A Guide to Bako National Park, Borneo Updated March 2024, A Guide to Bako National Park, Borneo was originally written in April 2018 Wanna experience close encounters with wildlife, incredible jungle trekking opportunities, laze on desolate beaches, see the rare and endangered Proboscis Monkey, and want it to be easy and inexpensive to reach? Then Bako National Park is a […]
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Visiting Byron Glacier, Alaska Updated March 2024, Visiting Byron Glacier, Alaska was originally written in February 2020 Byron Glacier is one of the easiest to access glaciers in the Anchorage vicinity, about an hour and 10 minutes drive south of Anchorage, not far beyond the beautiful town of Girdwood. A viewpoint for the glacier is accessible from the Byron
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How to get to the Mendenhall Ice Caves Updated March 2024, How to get to Mendenhall Ice Caves was originally written in February 2016 Hands down one of the most magical things I’ve done in the world? Joining the ice worms under the surreal, icy blue world of a glacier. The network of cerulean ice caves
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Sperlonga: Lazio Region’s Best Kept Italian Secret Updated March 2024, Sperlonga: Lazio Region’s Best Kept Italian Secret was originally published in May 2020 Looking to bask in the Italian la dolce vita? Sperlonga is likely the perfect place for you. Truth be told, until I was temporarily living in the nearby town of Terracina a couple of
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16 Best Day Hikes near Anchorage, Alaska Updated March 2024, 16 Best Day Hikes near Anchorage, Alaska was originally written in June 2018 Visiting, new to, or just looking for something different to do in Anchorage? Here are 16 Anchorage day hikes to get you up and outside. These Anchorage day hikes range from short and easy
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Visiting Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Nevada Visiting Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Nevada was originally published in 2024 On my most recent to my parents (who live in Pahrump, Nevada now), we made a pit stop by the Ash Meadows Wildlife Refuge on our way to Death Valley National Park to go
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How To Edit Northern Lights Photos Updated March 2024, How to Edit Northern Lights Photos was originally written in July 2017 This is the final installment of my ‘How to Shoot the Aurora’ series, where I explain what is aurora, what gear you need to capture the aurora, how to shoot it, and how to edit
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Panjakent-Samarkand Border Crossing Between Tajikistan & Uzbekistan Updated March 2024, The Panjakent-Samarkand Border Crossing Report Between Tajikistan & Uzbekistan was originally written in December 2019 Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have many beefs with each other, which I am not going to go into in this blog post. In 2018 with some thawing of bureaucratic ties between the
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Long Dong Silver, Utah: A Hilariously Named Hike Off of Highway 24 Updated March 2024, Long Dong Silver, Utah: A Hilariously Named Hike Off of Highway 24 was originally published in October 2023 If you’ve been following along on all my other Utah posts from my springtime road trip along Utah Highway 24 (okay, let’s
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10 Days in Socotra: The Most Alien Looking Place on Earth Updated March 2024, 10 Days In Socotra was originally written in June 2017 The island you have to see to believe, an island like nowhere else. This is Socotra Socotra is an out-of-this-world island sitting within the four-island Socotra Archipelago in the Arabian Sea. The island
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