[This post is written on behalf of AKontheGO sponsor business AAA Alaska.] In 1979, my parents announced that my brother, sister, and I were “old enough” to take a family vacation to the original Magic Kingdom of Disneyland. At 11, 10, and eight, apparently the three of us had reached a state of travel maturity […]
The family travel and tourism industry thrives when businesses collaborate and create partnerships to not only expand their products or offerings, but the overall experience of young visitors to a particular destination. It takes work, though, to nurture these partnerships and effort to implement a vision, and not every business is willing to go so […]
My favorite Alaska author and writing cohort Heather Lende said it perfectly this morning in her Alaska Dispatch News column. “Here’s something I learned…Gratitude. Which is different than giving thanks. Gratitude comes from knowing that the story could have ended differently, and that it often does.” It’s been more than two months since I spent […]
A bit on the shy side, Dean Keck wasn’t exactly sure how much he was supposed to share with his pseudo-volunteer-for-the-day courtesy of Dawn. Keck, a Biology student and new volunteer at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, CA, was still learning the ropes of daily animal care duties for the dozen or so sea […]
This post is the first of a three-part series profiling the commitment of Procter & Gamble and Dawn dishwashing liquid toward the preservation and rescue of wildlife. While it is a sponsored post, it is also a post of awareness for the 75,000 marine mammals and birds affected by oil pollution who have been treated […]
Rugged, windswept, alive. Those are just a few descriptors uttered this week while gazing upon wild landscapes of Baja California, a nearly 800-mile peninsula of land jutting out from mainland Mexico. With Un-Cruise Adventures as our trusted guide, my family and I were able to scramble precipitious hillsides, paddle blue water, and immerse ourselves in […]
As a child, few vacations held such appeal for fun than those embarked upon with another family. Ready-made playmates besides my brother and sister, campfires, canoe excursions, and the absolute sparkling gem; riding in someone else’s car for a few hours while caravaning across the Pacific Northwest. We woke up each morning to toast and […]
Precious, that’s what it is. Retracing highway miles and steps walked by AK Dad and me, years and years ago. After too many summers of saying “I wish we could…” we finally are. Beginning in our favorite Pacific Northwest city of Portland, and looping south, east, north, then west, AKontheGO is taking our youngest traveler […]
It’s been 10 years since AK Dad and I left the Olympic Peninsula town of Port Angeles for our next chapter of Life, Unscripted; but every time I return to this lush, green haven of outdoor recreation I am reminded of why I love it so. Thanks to jetBlue and their new service to Seattle […]
Well, how handy is that? Alaska Airlines sends me a lovely email today (Travel Tuesday, in fact) with some pretty fine deals to our favorite southern California city of San Diego. Woe that we just got back. How good are the deals? Check ’em out, HERE, and notice that the fares are, as always, hot, […]
Alaskans asked, and New York-based JetBlue Airways responded: Beginning Thursday, May 16, 2013, JetBlue will begin daily nonstop service between Anchorage and Seattle. Family travel to and from Alaska couldn’t get any easier, folks, as JetBlue’s signature service rivals that of our other major air carrier, Alaska Airlines, leaving plenty of room for speculation over […]