Last motorhome trip of the year to Seward, AK.

We decided to try and get one more long weekend in before we had to winterize the motorhome, so we headed down to Seward for a couple of what turned out to be, gorgeous days filled with dramatic light and clouds, fresh snow on the mountains and fall colors still blanketing the hillsides. We love Seward in the off-season when it’s quiet. Sadly, we didn’t see any whales in Resurrection Bay on this trip. Come along.

A bonus trip to Denali National Park.

The weather has been so warm, and the forecast was looking great, so we jumped in the motorhome for a very late season trip to Denali. It’s unheard of for us to be able to go up this late in the year, but blame it on climate change, or just abnormally warm weather this year, we were able to have another 5 full days in Denali where there was absolutely no snow on the ground yet, the Park Road was open all the way out to Teklanika rest stop and it barely got below 32ºf at night.

We took full advantage of the incredible weather. Denali was out on the drive up, the park was gorgeous and we also were there during the height of the moose rutting season—oh yeah, we got right in the middle of a rutting scrum one night.

This trip brought us to 25 days in the park this summer, which is a new record for us. So come along for another ride to our favorite place on earth. Captions below the photos tell the story.

The glory of Fall in Denali.

We had to shorten our last trip to Denali because of the loss of our dog, Xena, so we squeezed in another trip this year and wow, the colors were amazing. What a difference two weeks made. The drive through Broad Pass was beautiful late Thursday afternoon as we headed to the park. Denali was out every day we were there, but this was also by far the fewest animals we’ve seen on a trip. We were scared we might break our streak of seeing a bear every time we visit, but luckily we saw one as we were driving out on Monday morning.

A game-changer for us is that we both had ebikes on this trip. With only 3 transit buses running each day, and COVID restrictions still in place we were glad we had them. We biked 35 miles from the Stoney Dome overlook back to the Teklanika campground two days in a row, and then biked from Tek up Igloo Canyon to the top of Sable Pass and then down to the East Fork River bridge and back for a total of 105 miles of biking over 3 days. It was wonderful.

So come along for a fall tour of Denali. This trip turned out to be all about the scenery.