Semiserious Chefs

So I figured it’s about time I finally wrote a post about our travels. It’s been nearly 2 full months since we left Anchorage, heading south and east towards some yet to be determined location on the East Coast (I’m voting for New Hampshire). But we’ll figure that out later. I haven’t been able to […]

Driving the Alcan. Or as it’s now known, The Alaska Highway. It’s the long aspiring dream of so many people. Retire and take an RV trip all the way to Alaska. The adventure of a lifetime! But I guess we’re not most people. First, we’re FROM Alaska. Second, I think when most people envision their […]

I love the summers in Alaska. I really do. I don’t know anyone in their right mind who could say otherwise. The thing is, I’ve gone through my share of winters here in Anchorage. Granted they’re not terrible winters like those you get farther north, but they last long enough that I’m just getting downright […]

I’ve spent plenty of time camping and fishing in Alaska, but by no means was I any sort of diehard outdoorsman. In fact, I was and still am far from it. It was mostly in my late teens and early twenties that I spent any time camping and fishing. For sure it was fun and […]

While on vacation to Nice, CA we took the opportunity to stop in at a few fire stations for Mr. Nathan to look around. Firemen Derek and Randy were very kind to spend a lot of time with us at North Shore FPD’s Station 85. He checked out several different vehicles and even got to […]

It’s our last day in California and we road trip from Nice through Napa to San Fransisco. I was very excited to find the charcuterie I’d been planning to visit, and we saw the aftermath of this summer’s fires all around us. Perhaps the best part of our whole trip though, we got to meet […]

Today we took a road trip from the Resort in Nice to the Pacific Ocean. First we headed North West on highway 20 through Willits and on to Fort Bragg. Then we headed south to the cliff and beach at Mendocino, before finally heading home on the Comptchi-Ukiah Road (and Orr Road), back to the […]

Our second day on vacation we chose to check out the area a little bit. We explore the nearby town of Lakeport, get to see some really cool new birds, and try something new for dinner!

My parents treated us to a visit at The Reindeer Farm in Palmer. It was a beautiful short drive from Anchorage, about 30 minutes on the Glenn and Old Glenn Highways. I was really excited to find out that you get to go in with the herd to feed and pet them! Nathan had a […]

June 2017 started off with a bang for us. Typically, there really isn’t much going on for most Alaskans’ Summers until Memorial Day weekend. It really is true that summer doesn’t start around here until the last weekend of May. The regularly accepted gardening rule is to ‘never put anything in the ground until Memorial […]