Please note: My page has moved to http://www.travelaroundwithkris.com - so follow me there as there will only be reposts on this site randomly throughout the month. New articles are being posted at the new site - with ino on Germany, Portugal and Spain added most recently. The otherworldly vistas at Mono Lake are stunning. The …
Yellowstone, which is the first US National Park, has dozens of waterfalls and cascades. They range from small (10-20 feet tall) up to 300 feet tall (Yellowstone Falls). Some of the waterfalls are right near roads, others a short easy walk from large parking lots, and others only reachable after minutes or hours of hiking, …
In the basement of the Casa de Balboa Building in Balboa Park, there is an exceptional and huge miniature train display. The San Diego Model Railroad Museum is one of the world's largest model railroad displays. There are both HO and N scale displays, and there are many humorous things hidden in the worlds created …
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Skagway - Dog Sled Adventure My blog has moved. So if you enjoy it, check it out at it's new and improved location - Travelaroundwithkris.com When in Alaska during the summer, you can pay a fortune to be helicoptered out to a snowy area where you can be pulled by sled dogs. Or, you can …
One of my favorite things to see when visiting natural areas is all the animals. The deer here clearly don't care that we are watching them. The Yosemite/Sequoia/King's Canyon area has many cute little animals like this ground squirrel. You may even see a bear or two. …
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I found out today that there is a corn maze in Chicago (like actually in the city of Chicago, not one of those "Chicago" events that are in Naperville, or Schaumberg, or Idaho) starting next week that somewhere in the maze there is a bar. And there is ax throwing (which I have found to …
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That's the day the sun lines up with our east-west streets so you can get stunning pictures of the sunset lined with skyscrapers. https://www.npr.org/2019/09/24/763662788/the-solar-spectacle-that-is-chicagohenge?utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR3eTUgpH9Wq6ZHcgmZISJCm2c5ncib2sfW3vSz6cIlIKo_ZxzL88Ao9-B0
Alaska Denali National Park and Preserve Gates of the Arctic National Park Glacier Bay National Park Katmai National Park and Preserve Kenai Fjords National Park Kobuk Valley National Park Lake Clark National Park Wrangell-St. Elias National Park American Samoa National Park of American Samoa Arizona Grand Canyon National Park Petrified Forest National Park Saguaro National …
When I travel, I often find myself attracted to old graveyards and cemeteries. I didn't even realize that those two words referred to different things until on one Graveyard Tour, (which I had joined because I wanted to go to the cemetery) and the tour guide explained that they are different things and we weren't …
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The Chicago Architecture Foundation's Chicago River Cruise is great. Several companies offer tours, but the CAF tour is generally recognized as the best one to take because of the knowledge of the docents from the CAF. The docents on the boat during the hour and a half tour point out many architectural highlights in Chicago …
The Mirror Lake Trail is about 2 miles long (5 miles if you walk around the lake too). Mirror Lake is a seasonal lake. Much of the year the lakebed is a meadow, but in late spring, the snowmelt fills the area and Mirror Lake is stunning. The trail is easy, but …
These two parks are located adjacent to each other in the Sierra Nevada mountains and are quite similar. Both parks have mountains, grasslands, caverns, river valleys, canyons, and sequoias. Most of the land in the two parks is a roadless wilderness, but there are many trails you can take if you want to explore more. …
The people in Key West are a little bit odd and they like it that way. It's remote (although not as remote as it used to be), with only one way in and out and many residents have been there since before it was so "easily accessible" One part of Key West I particularly enjoyed …
Unusual adventure: Zip-line in a cave (unique experience in Louisville area) Having zip-lined in a couple places already, I was excited to find out about an in-cave zip-line experience. This is available just outside Louisville Kentucky and is the world's only fully-underground zip-line course. Mega-zips is a really fun experience. If you go: make sure …
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So you are going to Ketchikan, what should you do? There are many activities you can set up in terms of hiking, kayaking, sailing, and wildlife viewing that are outside the city. If you want to stay in the city, there are still good choices. First there is a big Totem Pole center in town …
Continue reading Cruise tips – Ketchikan, Alaska – active and non-active pursuits
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