Rob and Ashlee's Collage Barrage: ALASKA! TOGETHER! FINALLY!!

WORDS TO LIVE BY...

"To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield"

- Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1833

"live deep and suck out all the marrow of life"

- Henry David Thoreau, 1845

"Some guys, they just give up living

And start dying little by little, piece by piece

Some guys come home from work and wash up,

And go racin' in the streets"

- Bruce Springsteen, 1977

"...to the heart, there's no time for you to waste.

You won't find your precious answers now

by staying in one place"

- Frank Turner, 2009

"The best things in life aren't things

They're living and breathing"

- Michael Franti , 2011

"Well, this world is ours while we are in it
Grab a hold of my hand
And we can take it
Together, our lives are just one passing minute
It could be gold, if we make it"
- Jay Buchanan, 2012

"We've got these times of our lives

Let's take this time to let it show

'cause these are ours.

These are ours!"

-Justin Furstenfeld, of Blue October 2013

"I owned every second that this world could give,

I saw so many places, the things that I did"

- Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic, 2014

"No cash in the bank, no paid holidays

All we have, all we have is

Gas in the tank, maps for the getaway

All we have, all we have is time"

- Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, 2014

Days go by, Get out and see the world, Days go by, Get out and see the world with your own eyes - Brett Dennen 2021

All written content and photos by Rob Fulfer unless otherwise indicated.

Thursday, May 28, 2026

ALASKA! TOGETHER! FINALLY!!

While we have both been to Alaska, we have not been together and neither of us have been there on a cruise, so this is a big bucket-lister trip for us along with some family as well.

That's 2,081 Nautical Miles Traveled + 2,072 airline miles + a few hundred road miles in between!!

Wednesday, August 5 - Fly to Seattle,

Mt. Rainer rising above the clouds and forest fire smoke.

We had to rent two vehicles to carry all our luggage and bodies! Our first stop while we waited on our lodging to be ready was the flight museum close to the airport where we also had lunch.

The whole gang goofing around with the Pan Am mannequins. Who's the dummies?

Our adorable AirBnB home (good find, Paige!) in the very sweet Magnolia neighborhood of Northwest Seattle was our next stop.

Seattle Mariners game vs. the Detroit Tigers. We had front-row, aisle seats in the outfield of beautiful T-Mobile Park. (all 7 of us)

We actually saw a lot of action in our front-row left foul pole seats.

Thursday, August 6 - A Day in Seattle - chef led food tour of Pike Place Market

Greek ice cream