My husband and I have entered into an entirely new form of travel: travel with baby. Our 4:30 AM wakeup call for the flight to Anchorage was the first of the many rude awakenings we had on this trip. The reality of traveling with a 6-month-old required a drastic change in the way we normally do things. Gone were our plans to hike 15 miles a day in …

Most people who know me know that I hate to fly. The smaller the plane is, the more worried I become. So all of you travelers who ask me how big the plane is that flies between Quito and the Galapagos --- I know why you're asking and I feel your pain! The smallest touch of turbulence and I'm clutching the seat in front of me, convinced we …

Google "largest protected areas on earth". Wikipedia will tell you that this one is 18th largest on earth and most of the ones higher up on the list are marine reserves. For protected areas of land, Wrangell-St. Elias is the 5th largest. It's just massive in scale. It has the 2nd tallest icefall in the world - second only to the …

We tried something that is particularly en vogue right now: camper van life. On Instagram, you'll see #vanlife just about everywhere. It's what all the cool kids are doing these days: quitting their jobs, buying a cool old Volkswagen Westfalia and hitting the road. And then they post photos on social media to make us all jealous. I'm …

One thing I was not exactly prepared for was the timing of autumn in Alaska. I knew that it was supposed to be chilly and wet for our trip, but extrapolating that to what that means for our travelers hit me upon my return. Whereas in the contiguous US, autumn starts mid-September or beginning of October (depending on your latitude), in Alaska, …