Shared experience and adventure in life mean a lot to us. Though compromise is always an eventual necessity for two or more people traveling together, as a solo traveler I get to go wherever I want and do whatever I want - whenever I want - without ever having to consult with or work it out with any travel companions. It’s worth noting for those of you who are new to my trip reports that I am an independent single traveler. Mostly I like to think I just take my life on the road for a while – sometimes quite a long while. Sometimes my offseason plans include work but most of the time they involve travel. The other seven and a half months are open to interpretation and reinterpretation as the year progresses. For the past 37 years I have worked in Denali National Park where I spend four and a half months per year driving visitors on day trips into the park. I live in Alaska and as any of you who’ve read my “reports” know, I’m not a guy who gets two or three weeks off per year and takes the occasional vacation. Also in the works was a possible trip to the South Pacific starting with Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and finally the Marquesas Islands, returning home via Papeete, Tahiti. To be sure, this pandemic has definitely cast a pall on a couple of the more report worthy long distance trips I had planned for 20, most notably a First Class extravaganza to Capetown, South Africa where I’d planned to board the luxurious Rovos Rail train for an eleven day rail cruise up through Zimbabwe and Zambia to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania thereafter to continue on to the Seychelles Islands and Mauritius for a couple more weeks of sun and fun before returning to Alaska for another exciting summer driving travelers around the wilds of Denali. What a fantastic trip that was! Should any of you be so inclined to revisit that journey at any point, you’ll find it right HERE. Then I relocated to Memphis, Tennessee where I boarded the considerably smaller paddle-wheeler Queen of The Mississippi for a seven night journey down the lower Mississippi River to New Orleans. From there I boarded Princess Cruises’ Sun Princess for a three night four day cruise down the West Coast to Los Angeles. Some of you may remember that report, a 60000+ word epic (to my way of thinking, anyway) describing a multitude of autumn rail excursions through and around New England before heading north and traveling across Canada in style aboard Via Rail’s Canadian to Vancouver. Be that as it may, the last time I submitted a trip report here was in December of 2019 - just a couple of months prior to the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic. Over the past twenty years I’ve written eighty trip reports totaling over 1.4 million words. I used to publish trip reports here at FlyerTalk’s Trip Report Forum.
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