Position: 48°54’09.4″N 121°54’43.0″W Car camping is distinct among other styles of camping. Backpacking, rightly, has shifted from a 1970s question of how much weight can I carry, to, how much money can I afford to spend on ultralightweight gear? Car …
Position: 48°34’04.8″N 123°28’11.3″W There were two last stops on our Alaska inside passage itinerary. The first stop was Wrangell. Founded by the Russians in 1811 and later named for Ferdinand von Wrangel, chief manager and governor of the Russian-American Company …
Position: 57°03’09.4″N 135°20’13.8″W Icy Strait Point survives on cruise ships. The little hamlet sits at the crossroads of salmon migration in and out of Icy Strait. For years its economy was built around a salmon cannery. When that finally closed, …
Position: 60°00’22.3″N 139°31’32.6″W From Juneau Captain Ward turned the ship back towards the ocean for a couple of “days at sea”. Days at sea is cruise-speak for periods that do not include tying up and allowing the punters time on …
Position: 58°25’37.8″N 134°32’14.8″W Our feet had fully dried out, and an excess of lubberliness filled in around our waistlines. Our respective conditions had grown serious enough that only a spell at sea would ameliorate our symptoms, if not the underlying …
Position: In a clinch This post will come as something of a non-sequitur. But we’re not above that on this blog, now, are we? Having been back in North America for the past six months, I can’t help but notice …
Position: 45°49’54.6″N 122°23’19.9″W There comes a point in the aging process when you might feel you’re running short on time. The time when the endless future of your 20s gives way to the inevitability of destiny. This feeling is underpinned …
Position: Behind the Keyboard Carol, Marlon and I broke the 500-blog barrier a couple of weeks ago. Including this one, between us we’ve published 503 posts and therefore missed the opportunity to draw parallels with the Indianapolis 500 motor race. …
Position: 32°07’40.7″N 118°46’17.5″E Continuing our occasional series on famous sea captains, this week it seems appropriate to delve into a little about Zheng He, China’s Ming dynasty-era admiral and adventurer. Zheng is often regarded as China’s greatest admiral. Beginning in …
