Thanks to the opportunity to work remotely, I spent three weeks in Alaska working in Anchorage during the week and then taking off to explore on the weekends. (Check out my post on a weekend road trip on the Kenai Peninsula here.) Visiting Denali National Park had always been a dream, and even though I …
Thanks to the opportunity to work remotely, I spent three weeks in Alaska working in Anchorage during the week and then taking off to explore on the weekends. (Posts about weekend adventures near Anchorage and to Denali National Park are coming soon!) My very first weekend I took an epic road trip to the Kenai …
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in southeastern Alaska may seem as remote as other Alaskan parks like Katmai and Lake Clark. But thanks to a family I met on the ferry ride to Juneau, I realized that spending a weekend in Glacier Bay National Park is actually a fairly easy – and totally incredible …
While I like to seize the day with 48 hour trips and weekend adventures whenever I can, my favorite way to travel is really to spend more than a week somewhere. Thanks to remote work, PTO, and a federal holiday or two, I had an amazing opportunity to spend five weeks on an Alaskan adventure …
“48 Hours on the Ferry to Alaska” is hopefully something that kind of makes sense, but I’d like to start off this post by saying that what I really want to call this is “48 Hours on the Alaska Marine Highway” because – yes! One of the best ways to get around in Alaska is …
Thanks to an amazing friend I found myself in Puerto Vallarta for the week of Thanksgiving, with the only catch being that my friend wasn’t actually there on the day or the weekend after – giving me the opportunity to explore the city and surrounding area after first getting settled in with her. Definite disclaimer …
After moving back to Seattle, reunions with all three of Washington’s national parks were high on my to-do list. Fitting everything into a weekend trip to Olympic NP can seem harder to do than visiting its two sister national parks, given the park’s location across Puget Sound from Seattle and with such a large area …
After moving back to Seattle, reunions with all three of Washington’s national parks were high on my to-do list. Visiting North Cascades National Park requires somewhat strategic timing, as Highway 2 (also known as the North Cascades Highway) closes during the winter – and if you visit too soon after it reopens, many of the …
Vancouver, BC is just a three hour drive north of my hometown of Seattle, but I’m embarrassed to admit that other than Handmaid’s Tale-induced fantasies of possible escape routes from the political apocalypse, I haven’t given it much thought since I last visited on a family vacation when I was 12. On my last visit …
This is a bit of a cheat on the “48 hours” concept because really you should go to Maine for at least four days, and this is a one-way trip that starts in Acadia. What I actually did was fly into Boston in the evening, drive up to the Acadia area (a cute AirBnB in …