How to Take Better Photos; the Art of "Seeing"

  In my last post I said anyone could master the “art” of photography and learn to take photos that they were proud of. In today’s post I want to give you some specific things you can do to elevate your “snapshots” (which are great for memories but aren’t really...

How to Plan a Road Trip: Tips 5-7

I’m continuing my series on 12 Road Trip Tips and lessons from our Alaska trip. Before I go on, let me remind you of the previous tips: Break the Trip up into Stages for Planning Purposes. Use maps, books and the internet to plan and find all the interesting things...

More Lessons on Planning a Road Trip

  Today we are going to continue with a review of our Alaska trip and lessons we learned from it. There are many ways to plan a Road Trip, the most common is to just jump in the car and go wherever the wind blows. No doubt that works, and can lead to a lot of...

How to Plan a Road Trip: Lessons Learned from Our Alaska Trip

When you ask someone why they want to live in a van or RV one of the most common answers is because that person has always wanted to travel and see this beautiful country. In fact, most full-timers I talk to say that in their first year they went crazy traveling, they...

The Bear Whisperer

Finally, the moment has come when I tell you all about my time with the bears. Unfortunately, my camera broke and I don’t have any pictures of them, so all I have is words. NOT!! I took over 1500 pictures but I want to spare you all of them so I have whittled it down...

Fly-In Bear Viewing

  Finally, we’ve come to my bear-viewing trip! I took the trip on June 24th but wanted to wait to write about it until I got caught up on all my other blog posts so it came in order. It’s been tormenting me to wait because I loved it so much! This trip is the...