Weekend Roady

05/10/2018

Planes, trains and automobiles - yes, all three transportation options converged to make for an incredible whirlwind weekend in the Yukon!

Well, I’ll tell you what I did… Take off Friday before Labor Day and drive 6 hours to Bellingham, Washington after work the night before. Cross the U.S.-Canada border and take Air North…

25/06/2018

This past week I took a trip to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to take in a bit of the World Cup fever!

I believe it was October of last year – Breeah and I had just finalized our Australia plans for the following March. My father and I had a conversation about the final qualifying matches for …

27/04/2018

Had three days waaaay down under in Tasmania, Australia's southernmost state.

I look at the list of some great “side trips” I’ve ventured on, trips-within-a-trip, so to speak. The list includes (but is definitely not limited to: Faroe Islands Montserrat (th…

20/12/2017

Rain has been scarcer than usual as we close in on winter in the Pacific Northwest. Meanwhile - we've been making more stops in Northern California, Oregon and Washington...

So as we dive head first into the throes of winter with the upcoming Winter Soltice and Christmas holiday, I would me remiss not to acknowledge my relative lack of updates here, especially since th…

29/09/2017

Took a trip to the site of the very first Ghost Adventures episode in Virginia City, Nevada

Every now and then I may find that my journey take me, well, out of this world and into the paranormal. Breeah and I took our second-ever road trip together out to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and stay…

21/08/2017

Solar Eclipse Totality in Sweet Home, Oregon at 10:17 AM PST

18/08/2017

The Faroe Islands show a completely different slice of the many pies it is part of (Europe, Scandinavia, Denmark). A true hidden gem in the North Atlantic.

As friends and followers may know about me, I often get obsessed about potential destinations based mostly (and sometimes solely) on geographical quirks. “Direction-most” places are obv…

21/07/2017

A heckuva long hike in one of the U.S.'s most beautifully remote places...

Tormod is my crazy Norwegian friend. Maybe that’s just how I see him. Maybe it’s just because he’s as crazy as me. I wish I knew more crazy people like him, the kind that dream up…

12/05/2017

Cuba, Finally...

As a wide-eyed American youngster, I never really expected to experience the streets of Havana, the fumes of Matanzas and the pervasive propaganda of la Revolución. I was always strangely drawn to …

28/03/2017

An Eleuthera, Bahamas vacation isn't complete without visiting the neighboring districts of Spanish Wells and Harbour Island - two completely distinct locales.

Look up Eleuthera on Wikipedia and you get a dual reference – one for the island chain and surrounding cays and the other is the name of the long, very narrow – yet unbroken – isl…

11/03/2017

Eleuthera, Bahamas...what a place to get married in...

I couldn’t have felt more calm. I didn’t expect it. But I’m so glad I feel this way. Those three short sentences epitomize my thoughts on the morning of January 31st, an unbelieva…

14/10/2016

You have to go a long way to get to Adak, Alaska. Its the westernmost town in the U.S.A., and it is closer to Russia than it is to Anchorage or anywhere in the Lower 48.

09/09/2016

Capped off our 50 state journey with a visit to the top of the United States - Barrow, Alaska. What a place to see!

03/08/2016

Voyageurs National Park is located in the wonderfully remote Kabetogama Peninsula of Northern Minnesota.

One thing had remained elusive for me after six-and-a-half years worth of visits to my fiance’s hometown of International Falls, Minnesota. Actually stepping foot in nearby Voyageurs National…

10/06/2016

Saipan, C.N.M.I. - A far flung slice of America that you may not know - but should...

“You know Saipan?” said the station attendant, filling up my rental car. “Little Saipan?” I had just told him I was from the U.S. (“Stateside”, I said, “& #…

06/06/2016

Finally back from Guam. This will be the first of a few posts about the trip.

Take out your guidebooks and look up Guam. You’ll likely not find it. There isn’t a Lonely Planet Guam, nor is there a Foddor’s, Frommer’s, Eyewtiness Travel or Rick Steves&…

13/04/2016

Can the Warriors win No. 73 and make history tonight?

I never got to see Michael Jordan play. I had a chance. Six months after 9/11 I boarded a plane for D.C., hoping to get my first (and only) chance to see #23 play for my Washington Wizards (I& #8217…

12/04/2016

Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial in California received less than 1,000 visitors in 2015...

Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial, Concord, California 963 visitors in all of 2015. Barely three visitors for each of the deceased memorialized here…

24/03/2016

Finally a nice and sunny day in Oregon - time to take in its famous waterfalls!

Oh my gosh does it rain in Oregon! November through early January was nothing but an endless stream of rain from the skies. The sun barely crept out.

31/12/2015

What are some of your resolutions for travel in 2016?

It is that time of year once again! A time to reflect on my past year of travel while looking back on those resolutions I made some 365-odd days ago... This year has been quite possibly the most he...

11/08/2015

One more chance to see a couple less-notable (but not less-interesting) sites in Maryland before I move...

Hello Strangers.In case you've wondered where I've been, well, I'm glad that I'm important enough to wonder about. That said, life has - so to speak - occurred, and its taking me to the state of Or...

02/07/2015

Travelers are bound to encounter some misadventures when they try to get all the way to Chichen Itza from D.C. (and NYC) in one three-day weekend. We made it to Chichen Itza (proof is in the photos), but it wasn't all easy...

I've squeezed a heck of a lot of activities, driving and flying in the span of a two or three-day weekend. My good friend Sean Nickley (of a previous guest post here on Weekend Roady) and I managed...

03/06/2015

Meet the Pearl Islands (and Contadora in particular), home of many a survival reality show...

The Pearl Islands. You may know them from three seasons of Survivor (and more recently, NBC's foray into Survivor-esque reality TV with the Bear Grylls-hosted The Island). Did you also know that li...

14/04/2015

Michigan's Upper Peninsula may well just be the most remote slice of the U.S. as far as the Lower 48 is concerned.

I'm now convinced that the U.P. (Michigan's Upper Peninsula) may be about as far as one can get from the Lower 48 and still be in the United States (sans Alaska and Hawai'i, of course) Yes, yes, Mi...

07/04/2015

Free those travel souvenirs! Give them some air! Display them proudly! I collect patches when I travel, here's what I got so far...

How many of you have wandered into a gift shop and purchased a souvenir that maybe, for at least most of you, has sat in a box somewhere, long forgotten? *RAISES HAND* I'm here to change that habit...

26/03/2015

Looking past all the politics here...Would you drive this road? (I vote YES)

London to New York City by car? It could happen if the head of Russian Railways has his way.

26/03/2015

Winter travel in wintry places can still be a lot of fun, you just have to know where to go...

Any way you slice it, it's been a long winter. Living in the east coast, we've experienced an seemingly unnatural amount of snow and cold this season. Even earlier this month, parts around D.C. wer...

25/02/2015

Pigs are apparently quite buoyant and are also avid drinkers of Diet Coke...

Big Major Cay could be one of any of the hundreds of uninhabited islands that dot the Bahamas, except for one thing, it has pigs (and only pigs). Yes, about 20 or so wild pigs make Big Major...