Blogs from North America - page 7760

Our first trip to Alaska July 15-25th 2007, We have always loved Colorado the best of all places we've been, but Alaska has Co. beat!!!!! It's alot like Co. going to see Mt. Mckinley, but the coastal part is the best. Mt. Mckinley can only be seen 20% of the time, and we got to see it going and leaving Denali National Park. The two boat tours we took were great, we even saw some whales !! one out of Seward and the other out of Whittier......Thay both had wild life, the one out of whittier was a glacier cruise. Hope u enjoy these pics........ read more

Finally we arrive at the destination that was the centerpiece of our trip. Words cannot describe the visual experience so Sylvan's pictures will have to do. Keep in mind this park is the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. We saw our first Buffalo on our ride into the park an amazing sight. Anywhere you see cars pulled over you know there is wildlife nearby. The Old Faithful Inn is spectacular we checked in and immediately made dinner reservations for our stay. Good thing, Thursday and Friday they only had 9:15 and 9:00 left. Our room was in the "new" wing very basic but nice, no TV (how will Sylvan fall asleep?) or Internet which is why it's taken a week to get caught up on the blog. We settled in and had dinner ... read more

Tuesday August 22, on the road again this time heading east. As we were leaving Oregon we took a scenic road that parallels the highway and stumbled upon the most beautiful Multanomah waterfalls. There's a big visitor's center with a restaurant so we stopped for pictures and breakfast. It turns out this is the most visited tourist attraction in the entire state of Oregon. We got back on Interstate 84 that follows the Columbia River. This is the prettiest interstate highway and there are various stops with information about the Oregon Trail which passed close by. There are even areas where you can still see the wagon ruts. Passing through western Oregon once again it hits you just how big this country is and how much open space still remains in these areas. In other ... read more

Fun Ride in the Rain Wednesday, 22 August 2007 Another moving day. This time to Sudbury. I decided that I’d like to do at least a near-30 kilometre ride from the motel, up highway 557, which I’d explored a little bit on Monday, before we actually left Blind River. So once I had all of my stuff packed up, I left Bob and Panna to finish loading the van and took Blue for a run. It had been cloudy all morning and just began to rain softly as I departed. And despite the rain, it was one of the more enjoyable rides I’d had out here. The road was mildly hilly, with some curves, nice scenery and light on the traffic. I really would have liked to continue for more than 30 kilometres, but it eventually ... read more

Howdee folks howyal doin, the last entry made was from Southsea which seems a million miles away, in fact it probably is, since then we have made some considerable adjustments to our lifestyle. We have down sized from the relative luxury of our beloved van to carrying all our wordly goods in a couple of rucksacs and sleeping in the equivalent of a crisp packet. The transition from luxury to poverty, from UK to USA ,from pounds to dollars was fairly uneventful. The outward flight was delayed by 5 hours so added to a 10 hour flight made hard going. Eventually after reading everything to hand including guidebooks,newspapers,spanish dictionaries and flight safety cards together with games of eye spy and 'guess which air hostess I would most like to sit on my face' we arrived at ... read more