{"id":4,"date":"2018-03-13T12:35:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T12:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2026-02-22T13:09:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T13:09:02","slug":"travel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a collection of travel photos and short essays on some of the trips I&#8217;ve done over the years.<\/p>\n<p>To get email notifications on blog updates, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.wordpress.com\/?email=bltierney%40gmail.com\">https:\/\/subscribe.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Recent Trips<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/journey-to-antarctica-february-2026\/\">Antartica and Chile<\/a>, Feb 2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/88ueXWW5F9A5xHgBA\">Ireland<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/5EPfrjAnaN1vWXGZ8\">Scotland<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/9Wu3s1ZhUH23zUD98\">England<\/a>: August 2025<\/p>\n<p>Camper Van Road trip to <a href=\"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/alaska-road-trip-summer-2022\">Alaska and Western Canada<\/a>: May 15-Sept 20, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In August\/September 2021 we spent 5 weeks exploring Croatia. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/12\/zagreb-croatia-august-2021\/\">blog<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n<p>In Summer 2020 we spent 10 weeks exploring Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/travel-blog-entries\/\">blog<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n<p>In the Winter\/Spring 2019 we travelled across Texas, northern Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California for 3 months. Summary of that trip is <a href=\"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/winter-2018-19-trip\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After working for 40 years I finally retired and took off on a 7 month adventure to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/travel\/se-asia\/\">Southeast Asia and Japan<\/a>\u00a0(August 2017 to April 2018).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_20180225_182749-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Previous Trips<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/sKYT9sTgEOwjf3hn2\">Prague<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/tgyIvnw4OqQxZrUk1\">Poland<\/a>, 2016<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/EdU4zU1hGoIpm8Qg2\">Portugal<\/a>, 2015<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/YOSaJrlNU1JY9DqC3\">Peru<\/a>, 2015<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/ljQBF6WSR82V1ong1\">New Zealand<\/a>, 2012\/13<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/gp\/28755029@N00\/f1AF5x\">Idaho<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/gp\/28755029@N00\/34bWb4\">Glacier National Park<\/a>, 2012<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/gp\/28755029@N00\/12rU93\">Veracruz<\/a>, Mexico, 2011<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/SykGwTa09yKSgs2p2\">Alaska<\/a>, 2011<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/a8IjTXgjqZcOmAkN2\">Lava Beds National Monument and Oregon<\/a>, 2010<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/YY0ZcroXyPDmFFfZ2\">Alaska<\/a>, 2009<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/y9n656FPzkGbUDbK8\">Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua<\/a>: Dec 2006 &#8211; Jan 2007<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/C1FZ3AWo4pmmqJm99\">Jamaica<\/a>: 2005<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bltierney.com\/travel\/go_west\/\">Utah and Nevada<\/a>, 2002<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bltierney.com\/travel\/central_europe.html\">Central\/Eastern\u00a0Europe<\/a>, 2001<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bltierney.com\/travel\/western_europe.html\">Western\u00a0Europe<\/a>, 2000-2001<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bltierney.com\/travel\/France-Swiss.html\">France and\u00a0Switzerland<\/a>, 2000-2001<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Earlier Trips (before I had a digital camera):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cuba: Dec 1998<\/li>\n<li>Egypt, Jordan, Israel: 1996<\/li>\n<li>Guatemala\/Belize: Dec 1994 &#8211; Jan 1995?<\/li>\n<li>India: 1993<\/li>\n<li>Mexico (Playa del Carmen, Tulum, Merida): 1991 (1st trip with Christine)<\/li>\n<li>Southeast Asia: 1987<\/li>\n<li>Europe highlights (post college backpacking trip): 1985<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a collection of travel photos and short essays on some of the trips I&#8217;ve done over the years. To get email notifications on blog updates, go to https:\/\/subscribe.wordpress.com Recent Trips Antartica and Chile, Feb 2026 Ireland, Scotland, and England: August 2025 Camper Van Road trip to Alaska and Western Canada: May 15-Sept 20,Continue reading &rarr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3878,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/3878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}