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  • Travel Pro-tip: How to Pack Beer to Fly Home in One Piece

    Travel Pro-tip: How to Pack Beer to Fly Home in One Piece

    “How do you pack beer home when you fly?” -My old friend Kyle (readers may know him as the one who married an Iowan named Susannah*) This was the nudge to finally draft this post I’ve had in mind. I hope those of you over 21 find it handy as we head into holiday travel…

  • Monday: Glymur

    Monday: Glymur

    We rose early to drive the two, three hours from Onundarhorn to hike Glymur Falls (3.8 miles, 1,000 ft elevation gain) in the only day forecasted to be sunny on our trip. It meant doubling back the way we came, but fortunately we were booked for two nights in the South. I was dragging, but…

  • 5 Things To Explore in Fairbanks Alaskan Adventures Part 4

    5 Things To Explore in Fairbanks
    Alaskan Adventures Part 4

    This last installment on Alaskan Adventures is packed with travel tips. Enjoy! “To know the wilderness is to know a profound humility, to recognize one’s littleness, to sense dependence, and interdependence, indebtedness and responsibility.” -Howard Zahniser, author of the Wilderness Act of 1964 Downtown Fairbanks was more cosmopolitan than I expected (ok ok, I did…

  • Dog Sledding: Just Short of Magic Alaskan Adventures Part 2

    Dog Sledding: Just Short of Magic
    Alaskan Adventures Part 2

    This blog post is one of a multi-part series on Alaskan adventures near Fairbanks. In 2010 the Alaskan Malamute was named the official state dog of Alaska. Slate.com April 2012 One of many excellent recommendations per our VRBO hosts was to book with Just Short of Magic** for a sled dog ride (a.k.a. mushing), a little drive north of…

  • London!
    Day 2 – Buckingham Palace, Tower of London, Pie & John Snow Pub

     

  • London!
    Day 1 – Arrival

    Special edition blog on travels here: Got to London in the morning, began eating at odd hours almost immediately, and made it to the British Library, home of a nice little collection of hugely historical documents, such as the Magna Carta, various classical composers’ works, Jane Austen’s writing, and Karl Marx, to name only a…

  • Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

    Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

    …because some things are worth trying again after the first time didn’t quite turn out 10 years ago. Roasted Pumpkin Seeds Source recipes: the first search result off google + Food Network combinations Ingredients: Leftover pumpkin seeds from carving 2 medium-large pumpkins Arbitrary Amounts of… Salt Olive Oil Seasoning combinations (amounts to taste): BBQ: brown…