Photography – Wandering Dawgs

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #374 – On the Move!

November 18, 2025November 22, 2025Posted in Photography, TravelTagged Cruising, ferry, Lens-Artists, On the Move, Photo Challenge, Photography, RVing, Train Ride, Viking Ocean Cruise51 Comments

Truck and camper in Denali National Park, Alaska

John has a fun challenge for us this week – On the Move. He asks “How do you travel? Where do you go?”

I started my blog in 2013 as a way for our friends and family to follow us along on our four month RV journey to Alaska and back. The featured image is of our truck and fifth wheel in our campsite in Denali National Park in Alaska.

From 2006 to 2019 we spent many days on the move as we wandered around the United States and Canada in our trusty Chevy Silverado towing our home on wheels. We traveled from campground to campground, state to state, and through a few Canadian provinces. Sometimes we would be away from home for a week or two, other times for a month or more.

We towed our fifth wheel on interstates and back roads and sometimes took it on a ferry to get where we needed to go. I captured the first image in the following gallery as we waited our turn to board the small ferry to cross the Yukon River from Dawson City, Yukon. We also towed our camper on the Alaskan ferry from Skagway to Haines and on a Texas ferry on the way to Galveston.

We watched this truck and trailer board the ferry to cross the Yukon River from Dawson City, Yukon

During our RV travels we would often take excursions on different types of transportation. In Alaska we took a ride on the Alaska Railroad, rode a bus in Denali National Park, took wildlife cruises from Haines and from Seward, and landed on a glacier in a small plane.

Our driver with the bus he drove on the road through the Denali Wilderness in Denali National Park, Alaska

In 2019 we made the decision to park the RV and take different kinds of trips. We went on our first ever ocean cruise 2022. We were hooked.

The Viking Sea was our home for two weeks as we sailed around the Caribbean on our first cruise.

We had some fun modes of transportation in some of the ports. We rode on a Wacky Roller bus in Dominica, an open-air Safari bus in Tortola, Henry drove us around St. Martin in a Talon 4-wheeler, and the Monster Bus in Costa Rica took us into the rain forest.

Henry drove is around St. Martin in one of these Talons

No matter how we move from place to place we always enjoy seeing new places, meeting people, and enjoying the scenery along the way.

Thanks to Egidio for taking us back to challenge #31: Landscapes last week. Your responses took us around the world with your wonderful landscapes of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so much more.

I hope you will join in for this week’s challenge. Be sure to tag your post with Lens-Artists and include a link back to John’s post Lens-Artists #374 – On the Move!.

Be sure to check back on Saturday, November 22 at noon eastern time when Patti will be hosting the challenge.

For information on how to join the Len-Artists challenge please click here.

Every Day is a Gift

Photo Challenge: Lens-Artists #61 – Precious Pets

September 1, 2019Posted in PhotographyTagged Labrador Retriever, Lens-Artists, Photo Challenge, Photography, Precious Pets19 Comments

For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge Tina has challenged us to show Precious Pets.

We lost our precious dog Blondie almost 2 years ago. She lived a full life and traveled over 200,000 miles on her bed in the back seat of our truck as she accompanied us in our RV travels through the U. S and Canada. She loved to swim, chase tennis balls, and go for a boat ride. During our travels she swam in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, all the Great Lakes, Cook’s Inlet in Alaska, and even the Yukon River in Canada.

Blondie returns with the tennis ball — Blondie was happiest when she was in the water

Blondie and the salmon at the fish hatchery in Valdez, Alaska

Blondie in Cook Inlet in Ninilchik, Alaska

Going for a boat ride — Blondie loved going for a boat ride

We don’t have a pet these days but we have a grand dog and two grand cats.

20181201-Jack-(2) — Grand Dog Jack the Dachshund

20190707-Sandbar-with-Bela-(36) — Grand Dog Jack studies a crab at the beach

20190418-Tubbles-(4) — Grand Cat Tubbles

20171123Thanksgiving-at-the-Badgley-(16) — Our grand cats Tubbles and Tootsie anxiously await Thanksgiving dinner

This post is dedicated to the memory of all the pets who have made our lives so much richer – FD, FD2, Shadow, Howard, Blue, and especially Blondie.