2021: Travel Adventures in a COVID world

The saying is that, “Timing is everything.” I started my blog shortly after retirement from teaching in 2019. I was looking forward to sharing some of my past experiences initially and then moving on to new adventures. While my wife is still working, she has generous vacation days so I expected we would travel a lot. However, about seven months later the world shut down as COVID took over the world. How was I going to write a travel blog…

Alaska Sojourn: The Snow Clad Mountains to Seward

Saturday was a transition day. We would be leaving the interior of Alaska and traveling south to Seward on the Kenai Peninsula. This would be another long day of driving for us. After packing up our stuff and getting it all in the car, we left for the first stop on our journey south, the tourist town of Talkeetna. The town is actual quite close to where we were staying as the crow flies. Unfortunately the Susitna River separates the…