What a fun 6+ weeks this has been. We now just have to visit 5 more Parks in Alaska. Rangeley and I (Gary) will drive back to Phoenix starting tomorrow after dropping Elizabeth off at the airport in the morning. We continue to find out of the way places to enjoy our Parks with Rangeley. Glacier is very strict on dogs, but we found several places to be alone so he could swim. We also visit the much more dog friendly state parks in the areas we visit. Rangeley is also very well behaved making it easy to let him go loose. As always, click the link below to read about our latest adventures.
Traveling to Glacier
We have spent the past 3 days driving west on US Route 2, on our way to Glacier National Park. We continue to love rural America, the people and sights. Click the link below to follow Rangeley’s adventures.
Voyageurs National Park
Our penultimate park visit (not counting Alaska), with only Glacier to go. Another beautiful area of the country that we had not been to. Visiting all the Parks is really about the journey and all the sites and people we see and meet. The flooding here in Northern Minnesota is causing all kinds of problems. Many resorts are partially underwater and tourists are cancelling their reservations to come here. The water has risen several inches since we have been here and no one knows when the levels will drop to a reasonable level. Hopefully they get some dry weather for the next several weeks. We have joked with several locals that it would be nice if we could bring this extra water with us to the west.
We leave this morning to drive the 1,134 miles to western Montana, then we will have 1,300 miles home. Thanks for reading along with us.
Isle Royale
Another wonderful National Park. Rangeley had to stay on the mainland while we had fun on the island. This entry includes our other adventures in Michigan. Click below to read and see.
Vermont and Ohio
Rangeley continues to be a rock star traveler. He is amazingly adaptable. He had his first exposure to an infant, meeting two sub 3 month olds. He was great playing with our 3 year old Amish friends daughter and our niece’s older kids (sub 10 years old). Click the link below to see the pictures and read Elizabeth’s stories of our continuing adventures.
Cruising Virginia with Elizabeth
Rangeley and I picked up Elizabeth last Saturday and we have been cruising around Virginia enjoying the beautiful scenery and wonderful people around the Appalachian Trail. Click the link below to read our stories and view the pictures.
Roaming Rangeley 2022
Rangeley and I (Gary) took off from Phoenix 12 days ago. We pick up Elizabeth in Roanoke, VA tomorrow as we continue to roam about, exploring the good ole US of A. The link below will bring you to our page with a recap of what we have done as well as pictures. We do plan to visit the last 3 National Parks on our list that are not in Alaska – Isle Royale, Voyageurs and Glacier on this trip. I do realize Virginia is a bit out of the way. But like I told my mother, we need maple syrup, so we are headed to Vermont to pick some up. Figure we may as well visit family while we are up there. (My mom and two sisters live in Vermont.) Maybe it is the other way around, get syrup while visiting family.
Gates of the Arctic Video
I have created a 10 minutes video of our time at Iniakuk Lodge, north of the Arctic Circle. I uploaded it to YouTube this morning. We have never really used video in our travels, but will continue to learn. Hope you enjoy. Click on the link below to view it.
Gates of the Arctic
What an amazing experience. This is by far our largest page, so may take time to download everything. Enjoy – we certainly did. Click the link below.
Denali National Park
We were not able to fly into Denali National Park, but we still had a great 48 hours in Talkeetna. It snowed almost the entire time we were there. It was classic beautiful winter, no wind, mid 20s and about a foot of new snow, all on top of tons of existing snowfall. Throw in the foot while we were in Anchorage and we have seen nearly 2 feet of freshly fallen snow.
On the train north we spent two hours inside the park, so we did officially spend time inside the park boundaries. We did see several moose while in the park as well. Now we are off to the true cold. Sunday’s forecast in Fairbanks is for a low of -18 and we will be 200 miles north of that.
We did see the northern lights on the train as we arrived in to Fairbanks. Elizabeth and I went for a walk from our hotel at midnight to view them. Pictures will be in our next post. Enjoy our Denali link below.
Gary and Elizabeth's Adventures 