Shawn

Shawn

  • Joined: July 15, 2026
  • Articles: 270

8/4/2019 – Sandpoint

Sunday morning we got up early and checked out of the AirBnB after one last visit to Evans’ Brother’s coffee.  We headed out to Eric and Cindy’s place to actually do the thing that made us come to Idaho in…

8/2/2019 – Sandpoint

Friday 8/2 in Sandpoint Thursday was our travel day. We left home at around 3:30 AM headed to the airport. We met Chris and Linda along the way and reached the airport by 5:00AM The trip was fairly smooth except…

5/19/2019 – Yosemite and trip home

We had originally planned to spend the day on our own in Yosemite seeing the things that we had missed on our tour but we woke up to a snow storm that would cause the park to require chains to…

5/18/2019 – Yosemite

We woke up early and looked outside and decided to look around the resort until it was time for us to take out Winders of Yosemite tour. The area around the cabin was still fairly dark and the sun was…

5/17/2019 – Yosemite

We flew up from LAX on Friday night after I finished my work day in Santa Monica. We flew to San Jose and rented a car to drive into Yosemite. The drive was about 3.5 hours so we arrived late…

8/5/2018 – Machias Seal Island Day 2

Machias Seal Island – Day 2 The second day of our boat trip was beautiful and sunny. We got our Subway sandwiches for breakfast and lunch and headed out to meet Captain Andy and Corey. We really enjoyed the two…

8/4/2018 – Machias Seal Island Day 1

 Puffin Island Day 1 We had booked 2 days for the Puffin Island (Machias Seal Island) tour because they fill up so quickly and they go weather permitting. Since we would only be in Machias for 2 days we wanted…

8/3/2018 – Schoodic

 We left Acadia heading for Machias Maine where we would stay at the Margaretta Inn because we had booked a boat trip out of nearby Cutler Maine with Bold Coast charters.  We decided to drive along the water and through…

8/2/2018 – Acadia and Bar Harbor

 We got up early and had a nice breakfast at the Best Western.  I was suffering from gall bladder issues and had a surgery scheduled but not until we got home so I wasn’t very comfortable sleeping but we made…

8/1/2018 – Bar Harbor

 We arrived in Acadia in the late afternoon of Wednesday August 1. We checked into our hotel which was a very nice Best Western in the park but a distance from downtown Bar Harbor. The hotel was quite nice and…

1/14/2018 – Key West

On our last full day in Key West we decided to visit a wildlife sanctuary nearby. We took a bit of a ride trying to get there because we thought it was a different place a bit farther away but…