Zach likes to travel and go on adventurous trips with Jennifer. They've been to Europe twice and on several bicycle tours. The blog Jennifer and Zach's Adventures tells all about these trips.
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I (Jennifer) had arthroscopic shoulder surgery recently. I thought it would be fairly minor, but the surgeon found more to fix than he had expected once he got in there, and now I need to keep my right arm immobilized for about 6 weeks in a very bulky sling. Living temporarily with just one usable …
We were lucky enough to have the time, energy, fitness, and wellness (which I never take for granted these days!) to go on three backpacking trips this summer together; Zach also went on several backcountry trail work trips with Washington Trails Association (WTA). Jennifer wanted to make sure all of her backpacking gear and body …
Our last bike tour (fall of 2022) was very hilly, and there were a few places where I (Jennifer) had to get off the bike and push it up the hill. One hill in particular seemed very dangerous, because there was a lot of traffic and there really wasn’t a good place on the side …
Time for a change in the blog… In 2010, we went on a 6-week bicycling adventure in central Europe. Internet access along our route was very spotty (we didn’t even have access every day), our phones didn’t work in Europe, and good photos required using a stand-alone digital camera instead of a phone. So we …
Continue reading "March 2025 in Portugal and Southern Spain"
In June, after we returned from our trip to Hawaii, we talked to Zach’s mother (Virginia), and decided that we all wanted to take a trip to Alaska, if it wasn’t too late to organize it for this summer. For both Zach and Jennifer, Alaska was the only state we hadn’t visited yet, so completing …
Continue reading "Planes, trains, buses, boats, and automobiles: Alaska 2024"
You may have noticed that there haven’t been many posts here lately… Jennifer had some health issues that affected her ability to go on the type of adventures we like to do between 2022 until this spring (see our previous post about a road/hiking trip to the southwest). But things are looking better now, so …
In March of 2024, Jennifer traded in her all-electric 2022 Kia Niro for a slightly-used plug-in hybrid 2023 Kia Niro. She liked driving the 2022 Niro, and liked not using gasoline to drive around town, but decided she wanted a car that was easier to deal with when leaving town. The new Niro still has …
The last few years, around the end of the year we have been making posts with some notes and photos from adventures that we didn’t write up as individual blog posts. We’re a bit late this year, but I (Jennifer) decided late was better than never, so here goes! Early in 2022, Zach decided he …
In late November 2022, we embarked on a three-week road trip to the Southwest, which I’m finally getting around to writing up a blog post about (this post is written by Jennifer). We took my electric car… the electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the US right now is having some problems (a lot of charging …
In late summer 2022, we decided that it had been too long since we had taken a bike trip, and we started discussing where to go for a fall trip. We didn’t really want to fly anywhere, due to concerns about COVID-19 as well as the hassles of transporting bicycles on airplanes. We discussed going …
Continue reading "Cycling and Ferry Hopping in the Gulf Islands"