thus, I named the title of this post the proverbial “A Fork In the Road” because there are always fortunes and […]
I write a quick post today, before I hop on a plane and return to mainland U.S.A. this afternoon. The past week, I stayed on the island of Oahu. As an experiment, I went without a rental car for the entire week. It was a test of how easy it would be to get around […]
Howdy folks! Over the past couple of weeks, I made my way to the Hawaiian islands; otherwise, known as paradise here on Earth. I wanted to see all of the major islands of Hawaii this year. In combination with my trip six months ago, I visited them all except Lanai. (One day, I will have […]
The return to the United States from Canada at International Falls, Minnesota, brought me through the Lake of the Woods, a very scenic drive close to the Great Lakes. I camped a few nights at Voyageurs National Park, a park dedicated to the life of French and Indian fur traders of two hundred years ago. […]
In last week’s post, I chronicled my trip on the Alaskan Marine Highway System, a “highway” on the waters of the Inside Passage. This week, I write about my experiences on the Alaskan Highway. The “Alaskan Highway,” like Route 66, today comprises a series of numbered land roads–British Columbia 97, Yukon 1, and Alaska 2– […]
This post is titled “The Road to Alaska…on the Alaska Marine Highway System.” However bizarre this may appear, the name of the ferry service reflects the course through the Inside Passage and its use, for all intents and purposes, as a Marine Highway. And all along, I thought it was just a poor man’s cruise! […]