Karakolina Trips 2004 Trips 2003 Trips 2002 Trips 2001 Trips 2000


Teasers From Trips Not Yet Posted
Oregon coast to Washington from Thanksgiving 2003 Trip
Mt. Rainier to Olympic National Park July 4th 2004
Great Plains to Badlands National Park Labor Day 2004
Glacier National Park from July 4th Trip 2003
04/12/2006

Hello Everyone!

Pathetically, I have not posted anything new in the last year and a half! That's because I'm now working AND going to college. So if you are bored looking at the stuff over and over on this site, why don't you take a look at my husband's blog www.johnwise.com, he's got a bunch of really cool photos and stories.

The most recent pages are:
06/17/2004 - 06/24/2004 Jessica's Visit
11/06/2000 - Niagara Falls - Old Fort Niagara, NY
12/11/2004 - Disneyland/California Adventure
11/25/2004 - Beatty, NV - Death Valley, CA - King City
07/24/2004 - Las Vegas with Jay, Raenu, and Rinku
05/17/2004 - Yellowstone National Park, WY - Little Big Horn Nat. Battlefield, MT
01/17/2003 - Phoenix - Santa Barbara - San Luis Obispo - Hwy 1 - Monterey
04/24/2003 - Brunswick, GA - Savannah - North Carolina
10/10/2004 - Monterey Bay Aquarium Tour, Highway 1 south, CA
10/09/2004 - Driving up Highway 1, Monterey Bay Sailing Trip, CA
05/16/2004 - Yellowstone National Park, WY
05/15/2004 - Richfield, UT - Grand Tetons, WY
05/14/2004 - Phoenix - Richfield, UT
04/23/2003 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Meeting Manatees - Brunswick, GA
04/22/2003 - Homestead, FL - Key West - Ft. Lauderdale
04/21/2003 - Everglades, FL
03/31/2002 - Oregon Coast south through Redwood Forest, CA
03/30/2002 - Columbia River Gorge and Oregon Coast
04/20/2003 - Pascagoula MS - Fort Myers, FL
09/02/2002 - Colorado/Utah/AZ
09/01/2002 - South Dakota/Nebraska
04/19/2003 - Louisiana
04/18/2003 - AZ - Texas
03/29/2002 - Idaho/Oregon
08/31/2002 - Colorado

Enjoy, Caroline

Please feel free to drop me an email, I'd love to hear from you. writeme@karakolina.com



01/01/2005
John suggested a day from our US trip in 2000 and here it is... 6th of November 2000 which we spent at Niagara Falls and Old Fort Niagara. Boy, we sure didn't know how many photos to take per day.

12/21/2004
Unbelievable... I just posted our entire birthday weekend photos. Raenu, John, Kutulu and I had great fun in Los Angeles. We spent one day in Disneyland, and another day visiting several places in Los Angeles. Start with this day!

12/19/2004
I'm on a roll! I posted another day - the second day of our 2004 Thanksgiving trip which led us to Northern California. Although this is the second day, it is really the first day that has photos because on the way out to Nevada we did not take any. And so our "first" day starts in Beatty, Nevada.

12/18/2004
Yellowstone Park remains our favourite national park - I posted the 17th of May 2004, a day we started at Old Faithful Inn with our friend Jay. After walking through the geyser basin adjacent to the inn we slowly made our way out towards Northeast into Montana.

Also posted today: our trip to Las Vegas with Jay, Raenu, and Rinku. It was a complete surprise for Jay - he got "kidnapped" on Saturday afternoon - we were back in Phoenix on Sunday at 12:35 PM.

12/06/2004
I decided to get started on our very first trip in the year 2004 and guess what... it was another trip to Monterey for our 10th anniversary!

11/07/2004
Another day of my mom's visit posted. I'll have to check for the exact place where we stayed at the end of the day which had us start in Brunswick, Georgia, spend a good part of the day (and lunch) in Savannah and then saw us venture into North Carolina.

10/25/2004
Yay!!! Two new days! This is the our most recent trip to Monterey in California. The captions to the photos will hopefully be posted later today.

10/20/2004
Another day of our trip with Jay is completed. We spent all of that day cruising around Yellowstone National Park. The weather wasn't exactly picture perfect, but we had a grand time anyway.

10/16/2004
Wow, 6 months passed... lots of photos taken and none posted. Well, here are 3 new ones. I won't spend much time on writing and will try to add another one today.

04/06/2004
Unbelievable! Another day posted in less than a week! Let's just say I won't be able to keep up this pace. I have other things to do, letters to write... (hey Jess!!!)

04/03/2004
After another lengthy pause, another day of our trip to the South with my Mom in 2003. I'll get started on another day tonight, hopefully I'll get it posted THIS year...

01/20/2004
I can't believe it has been over two months since I last posted a day! And I'm not going to post one today either, sorry. I just wanted you to know that I'm still alive and am going to get into posting pictures again soon. There are several new trips and events to add to the portfolio as well, we traveled to the Oregon coast Thanksgiving 2003, drove to Disneyland with John's daughter and sister, visited relatives, got invited to an (Asian) Indian wedding and spent a long weekend on the California Central Coast and Monterey. I posted some sneak previews below (well, that's above now)...

11/10/2003
I haven't taken much time recently to do more pictures, but I promise I'll be better! I just finally finished what seemed like the longest and most difficult day - The 30st of March, 2002. On that day we traveled the Columbia Gorge from Arlington, Oregon to Portland, then drove around Tillamook Bay and south to Florence, Oregon. For the most part we had the greatest weather and a wonderful time, but for some reason, this day took forever to compile for the website.

09/10/2003
Unbelievable, after only 3 days I am ready to post another part of our Florida trip! On April 20th we drove from Mississippi through Alabama to Fort Myers in Florida. As you will see we covered a lot of ground and didn't take a whole lot of pictures, although some are among my all-time favourites - like the turtle. That was a really unpleasant (and heavy) fellow.

Oh, and I also added the last pictures to the last day of the Labor Day 2002 Trip (09/02/2002).

09/07/2003
After much laboring and very little time, I am almost done with the last day of our Labor Day 2002 trip, to Devils Tower National Monument. Only a few more pictures are missing so John thought it would be a good idea to post it.

07/16/2003
Yay, another new full day! On the Labor Day 2002 trip we finally reached our destination, Mount Rushmore in South Dakota and are already on our way back, driving through Nebraska until Colorado. Next up - our recent weekend trip to the Hopi Reservation. There are not too many pictures, but we wrote the story already - coming soon!

In case you are interested, this is the link to the interview from translated from German magazine Der Spiegel with one of my favorite directors and story tellers, Hayao Miyazaki, the man who brought us Totoro, Nausicaa, Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away.

After I'm done with another day of our April trip I'll go back to all of the other trips, like Labor Day 2002/Mount Rushmore and Eastern 2002/Oregon, Hopi Weekend and Independence Weekend 2003, thanks for your patience!