AOLN monthly recaps

Bear Maulings, Taliban’s Most Wanted & More Wild Events from 2023 Happy New Year! Here’s to hoping 2024 isn’t a bigger catastrophe than 2023 was (or was that just me?).  I’ve realized I haven’t done one of these since February, oops.  So, as you can imagine, things went off the rails, as per usual.  So […]

February 2023 Update It’s been an eternity since I’ve done one of these posts, actually nearly a year… and a lot has happened since then.  I think the last time I sent off one of these was in April 2022 and I’d just officially started my own expedition company and I had said I was

11 Days with the Travel Blogger from Hell Rather than write up one of my regular (yet irregularly posted) monthly round-ups, I’m going to tell you a story about one of the worst people I’ve ever met, who has subsequently made me think that maybe I don’t want to do a group press trip ever

One Month Down: 2021 This is going to be a short update because I just don’t have a whole lot to update you all on… but here we go… A Return to MacDonald Spit My only “travels”, if you will this month, was on down to Homer and across the bay to stay at Between Beaches on MacDonald Spit.

Good Riddance, 2020 It’s finally the last day of 2020, the longest blur of a year I’ve experienced, and I’m sure I’m not alone here. It’s been a weird one.  But I do hope that 2021 is better for everyone, though I have my doubts as New Years’ is a human construct after all (and

November 2020 Blog Recap I’ve somehow miraculously managed to put two of these quick little blog recaps together two months in a row. This is probably only owing to the fact I haven’t had much going on to distract me seeing that 2020 has been the least travel-y-est year I’ve had in a decade. Mostly

Looking Back on my COVID Summer Break What a peculiar summer eh? When I wrote the last one of these (end of May), I optimistically (very unlike me) thought life would start to return to some bit of normalcy over the summer (clearly I was wrong). Here it is, the end of summer (in Alaska anyway) and

I’m going to keep this one short (plus I don’t have a whole lot to say anyway). From what little time I’ve had to keep up on what all is going on out there- I do know it’s been a crazy month… from states here in the US opening back up (which whether it is

Hey guys, Who would’ve thought the last normal thing I’d do is spend (almost) a month in Yemen? Well, here we are… mid-coronavirus-apocalyptic times. (Sorry if you’re newer-ish around here and don’t know who I am, this is Nicole the person behind this website…) I know it’s been an extremely long time since I’ve sent