This section began in September 1998, brought forth from many road trips of interest. All of the entries are my personal travel journals written to record a vastly changing landscape.

As a child in Alaska, I spent all my summers camping across Alaska and Canada with my parents. Many of my fondest childhood memories involve tents, boats, tundra and alpine plants, berry gathering, tasty fresh fish dinner and scalding hot chocolate.

My husband and Brian are both avid adventurers and frequently travel. When we resided in Portland, Oregon; we took many road trips around the region to explore the exotic environment there. We were absolutely enchanted by the temperate rain forests of the Pacific North West. By traveling to small communities and rural areas we are able to experience the differences in urban/rural life and the changes in the natural environment that are occurring at an alarming pace. Now, back at home in Fairbanks, Alaska we have continued our exploration of this great land in the hope that we can immerse ourselves in the environs we have grown up with and adore. These travelogues are my attempts at capturing my impressions of these journeys and conveying them to others, so that others may experience the changing landscape of the North America. Some of these travelogues are more poetic than others. I am quite proud of my writing on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington State. A photograph of Brian has been included.

I am not receiving any monetary gain from the mentioning of any businesses in these journals, and am not affiliated with them in any way. These journals are non-commercial and attempt at times to be amusing.

This is not Milepo$t or Lonely Planet tm guides, nor does it try to be. This is just the observations of myself. All reviews of resources are personal, and I try to be concise with more important aspects of the trip, such as when it is a good idea to purchase gasoline, side trips that proved interesting, and our reactions to food & lodging along the way, either being good (10) or miserable (0). Such will be the scale for anything worth ranking, such as fishing, berry collecting or road conditions.

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epic Vanished into Nowhere Zen Alaska; voyage along the Dalton Highway, August 2001 [with photos]
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Fall Color at Manley Hot Springs, Alaska September 2001

The Spirit World of Cripple Creek, Alaska September 2001

Transcontinental Adventures December 2000- Portland, Oregon to North Pole, Alaska :

Fishing in Alaska - 2001 Chitna Dip netting, Summer Solstice on the Yukon River, Lower Chatanika

Day trip to Gifford Pinchot National Forest  [photo added 7/2001]

Dreams of the High Plains (Wasco County, Oregon) 5/2000

Recollections of 1997 visit to the Columbia River Valley

Mount Prindle Campground Review, Alaska 4/2000

Report from Wahkiakum County, Washington (S.W.) 2/2000

July 1998: Portland, Oregon, to North Pole Alaska in a 1970 Chevy Chevelle

August-November 1999: Fairbanks, Alaska; to Portland, Oregon in a 1988 Ford Taurus station wagon

1895 Map of Oregon (large)

1895 Map of Alaska (quite large)

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