Dont miss our latest video below “Living On The Edge” For best results stream it on a big screen in 1080P and crank the volume way up!! ENJOY! In this post we spend 10 days exploring the San Rafael Swell. Our photos don’t do this place justice, it is an environment that must be […]

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Don’t miss our latest adventure video below  “Somewhere South” For best picture quality watch it in 1080P and on a BIG screen, with the sound cranked way up and enjoy!! It was that time of year again, fall in Alaska, time for the three of us to head south. Every fall just before we depart, […]

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Above is our latest video “Tumbleweeds”.  Be sure to watch it on a big screen in 1080p with the volume turned way up!!   I highly recommend using ear buds or head phones to truly enjoy the soundtrack. Please Feel Free to Use This Post As a Distraction From What’s Currently Going On In Our […]

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Enjoy our latest video “Holiday On The Hardy” and be sure to watch it in 1080p on a big screen with the volume cranked way up!! It’s December 2024 and once again we find ourselves in Baja California. This is our fifth winter of traveling south of the border (in the Farther).  But instead of […]

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Welcome to last winter’s adventure while we wander the Baja peninsula in January of 2024. Don’t miss our latest video above… “In The Middle Of It All” We highly recommend watching it in 1080P and on a big screen with the volume up turned way up!! This post is a little late due to unforeseen […]

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We are back on the road again! Don’t miss our latest video below “HOBO CAMP” For best results watch it in 1080P and crank up the volume to mach-10    After a busy summer spent dealing with family matters part of the time at our home in Denali and also in the Chitina area of […]

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In early January of 2024 we again find ourselves headed south of the border continuing our explorations of Baja California. Be sure to watch our latest video in 1080p and on a large screen with the volume knob turned all the way up!! In the first part of this Baja adventure (there is a second […]

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These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there’s only future, there’s only here, there’s only now. — Van Morrison   The summer of 2023 is one we will not soon forget. To enjoy our latest video be sure to watch it in […]

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  If possible watch the above video on a big screen in 1080p, turn up the volume slip in the ear pods and enjoy.   Sometimes in life one gets lucky, I am one of those people… Early in my life I hitchhiked to Alaska on a quest to climb mountains and explore the wild […]

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It was very hard for us to leave the Sea of Cortez. We had been living happily on its beaches for over a month but eventually we ran out of drinking water, fresh food and with our stash of beer depleted, it was time to move on… Please enjoy our latest video while watching it […]

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Don’t miss our latest video, watch it in 1080P, slip in the ear buds, crank up the volume and enjoy!! As we slowly descend the narrow, steep, rocky gravel road leading towards the east coast of Baja we soon realize we are headed to a very remote and isolated location. After several hours of steep, […]

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After 5000 miles and 4 months of driving from Alaska to the tip of Baja we realize we have driven as far south as we will go this winter… it’s now time to just coast for awhile. Don’t miss our latest video, watch it on the big screen in 1080p, slip in the ear buds […]

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  We Follow the El Camino Del Diablo or Devil’s Highway From Ajo To Yuma Don’t miss our latest video, for best results slip in the ear buds, watch it in 1080P on the big screen or a laptop, crank it up and enjoy! On our way south towards Baja we get a wild hair […]

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Don’t miss our latest video, slip in your ear buds or watch it on the big screen in 1080P and crank it up for best results. In this post we travel over 2000 miles continuing our adventure south through Canada and down into the western USA towards Mexico. Over the years we have driven most […]

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This post is episode 2 of our Wandering Baja series and concludes our adventures in Baja during the winter of 2022. As usual the people of Mexico were incredibly warm, helpful and very happy to see us. It was an extremely enjoyable and memorable trip.  We met new friends and traveled with old friends making […]

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Meet our new traveling companion. This video was captured during her first 6 months of wandering with us.   Enjoy! You are invited to follow us, for more adventures! [ Pleas leave a comment at the very bottom of this page!!

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  We are currently wandering through Baja Mexico. Enjoy our latest video, this will be a multipart series. If possible watch in it 1080p and turn up the volume for the most enjoyment!!

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Again, it has been awhile since we last posted and yes, we are spending this winter in Alaska. Why have we decide to do this? If you have been reading our past posts, read FARTHER, you would know that our future travel goals have evolved to include finding destinations that require a high clearance overland type vehicle […]

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The snow was drifting across the road in an almost complete whiteout as we neared the top of the pass.  All of a sudden the rear tires began to lose traction and we slowly slide sideways towards the edge. That winter day in 1976 the road conditions were less then ideal as we attempted to summit Trutch Mt in British […]

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It has been several months since we last posted as life has been very busy. The Zephyr is  parked for the summer at Basecamp and we are all enjoying the mild summer weather in our favorite place, Alaska. Even though the big dogs love to travel, they have been enjoying being at home, racing through […]

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After 13,000 miles and 7 months of wandering the back roads of 17 different States and 6 Canadian Provinces, we finally turn north towards our home in Alaska.  Off and on we had also spent over 3 months camped in my mom’s backyard hanging with her and helping with needed maintenance around her home. Once departing SoCal we were […]

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We again find ourselves camped along the shores of California’s Salton Sea. There is something about this place that draws us here. I am not sure if it is the stark harsh environment, the incredible amount of diverse bird life or its unique history with Southern California, it is not like any other place we know. […]

Read more "This Could Go On Forever"

The skies had cleared, January was over and our world now looked very different. Living in Alaska for over 40 years has refined our appreciation of wide open spaces and clear blue skies. After spending all of January camped in SoCal in my mom’s backyard, the home of the  intense paced lifestyle, we decide it is time […]

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  For 3 months we drifted across the heartland of Canada and down through the midwestern states of America. We visited many new places, ate some unusual and delicious foods and met some super friendly people. 2017 had been a great year for us. It wasn’t until late December as we crossed the Arizona / California border that […]

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“Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much” Franklin Delanor Roosevelt The story of the Blues in Mississippi and Louisiana is an amazing tale and if one really makes an effort to delve into its rich history one must have time to spare. In our last post we began our journey […]

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It was now November and Denise’s birthday was fast approaching. Denise is a major Blues fan and after very brief discussions we head south to join Highway 61, the Blues Highway in Memphis. It is also known as the Great River Road since it closely parallels the mighty Mississippi. Our journey from Cleveland to Memphis was 800 miles.  Once […]

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Turning south for the first time in a month we depart Michigan’s UP and cross the mighty Mackinac Bridge trying our best to stay ahead of the impending winter weather. Following the west coast of Lake Michigan we pass through beautiful farm country and coastal resort towns. The colors continue to be brilliant but in […]

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  The view ahead looked as though someone was spinning the road in a kaleidoscope of colors that changed from green to red to orange to yellow and back again. We were not hallucinating, we were just in Michigan. “It is one of the prettiest places in the world”. —Henry Ford, 1920’s—  “Nowhere, probably on the continent, is the fall […]

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We were on a mission. Our goal was to witness first hand the fabulous fall colors in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and to visit Denise’s birthplace in the small town of Munising. This excursion has been on our to do list for many years. To reach Michigan before the fall colors disappeared we were […]

Read more "A very long drive indeed"

It was quite a summer. Upon returning in May to our home in Denali we were immediately reminded of the responsibilities and work associated with living in a sticks and bricks setting. After 7 months of freely wandering the back roads of America and Canada the return to a stationary life style is always a major […]

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As the big dogs disappeared into the deep grass it was obvious just how much they enjoyed chasing each other through the lush green field. The only way we could see where they were was when the tips of their tails occasionally bobbed along the top of grass, it was good to back in a land of green.  While hiking through […]

Read more "All It Took Was Water"

Currently we are back at our Alaskan basecamp enjoying the non-stop daylight of summer and spending our time gardening, hiking with the pups, BBQing with friends and hammering metal in the shop. Life is good. The 7 glorious months we spent last winter wandering the warmer regions of the lower 48 states are now just […]

Read more "Inside the Forbidden Kingdom"

My neck was sore from staring out the driver’s side window.  Struggling to keep my eyes focused on the road ahead I gazed longingly to the left at what I consider to be my home range of mountains, the High Sierra.  Even though we live in Alaska, the land of big mountains, the Sierra Nevada is what John Muir called a […]

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We found ourselves parked at a Love’s truck stop in Tehachapi Pass California waiting for the arrival of our friends the Motsko’s. The sun was shining, life was good. Currently residing near Bend Oregon Mark and Phyllis have spent almost all of their careers living in some of America’s most beautiful and remote National Parks working as backcountry […]

Read more "Skirting The Fringe Of Humanity Tour"

After several hours of driving west into a stiff head wind the dogs suddenly awoke as we decelerated down the freeway off ramp near Bowie AZ. Looking over we saw the space we had just vacated in the long string of fast moving semis already filled with another truck…. like we weren’t even there………. It was good to […]

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Ignoring a possible $5000 fine the big dogs waded into the Rio Grande River and headed south towards Mexico. Fortunately the Border Patrol missed seeing them as they later waded back to the US side of the river. This post finds us still in Texas wandering hundreds of miles south of Austin into the wide open deserts and […]

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It was just after 9:00 pm as we cruised along the busy downtown boulevard.  The sounds of live music reverberated from both sides of the avenue as people meandered from club to club sampling the many varieties of music. Stopping for a red light we pulled up alongside a horse drawn carriage and the pups immediately began to […]

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We had traveled east for days across the arid deserts of California, Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas doing our best to stay just ahead of distant rain squalls, thankfully only experiencing them in our rear view mirrors. Our primary mission – to escape the waves of flash flood producing storms drenching the western states by driving to […]

Read more "“Back to the Basics” Luckenbach Texas"

Rain clouds were forming as we hiked up a 2′ wide canyon with 300′ walls on either side consisting of soft mud, we were deep inside flash flood country.  If it started to rain hard we would have to run to stay ahead of a wall of water…. a flash flood.  But the pups were […]

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