Category - Travel

I love this incredibly simple, yet powerful and visual idea for reinforcing daily focus on long-term goals. At last! Something to do with that glossy wall calendar and those squeaky color markers that I never use! (Via Lifehacker).

For those who'd like to see a few photos of our Alaskan Adventure, I've posted a small photoset on Flickr. To view 'em, just click here.

While it's on my mind: before leaving on our Alaskan cruise, we saw several articles in the popular press about iPhones in Alaska. In short: the media is telling people that the iPhone won't work in Alaska, that there's no AT&T coverage in...

Ketchican holds the title of "America's Rainiest City" by virtue of receiving more than a hundred inches of rainfall per year. According to natives, only one in five days in sunny. Our uncanny weather luck continued, then, during our visit to...

Downtown Juneau -- clustered, conveniently enough, right smack around the piers where the cruise ships dock -- features a delightful collection of technicolor storefronts as gaudy and artificial as anything you'll find in a Disney park. But as we...

10. Blue Coco Mojitos. Rum. Lime. Mint. Ice. What's not to like? 9. Casual conversations with other passengers. We're sharing a dinner table with a very liberal Unitarian Universalist minister and his wife -- a warm, passionate, and dedicated...

Today, we docked in Skagway. (Who names these cities, by the way?) No skags were in sight -- or, if any were there, we couldn't see 'em due to the thick, white fog that reduced visibility to a few feet in front of our faces. For the same reason, the...

As we approached the Hubbard Glacier today, the fog parted, the clouds rolled back, and we found ourselves standing on the bow of the ship, blinking at the bright, clear sky. The Glacier. I've seen pictures of glaciers, and I always imagined them to...