Greetings from the Olympic Peninsula

The Olympic Peninsula, located in the very Evergreen State of Washington!

This post is an update for my travel and activities with Kaiyote Tours for the last year.  I have been very busy and it has been a great year since my last post about New Years 2017.  Hard to believe that was almost a year and a half past already.  

So much has happened since I last posted on this blog, that I am not going to try and write about it, but I am adding a lot of photos at the bottom.  

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This summer will be a very special anniversary for me. My first year as a nature guide was the summer of 1998 in Rocky Mountain National Park and at the time, I figured being a guide might last a year or two. But this year will mark 20 years as a guide: sixteen years in Rocky Mountain National Park and now nearly four years in Olympic National Park, plus during that same time, eleven years of organizing international travel tours.

My guiding career started when I was working at the front desk at the historic Crags Lodge in Estes Park, Colorado at the edge of Rocky Mountain National Park; the lodge had been converted into a condo-time-share and the guests stayed for a week. There were many people who on Day 1 drove through the park, Day 2 went shopping and on Day 3 were at the front desk asking "What else is there to do?" and I said "WHAT?"

And so I organized an activities program and it was so popular that it become my full time job. I worked at the Crags Lodge for 12 years, from 1995 - 2007, and one day I decided to start my own guide service and have my own business in Rocky Mountain National Park and so in May 2007, Kaiyote Tours was officially open for business. After 7 years in RMNP, in the fall of 2014, I moved to Port Angeles, Washington so I could live close to the ocean and still have a very big back yard of wilderness. For the past four years now, I have been living on my sailboat, guiding tours in ONP and traveling as often as possible.

This year, just as last, Ed and Kari will be helping me with tours in both in Olympic National Park and my international travel tours as well. We hope you join one of our trips!

Since January 2017, there has been numerous international trips to Nicaragua, Iceland and Taiwan. For 2018 my international schedule is booked through November 2018.  The next trip that I have availability for is Colombia in December 2018 and the next Iceland New Years Eve trip for 2019.  I am also taking reservations for international tours in 2019.  You can find more about those trips on my website at KaiyoteTours.com .  

Below are photos from the past year from all my tours, both international and Olympic National Park. There are a lot of photos because it has been so long since I posted any.