We took the 200 mph Shinkansen (bullet train) to Kyoto. I booked three nights at a traditional wooden home called a “machiya”. Made...

In Japan it is considered rude to talk loudly in public places. On the street amongst hundreds or even thousands of people, there's no...

Your family may have taken one of those old-timey photos at a county fair or maybe Knott’s Berry Farm. To me it looked fun to dress up...

We spent 7 days in Tokyo. Enough time to see the most popular parks and temples and many, many shopping areas. With 40 million people,...

I was the only member of our family to have NEVER visited Japan. And I am full Japanese (although JA, Japanese American). Zack, Keita and...

Here at Locust Point we’re many miles from any cell signal. We knew that would be the case so it was a good place to test the Starlink...

We are camped at the north rim of the Grand Canyon. The draw is to mountain bike the 22 mile Rainbow Rim Trail. October is the perfect...

This is the last stop on our adventure. It was such a great experience on so many levels. Dawn is a wonderful travel partner. Open to...

The sky here is a bit smoky/hazy preventing clear views of these dramatic peaks. Lots of wildlife to see if you search. Pronghorn, elk,...

Yellowstone NP Have visited here 20 years ago but it still amazes us. The geysers and thermal pools don’t seem real. The colors are made...

Waterton Lakes is Glacier’s sister park in Canada, as they are connected geographically. We entered Glacier from the east and made our...

Another jewel of a park. The town is much smaller than Banff but the scenery is equally large. The Prince of Wales Hotel has the most...

This am, in the parking lot at the Banff Hotel, a guy asked me if I had a hammer, because the key to his car didn’t work and he wanted to...

This blog should have come before Jasper and Banff, but without wifi it fell through the cracks. Liard Hot Springs was something we...

Have gotten behind in the blog. We’ve been traveling south on the Alaskan Highway into Alberta. Jasper National Park is large and it...

On a tip from a camp neighbor, we headed north into the Yukon to Tombstone Mountain, sometimes called the Patagonia of Canada. It was...

We are in remote Tombstone Territorial Park, aka the Patagonia of Canada. It’s reached via the Dempster Highway, which continues north...

We were in the Northern Lights “sweet spot”: Whitehorse, Yukon. Outside of town, away from city lights, facing north, parked in a...

From Prince Rupert we headed east along the Skeena River, to Terrace. We hired a fishing guide and got on to many, many sockeye and coho....

Before we left home I made plans for the first 6 weeks of our trip. It turned out to be a good idea (thanks Jane Helmer), as reservations...