After months of stalking Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist for a camper, Mike and I finally made a purchase. Actually, we seem to be the only ones calling it a camper, everyone else says travel trailer. We are now lucky…
There are some great day trips from Fairbanks, and the Sunday before last (April 7th) my family and I ventured out to one that’s been very popular over the past few weeks; Castner Glacier, an accessible ice cave that…
Do I have your attention? Haha, I typically hate “click bait”, but, I want your attention! Because I KNOW many of you have asked about this, and how SO many people can benefit from what I am about to…
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What I learned from 70 hours of flying with my two-year-old
Yep, 70 hours of flying with a two-year-old over three weeks, and yep, I’m crazy. It also was not my worst flying experience (no flight seems that hard after getting a stomach bug mid-flight on an international flight with…
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Creating Impact in your Photography A quick note to help improve your landscape photography
“Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.” (Don McCullin) I have to admit, even…
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Alaska Highlights, A Road Trip Report A ten day road trip including Denali, Homer, Seward, Valdez and McCarthy
Time. Ohhhh boy, I am not good at managing my time. I’m learning that now, with the “new” time I have mentioned in my last blog. I thought I would feel like I have all the time in the…
This post is different than my usual. No trip reports, no tips, just a little update to our lives, because it will impact this blog. Next week, we’re going through a BIG change. It might not seem like a…
We’ve now been in Alaska almost 5 months! Time goes by too fast, it really doesn’t feel that long. I wanted to share on here an update on what we’ve been up, and the best way to do that…
The best part about having visitors is showing off your home. Alaska doesn’t yet feel like home, but doing fun things here helps. My mom, sister, and my mom’s boyfriend came to visit for a week last week, and…
We’re finally here! We’ve been here in Alaska for almost a month, and it’s definitely been an adjustment. We flew from China where it was in the 80’s, spent five days back in Germany where it was still a…