2022 – The Parks Adventurer

2022 Wrap Up Part 2!

Hey there Adventurers! Before I get into my favorite pictures from my travels this year, I need to make a slight addendum to my planned trips in part 1…somehow I missed a huge one! The sidekick and I are prepared to hit Patagonia! This will be a late year trip (summer in the Southern Hemisphere)Continue reading “2022 Wrap Up Part 2!”

2022 Wrap Up Part 1! (Pinnacles National Park on tap!)

Hey Adventurers! This year really blew by! I feel like I wrote this same post not that long ago, but it was 11 months ago! This part 1 is just to share a new booking and provide a look at 2023 as I see it right now! Part 2 will be the rundown of myContinue reading “2022 Wrap Up Part 1! (Pinnacles National Park on tap!)”

Amazing Southwest Airlines CC Offer PSA!

PSA fellow Adventurers! RIGHT NOW you can get a Southwest Airlines Companion pass very easily, provided you meet the appropriate financial requirements and have means to show at least a small side business! This is probably, by orders of magnitude, the absolute best sign on bonus of any credit card around! I did this inContinue reading “Amazing Southwest Airlines CC Offer PSA!”

Alaska: Fairbanks and Denali National Park. Sept, 2022. Part II.

Hey there Adventurers! This is part two of my recent trip to Alaska! In part one I recount the beginnings of the trip in Fairbanks and Chena Hot Springs, and provided some general FYI of traveling throughout the interior of Alaska. Now, it was off to Denali! This makes my second visit to this park,Continue reading “Alaska: Fairbanks and Denali National Park. Sept, 2022. Part II.”

Alaska: Fairbanks and Denali National Park. Sept, 2022. Part I.

Hey Adventurers! I am recently back from my fall Alaskan adventure! Departing from my new norm of separating National Park visits into their own post(s), this will be a singular post (in two parts, evidently.) So this trip was actually booked at about the same time as my late May/early June trip, roughly Feb/March, soContinue reading “Alaska: Fairbanks and Denali National Park. Sept, 2022. Part I.”

Bark Ranger Trip, June 2022

NPS Unit count: 54 Hey there adventurers! Hot on the heels of my epic Alaska adventure, it was time for Bark Ranger Bella to do some exploring! My mother, in Indiana, was closing on a house and moving, so Bella and I went up there, but took some side adventures to and fro! BE SUREContinue reading “Bark Ranger Trip, June 2022”

Alaska, June 2022. Part 3.Days 5/6

Hey adventurers! Thanks for checking out this multi-part series on my most recent trip to Alaska! If you made it through all of them, awesome, and thanks!! If not, and you are interested, you can check out the first two parts of the trip here and here and also my entry on Kenai Fjords NationalContinue reading “Alaska, June 2022. Part 3.Days 5/6”

Alaska, June 2022. Pt. 2 Days 3&4

Hey Adventurers! This entry will be pretty critter heavy and if you are catching this entry and haven’t caught part 1, and want to, go ahead and check that out here! (This entry will be independent of that one, fyi). I had just arrived in Anchorage, visited Seward and taken a boat tour where thisContinue reading “Alaska, June 2022. Pt. 2 Days 3&4”

Alaska, June 2022. Part I, Day 1&2.

Hey there adventurers! I am recently back from my biggest solo adventure yet, and really one of the biggest of them all! When I first went to Alaska in 2017, I was not doing a blog at all other than the pictures I took on my phone and the GoPro videos I took. This tripContinue reading “Alaska, June 2022. Part I, Day 1&2.”

Lake Clark National Park, AK. June 2022

National Park Count: 31 NUMBER THIRTY ONE!???? Holy Cow! Just about 5 years ago I didn’t really even know what the national park scene was all about! If you’d have told me even just 3 years ago that I would now have 31 of the 63 under my belt I would have thought I eitherContinue reading “Lake Clark National Park, AK. June 2022”