O'Bosky Travel Journal and More!

Our glacier cruise was very nice. So glad we had a table for all those hours. The colors were amazing!

Juneau, the capital of Alaska....a wonderful wet and rainy anniversary in Alaska! #39 A great ride on the Fjord Express catamarand.  This is a family owned business and their oldest daughter was our first mate for the day.  Just graduated high school and 18, she is working at getting her captain license. She was capable and did so much from tying up the boat to serving us hot beverages and seafood chowder on the way home to swinging the big boat around and docking us up as we returned!  The captain made sure that we saw lots of wildlife.  These are stellar sea lions and many were branded along their bodies so that the marine biologists can keep an eye on them.  There were so many of them lined up on the flat rocks.  It was a great sight to see!  The babies were having a swim here while the mom's took a break!  We saw so many bald eagles on this day!  You can see one tucked in the spruce tree here.  I took a great video of two whales but here you will have to se

Our days at Haines, Alaska Wow...so much beauty here and really not enough words to even describe it all!  This is our first Alaska stop, a cute old town settled between the fijord of Lynn Canal and the Glaciers of tall jagged peaks.  We pull into town and get a discount price at the RV park in the far end of town between two main roads and then call the Oceanside RV Park to find that their rate is two dollars cheaper with a spectacular view of the bay and the towering snow covered mountains.  Not hard to decide where we will stay.  What a view!  We meet a number of nice people here, some we've connected with before at various places.  We met two former Marines traveling together who were NGG (not gay guys) and we've enjoyed their company.  While talking with the older Marine about Quartzsite, I realized that I had met him before there on Plomosa Road in Quartzsite when I stopped him to admire his truck.  He told me I could only look at it if I sat in it.  A few minutes

Our Skagway Trip! We took the "Fast Ferry" to Skagway.  It was a short trip but beautiful!  We saw the terminal moraine of a glacier, bald eagles and spectacular mountains peeking at us through the clouds.    If you look carefully in this picture in the center, you can see our RVs parked in Haines at the Oceanside RV park.  This picture was taken from the Fast Ferry back toward Haines. Our view of the water and the mountains from this RV park was stunning!  We boarded the shuttle into the town of Skagway and here was the sign the driver was using above her tip container.  What a laugh!!  Our friends KC and Sheila had ridden this train a few days earlier from Carcross to Skagway.  It is the White Pass route.  We enjoyed waving and smiling at the folks aboard.  They waved and smiled back, all of them! LOL  We walked a short way to Reid Falls from the cemetery and were rewarded with this view of the falls.  Nice! We visited a jewelry store and Steve got to ho

HEY EVERYONE...MAKE SURE TO CHECK DENNIS AND CAROL HILL'S BLOG OFTEN.  THERE ARE SOME GREAT PICS OF US THERE SINCE WE ARE CRAZY!!!!!!!!!  LOL http://rvdrivingschool.blogspot.ca/ Here we are in Dawson Creek....5.24.14 Ups and downs and frustrations for the most part.  But the sun is out and the weather is nice this afternoon.  We are safe and in a town with a radiator problem and not miles out of town in the wilderness.  Our group left this morning headed up the Alaskan Highway.  It was really sad to see them go heading off while we stayed behind.  We'll see what Monday will bring.  Steve and the men did everything they could think of....but still this radiator leaks and can't have that, for sure. Today I live with an open hand, fully right where I am in this time, thankful and trusting in the One who leads, delays and makes a way where there is no other way...(thanks Ann Voskamp A Thousand Gifts) Steve and I parked the Queen Bee at Wal-Mart, on the far corner

Reflections of May 19, 2014  Grand Cache and Grand Prairie Alberta Canada *We parked in Super Stealth mode...behind an abandoned store.  We unhooked prior to arrival to give Queen Bee a rest on some steep hills and so Peewee was unhooked.  We drove around the little town in a driving rain to find a night spot.  Just when we were back to the rig, Steve spotted the closed convenience store.  We drove to the back and found a nifty nook, nice and level.  So we pulled up and backed in, put down the jacks and were cozy for the night...as it kept raining.  In a few hours the rain stopped.  We had homemade pizza and A &W root beer from the shop up the street, with no ice...as that is how they serve their drinks.  Gotta love Canada! The next morning, actually the 19th, Steve was checking the outside and I was readying the inside to make our way to Grande Prairie, when he discovered a flat tire on the inside left dually.  We were up really early so got on the phone with our Road service

Milk River May 3, 2014 As we approached the Canadian border I hummed O Canada and readied the passports!  After a few questions from the border agent and our very straight forward answers, we were told to have a good day and our passports were handed back and we crossed over  into Alberta!  It has been 7 years since we last visited with such great memories!  The weather however is not really cooperating with us.  Luckily we have had "Alaska training" in Wyoming and  are pretty used to just being cold! LOL We arrived in Milk River, a short way from the border, on a gray chilly and flurryish day.  The Queen Bee nestled in front of our friend Dottie's mobile home on Main Street in Milk River, Alberta.  After hello hugs Steve attempted to connect our electric to hers.  Each time it would snap out.  He checked her cords, and then began taking our electric apart trying to figure out the problem.  Finally, he realized it might be her power as we have a management system

We've been in Wyoming since 4.18.14....getting lots of "Alaska training" with the cold wind and weather.  It's always  amazing that the weather can change so quickly!  In one day we had rain, two hail storms, thunder and lightning, wind and snow!  But it is spring...even at a high of 34 degrees and the snow soon melted. This was a special trip for us as we helped build the barn and house for six summers but hadn't been there in 7 years and not in the house since it was completed!  Randy did an amazing job!  Our spot has waited for us...he put in full hook-ups for us and we sure enjoyed them!  It was almost 50 degrees the Saturday before Easter and the boys got to dye eggs outside!  They were so excited to be outdoors!  Two of Randy and Debi's precious granddaughters each vying for a bit of Papa's ice cream!  They were so cute! Easter egg hunt! More pictures to come soon.  I would have posted these before but could not get the blog to upload..

Bryce Canyon National Park....wow, and wow again!  This trip here was awesome.  So many firsts!  We got to see some snow on some of the hoodoos,  I got to see a bristle cone pine tree,  and I hiked down among the hoodoos! I love this pic with my honey....he gives such great perspective to these amazing hoodoos! Two things off my bucket list!  I am so beyond incredibly blessed!  We've so relaxed these past two days....parking off the road and enjoying evenings of puzzles, read alouds and relaxing dinners! Thanks for stopping by....consider all that Jesus has given on the cross as Easter approaches!

Magnificent! Neck breaking!  Really big rocks!  Wonderful day with cousins!  Thanks to my cousins Carrie and Caryn for the trip to Zion National Park!  It had been decades since we had been.  Here you see the Patriarchs of Abraham, Isaac and Jabob.     Cousin Caryn with Shane and Erica on the left and cousin, Carrie with son Alex on the right.  Thanks to all of you for the gift of this great day! I don't know or remember the names of the mountains but they were amazing!  Enjoy the pics! Right there along the trail coming down from the Patriarchs was this beauty! We took a walk to the first emerald pool....it wasn't impressive but the views from the trail were! Tucked up against the bank on our way down from the emerald pools my eye caught the shape of a blossom.  I gently turned it up to see what it looked like and wow!  I love taking pictures...lol, and on the way down there were great views of the towering mountains behind those coming