Excellent adventures in travel
In November, I spent 2 weeks visiting friends in Cairo. Just before I arrived, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) opened the majority of its galleries as part of a “limited access” program “to test site readiness.” This museum has been a loooong time coming. Conceived as a Hosni Mubarak vanity project back in 2002, … Read more
Dominique, Matt and I spent Sunday on our own, riding the Table Mountain Cable Car and then spending most of the day at the gorgeous Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden. Table Mountain looms over Cape Town at just over 3500 feet. There are lots of hiking trails on the mountain, accessible either by walking up or … Read more
Hello all – Although the date of these posts are mid September- early October 2024, I’m writing them in March 2025. Sorting through 12,000+ photos took a bit longer than anticipated (ahem); coupled with Italian studies, normal life and the exceedingly abnormal dystopian craziness of our times, I’ve found it difficult to focus on fun … Read more
We spent most of Sunday in Bartlett Cove, the only easily accessible part of Glacier Bay National Park. Two hundred years ago, Bartlett Cove was under the snout of the 100 mile long glacier that filled Glacier Bay. Today, the accessible portion is a narrow strip of rocky beach (outfall from the glacier), the estuary … Read more
On Saturday morning, we took one last Alaska boat ride, a 3.5 hour whale watching tour in the Icy Strait. The Icy Strait lies between the Alaska mainland and multiple islands of the Alexander Archipelago. It’s the primary channel for water flowing between the Pacific Ocean and the northern Inside Passage, with currents and tides … Read more