Ready to go

On Saturday I will fly towards Alaska starting from Amsterdam. lesly and Kyle will join me on Tuesday, June 3rd so I have a couple of days to "make camp"in Anchorage. To give you a little idea about our itinery, here is a short version: Anchorage, Wrangler & St Elias NP, Kluane NP in Canada, Whitehorse in Canada, Tok, Denali NP, Fairbanks and Kenai Fjord NP. There is also a little surprise in this trip but we will not unveil that part until later. We hope you will stay in touch with us.

Preparations for Alaska

In about one week we will start our Alaska adventure. Leslie, Kyle and I will try to explore this most Northern State (and a little part of Canada) in a most releaxed way. Our main activities will be camping, hiking, wildlife watching and of course having lots of fun. At this moment Leslie is already in the States, enjoying some family life and preparing the trip for Kyle as far as necessary. We will try to keep you update about our adventures during the trip as far as we can connect with the outside world by use of internet cafe's. We hope to hear from you all now and than!

Spring sailing

Recently I went ocean sailing again, after a few years not being exposed to this experience. I was very happy to notice that I still have not lost the touch of my nautical past. The combination of the wind from "behind" and the sun from above made the week a spectacular and very relaxed one. I sailed with my friend who owns a boat from the town of Ymuiden in the Netherlands all the way to Cherbourg on the Normandy coast in France. All together this was a five day trip with only one stop in the city of Dover in England (we crossed over to England to enjoy more wind close to the English coastline. Specially the nights under sail were magic again. I enjoyed sitting at the wheel on my own and watching the bright stars over the English Channel combined with all the little navigational lights of the many ships in this area. I felt sad that I had to leave the boat just before my friend was going over to the Channel Islands as I only had one week off from my work. My travel back to Holland went by various trains from which one was the superfast high speed train that runs between Paris and Brussels. 190 Miles per hour is pretty impressive!