Our summer vacation in 2017 was spent traveling for 2 months in our camper van. We started in Sausalito CA (our home) traveled north through BC (on the Cassier Highway), the and a bit of the Yukon. At Haines Junctions …
Sportsmobile Sprinter 4×4 – a year and a half post purchase
We’ve had this van now for close to a year and a half, we picked it up in April of 2018. We had it on order for about 15 months at Sportsmobile West and that was painful, but the wait is …
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Philadelphia to San Francisco – courtesy Amtrak
We love traveling by train. It’s slow, will take you possibly 10 times as long to get there as by plane, the train cars are usually outdated, the food is…not great, you rarely get to where you’re going on time. …
San Francisco to Haines Alaska Itenerary
When planning this trip I so wished I could have read about someone who had a similar plan, so I’m sharing what we did as it worked perfectly for us incase you’ve got a similar trip on your planning list. …
Sportsmobile vs. Roadtrek
Ok, here it is. Our personal comparison. 2016 Roadtrek Zion – Dodge Promaster (21ft) vs. 2014 Sportsmobile – Mercedes Sprinter EB (22ft) Our first camper van was a 2001 Eurovan, we took a few roadtrips in our van, …
Traveling the Cassiar Highway
We spent four days on the Cassiar Highway traveling north. One full day we spent on the side trip to Hyder Alaska / Stewart BC and the Salmon Glacier. The salmon were not running yet, it was mid June 2017, …
Salmonberry shortbread
We had a campsite in Sitka Alaska that was surrounded by ripe Salmonberries, we were warned of a brown bear who was also residing in nearby who was in the campground as well, but we didn’t run into him. On …
Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska
Our first day in Haines we went about exploring the town and found ourselves in the office of Mountain Flying Service we knew very little about the area but that we wanted to see the nearby Glaciers. We learned that the …
Heath Travels 