Blogs from North America - page 3

Woke up this morning freezing. Ray had forgotten to turn up the heater before going to bed, but as soon as he did it was quite toasty. The boys came over for breakfast this morning and we discussed modifying our route so we could spend a little more time in certain locations. Not being able to take the Alaska Highway from Dawson Creek, and having to head West instead, added more miles to our trip. We reached the end of the Cassier Highway yesterday, and are now on the Alaska Highway (Alcan). They say there is a lot of wildlife on this highway, and we saw our first bear of the day shortly after leaving the campground. The bear did not seem frightened at all so we finally got some nice pictures. The weather started off ... read more

Today is supposed to be a great day, especially for Ketchikan where it rains something like 260 days per year! There was no rain in the forecast and the temperature was upper 50s. We woke up before 8am, got ready and went up for our usual breakfast. I took a couple of photos of the ship pulling into port, but they didn't turn out that well, because the window was dirty. We both got blueberry pancakes with whipped cream and a ham and cheese omelet. Manoli also got some fruit. By 10am we were off the ship and started wandering around. We'd heard that the Creek Street district was definitely worth seeing, so that is the first place we went. This was the original part of Ketchikan, and where the women owned all the houses, mostly ... read more

Though I have not visited all of the Major League ballparks, I have been to some of the best and most famous. Here is a little (Wealth of Geeks) about each venue's food. Starting with the most famous place: Wrigley Field is an iconic location that people rarely visit for food. However, you won’t be disappointed by the humble concession options. The stadium serves up a magnificent Chicago dog that locals and tourists alike enjoy. Chicago dogs are classic hot dogs on a poppy seed bun topped with yellow mustard, sweet pickle relish, white onion, tomato slices, a dill pickle, sport peppers, and celery salt. They’re simultaneously fresh and hearty. Almost as famous in Boston: You can score a Fenway Frank inside and outside the Red Sox stadium. These dogs are different than your average because ... read more

Off to an early start today as it’s about 4 1/2 hours to Sequoia National Park. Can you image driving that far to go for a walk in the woods and look at trees? Sequoia is home to the largest trees in the world by volume. The General Sherman is 102.6 feet in circumference and and stands at 52,508 cubic feet tall. The General Grant is the second largest tree. It’s tomorrow now because I didn’t get a chance to finish this blog last night. Canada needs to take some lessons on how to make our 400 series highways a little more attractive and interesting. The medians and side ditches here are planted with multi coloured oleanders. Private homes have flowing bougainvillea vines trailing over walls. There are miles and miles of orchards which I assumed ... read more

We were up before 8am, and went up to the Cafeteria. After breakfast, pretty much the usual, we got off the ship to explore Icy Strait Point. We had paid for the gondola ride to the top of the mountain. You can ride the shorter, less steep gondola for free to the other side of the inlet, and walk or take a bus to the town of Icy Strait Point. After we got off the gondola on the other side of the inlet, we boarded to very high up gondola ride to the top. The views were amazing. They had a coupe small places to eat, but we'd already had breakfast and lunch was quite a ways away. We took some great photos and reboarded the gondola to go back down. At the bottom, we decided ... read more