Tuesday 5/24 – Fairbanks
We woke up in Anchorage this morning and headed for the airport for a very short flight to Fairbanks. We had stayed right near the airport and the view of the mountains was pretty spectacular View from the Hyatt Place…
Smallworld Photos
Collect Memories, Not things
Smallworld Photos
Collect Memories, Not things
Shawn
Monday May 23rd Trip to Anchorage
Today was a travel day. We headed to the airport in Philadelphia at around 10:00 for a 2:15 flight. We had a ton of luggage. As hard as we tried we just couldn’t get it down to a more manageable…
Alaska 2022
Sunday May 22 We got up early today to finish packing. The packing is a bit more careful due to the nature of the trip. We will spend a week on land, hiking, landing on glaciers, and in warmer areas.…
Denver
We decided to take a detour on our way to Denver to see the Royal Gorge Bridge before we left the Colorado Springs area. It is south of Colorado Springs, but we had all day to get to Denver. The…
Colorado Springs Day 2
We woke up in Colorado Springs in time to grab some breakfast and head over to take the Cog train up to Pikes Peak. The depot for the train was not too far from the hotel through a cute little…
Colorado Springs
The road between Aspen and Colorado Springs is as much of an attraction as the towns are themselves. We decided to take Independence Pass to get between the two cities. About 10 miles out of Aspen Conrad had a stop that…
Aspen
We got up early and went to the main dining room for brunch. The spread was really amazing. They had anything that you could possibly want and everything was portioned in small servings so that you could try lots of…
Estes Park to Vail across Trail Ridge Road
We set out this morning for Vail but through Rocky Mountain National Park using trail ridge road. This is the highest paved highway in the US. We left the Alpine Ridge Estates motel where we stayed. It was very basic…
Philadelphia to Denver and Estes Park
We decided to stay at the Marriott on Friday evening so that we could just walk over to the airport gates and go. We had dinner there at the restaurant on site and breakfast in the morning. We always sit…
6/21/21 – Tahoe traveling home
We woke up to find that our flights had been delayed out of Reno. Conrad and I and Conrad and Steph were still able to go from Reno to Phoenix but Cody and Kasey were rerouted to Dallas because they…
6/20/21 – Tahoe Day 3
On Sunday we had tickets to ride the Gondola. Conrad and I went by ourselves as soon as they opened and the kids slept in and went a little later. We rode the Gondola to the midpoint and got off…
6/19/2021 Tahoe Day 2
We woke up early and took a walk into the little square since we were still on east coast time. The stores were mostly closed and it was cool and quiet but we did get a latte at Starbucks. We…