Hiking the Chief

After our trip to see Brandywine Falls, we stopped back at our Air BnB to eat dinner and to drop off the girls. Then, Connor and I decided to go see Shannon Falls and to hike prominent mountain in Squamish – the Stawamus Chief. It was a 15-minute drive to the parking lot near the…

Gold Panning near the Silver Bow Basin

Our next stop was Juneau where we hopped on a tour bus to go gold panning! Our tour guide entertained us with lots of Alaska puns as we made our way to the panning location. Once we stopped, he taught everyone to pan for gold using dirt that had been collected from another location earlier…

The Hubbard Glacier

The next highlight of our cruise was the Hubbard Glacier. Dawn and I had been on a similar cruise where we saw it years ago. We recalled icy wind, bitter-cold temperatures, and not getting very close to the glacier. It was SO funny because we got everyone bundled up only to go outside and feel…

The Start of Our Alaskan Cruise

After a couple of nights in Idaho, we headed on to Tacoma to drop Bucky off at a kennel. Along the way, we spent a night at a nice little RV park in Stanfield, Oregon (at a Pilot truck stop of all places) called, you guessed it: Pilot RV Park. When we were unhooking, I…

The sixth time’s the charm?

The next day, we got around and resolved to try to get help with our trailer brakes in Abilene…AFTER we secured all the stuff that fell down during our first 100 miles the night before. I actually had to break out my cordless nail gun to reaffix some trim pieces that had fallen down –…