Many Glacier Day 2 – 8/29/2026

We woke before sunrise this morning and got some pictures as the sun started to fall across the mountains in the distance beyond the lake. It was really beautiful. The hotel has an early buffet breakfast which was perfect for…

West Glacier Day 3 – 8/27/2026

Today we decided to take a short 3 mile hike to Hidden Lake Overlook, recommended by Mo our Glacier Guides guide. We had to drive about 2/3rds of the way down going to the sun road to reach the Logan…

Glacier Day 2 – 8/26/26

This morning we met our guide Mo in the parking lot of our hotel. She was 24, adorable, and very experienced, We had decided with her to take the St. Marys Trail, going from the St. Mary’s trail head to…

Sandpoint to Glacier Day 1 – 8/25/2026

Today we left Sandpoint headed for Glacier National park where we are staying at the Glacier Guides Lodge in West Glacier. We checked out of our AirBnB in Sandpoint around 8:30 after having our last breakfast at Evans Brothers coffee.…

Sandpoint – 8/24/26

With Cody and Kasey gone Conrad and I had the day to ourselves. We did our usual walk down to Evans Brothers coffee first thing in the morning and then came back to the house and pretty much relaxed. We…

Sandpoint – 8/23/26

We started our day at Evan’s Brothers coffee again for a nice breakfast sandwich and coffee. We headed back to the house and hung out in our nice little backyard until everyone else was up and ready to venture out.…

Sandpoint – 8/22/2026

Conrad and I got up around 6 and headed over to Evan’s Brothers coffee which we had visited the last time we were here. It’s a really fun little coffee shop a few blocks from the house. They have fantastic…

Travel day to Sandpoint – 8/21/26

We headed to the airport last night because our flight was early and it’s just so much easier to stay at the Marriott at PHL. Before we left last night we had really bad thunderstorms but they cleared by about…

Heading home – 6/3/2026 and 6/4/2026

Our journey home included a flight on Airlink back to Johannesburg, then we picked up some luggage that we had left at the JNB airport so that we didn’t have to carry it to Zimbabwe. We then had a long…

Victoria Falls – 6/2/2026

Our hotel

Today we met Thembie and our driver to go to Victoria falls with a subset of our group. Some of the group had gone to additional game drives in Chobe but we decided to just do the falls and then…

Johannesburg to Zimbabwe – 6/1/2026

Birds at the hotel

Today we departed our hotel in Johannesburg to the airport for a flight to Zimbabwe., We lost a few people from our group but 8 of us continued on. We took a small local airline easyjet to Zimbabwe but the…