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Welcome!

Welcome to our site! We’re Dave and Kathy Titley. We get underway and travel the country in our 2017 Airstream. This summer we will volunteer for Grand Teton National Park! How do we do it? It’s all here!

Our most recent Blog Posts!

  • Our Eight Day Photography Excursion Aboard the MV David B — Part Six
    DAY 7 — is full of animals We begin the day with a walk in the forest of Admiralty Island. It is our last shore excursion of the trip. Again, it is another mix of pristine forest and beach. Dave’s Photos Kathy’s photos About midday in Frederick Sound we see Orcas, and at one point … Read more
  • Our Eight Day Photography Excursion Aboard the MV David B — Part Five
    DAY 5 — Pack Creek Today is another momentous day on the trip — Grizzly Day! We leave our private whispy fog enshrouded harbor and cross west to Admiralty Island and the Pack Creek Bear Viewing Wilderness Area. On our transit, I read a book about how the area came to be established. Too long … Read more
  • Our Eight Day Photography Excursion Aboard the MV David B — Part Four
    DAY 4 — Dawes Glacier This morning I am invited down to the engine room by the Captain, to see what it takes to get the engine started for the day. First, there are about a dozen spots requiring a gentle squirt of oil from a long necked can I remember seeing in my grandfather’s … Read more
  • Our Eight Day Photography Excursion Aboard the MV David B — Part Three
    DAY 3 — Fords Terror For the trip, we are provided charming journals, the paper capable of being written on in the rain, to record our experiences. I managed it for twenty minutes on the afternoon of day one, and sadly, that was it. Each morning when Christine chalked the breakfast menu on the galley … Read more
  • Our Eight Day Photography Excursion Aboard the MV David B — Part Two
    DAY 1 Within an hour of stepping aboard the David B and receiving our boat safety lecture, Jefferey had the maps out to show us the planned itinerary for the week and was cruising south through a narrow channel between the mainland and Douglas Island, and out into the network of watery highways of Southeast … Read more
  • Our Eight Day Photography Excursion Aboard the MV David B — Part One
    Dear Family and Friends,  In January, I came across an advertisement in a photography magazine for a very intriguing workshop — adventure cruising in Alaska. I forwarded the link to Dave and said something brilliant like, “Wouldn’t this be awesome to do some day?” His reply? “Why not?! What would we wait for?” Indeed! The … Read more

“At the instant that the last mooring line leaves the pier or buoy, or the moment that the anchor is aweigh, the boatswain’s mate of the watch blows a long blast on his whistle and passes the word, ‘Underway–shift colors.'”

https://www.seaflags.us/customs/customs.html#shift
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) getting underway from Yokosuka Japan (U.S. Navy Photo 2018)

Some pics from a hike up Cascade Canyon

How not to be seen...
Bull moose playing “How Not to be Seen”
I’ve been waiting for eight months to see this view again!

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    1. Hi Moni! Thanks for your comment! We’ll we working in Grand Teton all summer so unfortunately will not be at International this year. Take care!

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