NORTH TO ALASKA

Last week we booked the 'trip of a lifetime', a small-ship cruise in Alaska: Glacier Bay National Park & other incredible sights along the Marine Highway Inside Passage.  We embark July 6th, and after the cruise we'll do some exploring on our own -- probably take the ferry to Prince William Sound and Kenai Fjords, then the train through Denali NP & up to Fairbanks, then 'home' [wherever we leave the truck & trailer while we're gone].


Early July is reportedly the very best time of year, the best possible weather, and the most promise of Orca & Humpback whales, porpoise, puffins, sea lions, etc.  While on the ship we'll be doing frequent junkets/excursions; they provide all the equipment and the guides, including naturalists & marine biologists.  We'll be kayaking and touring in our personal kayaks or inflatable skiffs so we can get up-close-and-personal with the scenery & critters!

We've dreamed of going to Alaska for years, and we're going to see the Best of the Best on this trip.  Taking a small ship rather than a large cruise ship means that we'll travel in fjords and right up to the glaciers -- it promises to be amazing!  

This is the trip: http://www.adventuresmithexplorations.com/discoverers-glacier-country
 

LATE SPRING IN TAOS NM

We moved from Farmington to Taos New Mexico Saturday April 26th.  Absolutely beautiful drive through the northern NM mountains, but it's not quite spring yet.  We've marked the area as a 'must return' when things have greened up, or perhaps in the fall.  We're parked at a lovely rv park in El Prado, which is the northwest edge of Taos.  It's been chilly, with very high winds -- and there was SNOW Saturday night, highly unusual for the last week of April.  We've become such weather-wimps, and we don't like it one darn bit.  We've surely been spoiled with the lovely winter in the south.  Oh well.  Guess I'll paint today :-)
This is the view from our back window Sunday morning.  It's really lovely, in spite of the cold, snow, and wind.

THE MIGRATION CONTINUES . . .

We traveled from Holbrook Arizona to Farmington New Mexico yesterday, Easter Sunday.  We'll be here this week, then in the Taos area for a week, then up to our land in SE Colorado (NE of Trinidad, if you want to look it up), then on up to Boyd Lake SP near Loveland.  We're looking forward to visiting family & friends, and especially witnessing Grandson Justin graduate from Metro State University in Denver -- quite an accomplishment for someone with a high-level spinal cord injury sustained only 5 years ago!  We're so very proud.

A CORNER IN WINSLOW ARIZONA

We passed through the other day; it's one of those 'don't blink or you'll miss it' towns. There was no where we could pull over with our rig so I shot this out the window of the truck. Now we can cross Winslow Arizona off The List!
TAKE IT EASY!