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dougsmith51
Nov 6, 20214 min read
From Colorado to Virginia
We loved Alaska. We loved Canada. We loved the American West. However, we still needed to get ourselves - and the Ciaowagen - the 2,737...
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dougsmith51
Oct 23, 20214 min read
Colorado Side Trip
The Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta was the last “scheduled” event of our 2021 travels. Rather than just heading straight back to Virginia,...
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dougsmith51
Oct 17, 202111 min read
South to the Fiesta
NOTE: We’re backing up in time from the recent blog post about our visit to the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta. The post before that one...
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dougsmith51
Oct 9, 20215 min read
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta
The Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta is the largest hot air balloon festival in the world, and one of the world's most photographed events....
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dougsmith51
Oct 3, 20219 min read
The Canadian Rockies
When we finally reached the end of the Alaska Highway in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, we were only halfway down the length of BC, so...
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dougsmith51
Sep 12, 20218 min read
Alaska - The Last Frontier
The Last Frontier – at least that’s what the Alaska license plates say. It reminded us that the Alaska portion of our trip was nearing...
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dougsmith51
Aug 20, 20219 min read
Eastern Alaska
Much of the Alaskan tourist action takes place in the Fairbanks to Kenai Peninsula corridor. The eastern part of Alaska gets fewer...
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dougsmith51
Aug 10, 20217 min read
Geezers Gone Wild
Having escaped death-by-tsunami in Homer, we traveled to the other side of the Kenai Peninsula to the town of Seward. As the crow flies,...
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dougsmith51
Aug 3, 202111 min read
Glaciers and Earthquakes and Bears, Oh My!
Leaving the Denali area, we headed south to Anchorage. While Anchorage is the largest city in Alaska, TripAdvisor’s list of...
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dougsmith51
Jul 22, 202112 min read
Denali Days
NOTE: This is our third trip to Alaska. We first flew there in 1985, the year after we were married, and spent three weeks touring Alaska...
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dougsmith51
Jul 13, 20218 min read
The Inside Passage
As we've noted in other posts, at the time we were hoping to travel up to Alaska the Canadian border was still closed (and is currently...
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dougsmith51
Jul 1, 20217 min read
The Big Sky, Famous Potatoes, and Evergreen States
We left North Dakota and headed southwest into Montana, the Big Sky state. We had some big distances to drive over the next...
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dougsmith51
Jun 23, 20215 min read
North Dakota, Our 50th State
OK, technically, North Dakota was the 39th state to join the union. However, it was also the one state that neither Jeannette nor Doug...
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dougsmith51
Jun 15, 20213 min read
Boundary Waters
The Ciaowagen enjoyed a rest from our travels in Duluth, while we flew back home to Virginia to attend a Smith family reunion. It was the...
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dougsmith51
Jun 3, 20214 min read
The U.P.
Michigan is one of those states that is divided into two, non-touching parts (ironically, Virginia is another). Having spent a few days...
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dougsmith51
May 29, 20215 min read
Valley and Dune
NOTE: Now that we're traveling again, we'll be dropping blog posts every week or two. If you'd like to be notified when a new one drops,...
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dougsmith51
May 15, 20212 min read
2021 Travel Part 1: North by Northwest
Back in the day (17 months ago), we had planned to travel to Alaska and back during 2020. Unfortunately, COVID-19 happened and we had to...
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dougsmith51
May 11, 20211 min read
2021 Destination Reveal
We are taking off in the Ciaowagen around May 18, and will be gone five-and-a-half months this time. Where are we headed? It's to a state...
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dougsmith51
May 7, 20213 min read
Ciaowagen in the Shop
When we headed west in the Ciaowagen in April 2019, we thought we might travel for a year tops. That initial trip turned into a...
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dougsmith51
Apr 29, 20211 min read
Photo Memories From 2018 and 2019
We published a "favorite photos" summary blog post at the end of 2020. However, we realized we had not done the same for our Ciaowagen...
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