We spent two days at Disneyland and one day at California Adventure Park. We stayed at an RV park with a big swimming pool. We had to get a key from the office to unlock the pool gate. Then we went to Disneyland and had a lot of fun. We went on a lot of rides and saw a lot of characters like Goofy, Pluto, and Daisy. We also saw a parade with a band, dancers and floats.

At Disney we went on rides that Ma screamed on and rides that Ma did not scream on. We went on crazy rides and fun rides, gentle rides and rides that drop. We had loads of fun and came off of rides smiling and soaked from the wet rides like Splash Mountain. One of my favorite rides I went on was the Millenium Falcon. It was fun because I got to shoot lasers and a big missile.

At California Adventure Park we went on the Incredicoaster. It is a rollercoaster that went up and down and did a big loopdeloop. We also went on the Grizzly River Run, which is a wet ride where you sit in a big raft that floats down rapids. When the raft did a big drop Pa’s hat unfortunately flew off his head and landed in the water. Pa was sad after that incident.

Disney was a great way to kick off our journey and now we are moving on. I can’t wait for the next adventure above and beyond!

Time to dust off the old travel blog; we are hitting the road again in May in a new rig for another summer in Alaska.Our last Alaska trip was in 2014 with Ma, Pa, Big Kid and Little Kid in our 2001 Jayco Eagle class C motorhome. This time around it’s just Ma, Pa and Little Kid (now Tween Kid, age 11) for most of the summer because Big Kid (now Adult Kid, age 18) is now in college and has a summer job on campus and won’t be joining us until August. Also, the Jayco Eagle motorhome has been donated to Arizona Public Media and replaced by a 2023 F-150 with a Cirrus 620 camper (Big Blue).

In 2014 we covered most of the places that are on the road system in Alaska, so this time we are starting off with touring Southeast Alaska via the Alaska Marine Highway (what they call the Alaska state ferry system). We will take the ferry from Bellingham WA up to Sitka Alaska, then take ferries to Ketchikan, Prince of Wales Island and Juneau.

From Juneau we will take the ferry to Skagway Alaska for the “Arctic Dash” to the village of Tuktoyatuk, Northwest Territories, Canada, on the coast of the Arctic Ocean. Tuktoyatuk, or “Tuk”, is one of the northernmost communities in the world.

After the Arctic Dash we will meet up with Adult Kid in Anchorage and she will join us for August. Space is very tight in the Cirrus 620 camper, so we will be renting a camper van for her to sleep in for that part of the trip. This part of the trip will include Valdez, the Kenai Peninsula, Kodiak Island (via ferry), and the Anchorage area.

After Adult Kid flies out of Anchorage in late August for a semester abroad in Scotland we will visit Denali National Park and then start the long drive back to Tucson.