NPS Centennial Post #3–So Cal

Morrow Bay, California on Christmas eve.  And right on the beach.  I’m heading down the coast from Seattle after house-sitting my house-sitter in Alaska.  It’s nice to be back in the sun. There are huge fires raging around Ventura so my route takes me east...

Western Design Conference and Beyond

  It’s time to get this trailer out of the shop and on the road.  The interior is complete, she’s polished up and road ready for a 15 month tour of the National Parks for the upcoming NPS Centennial.  Here I’m rolling in to Jackson...

Our Molesworth Airstream

Well, you all know about the 1948 Airstream Tradewind we found in California last year.  We towed it up to Montana and then on to Cody to get a new interior.  It’s a peach–and the third one built.  It’s currently parked in Cody Wyoming where...

Ranger Doug goes to Washington–Part III

This is my third trip to Washington and this time I get the royal treatment from the Department of the Interior.  My 20 years of republication of WPA National Park posters and contemporary works are now on exhibit at the DOI Museum.  I am elated to finally get to tell...

Our winter respite–Eastbound

Well, after the outdoor kitchen project, I’m ready for a break so Martina and I jump on the Alaska ferry and our first stop is Saxman Village just south of Ketchikan.  It’s one of the most beautiful places on Earth.  We walked around for a couple hours...

Provence

In Europe the best way to get around is by train–and we take the ICE train from Frankfurt to Paris.  This train reaches peak speeds of 315 k/h!  And wait til you pass on oncoming ICE train–wow!  We’re in Paris in about 5 hours. Paris was...