Balabanova All Over

[Poipu/Port Allen, Kauai, Hi, Feb 18, 2024] My friends reminded me that Kauai is the chill island, so we obliged and had a very leisurely morning on our first full day...

[Kapa’a, Kauai, Hawaii, Feb 17, 2024] Hard to believe that I was above the Arctic Circle a month ago, and now I find myself in 75F/24C on the island of Kauai!...

[Leavenworth, WA, Dec 25/26, 2023] The thing about Leavenworth is that it shuts down for Christmas, even with all the tourists. Nothing was open for breakfast or lunch, and the two...

[Leavenworth, WA, Dec 24, 2023] Due to the lack of snow even this late in December, we decided to go for a hike. At first we tried the little snow area...

[Leavenworth, WA, Dec 23, 2024] A former struggling logging town, Leavenworth, WA reinvented itself as a Bavarian-inspired vacation destination in the 1960s. It has since become incredibly popular, and not just...