This post was written this morning for my page at The Outbound Collective, but they have suddenly gotten greedy and the pages are so bloated with bandwidth-intensive ads that the articles aren’t even readable. The writing is a bit different than my normal because it’s written for people who...

A wonderful spell of warm weather has prompted me to get out a fair bit. I wanted to do two road trips – one to the White Pass and one to see the new bridge being built at Teslin. A storm warning about a system moving in with heavy...

I haven’t been getting out much this winter, but the past few days I’ve finally pulled myself away from my desk and got out a few times. Nothing very exciting, but here’s a bit of what the Whitehorse area looks like in January. It’s been a very strange winter...

This post is about a mystery that’s been in my files for 35 years, that I have finally solved. There are two creeks in British Columbia named Airplane Creek. One is a tributary of the upper Stikine River, but this post is about the one east of Chilliwack. It...

Sunday, November 24th – Day 10 of my trip, and the last full day away from home. The warm sun was gone but I had a day and a half to spend with family. Neither Andrea nor I were pleased to see this… …but she suggested that we head...

Saturday, November 23rd – time to go home. Well, not quite home for me – I’d spend two nights in Calgary with my kids and their families. The first photo shows our view from the third floor of the Marriott at 07:25. Our flight didn’t leave until 12:18 but...

The Pima Air & Space Museum is one of the largest non-government funded aviation and space museums in the world, with over 400 aircraft spread over 80 acres, with six large hangars. They recommend 3-4 hours for a visit, but after 2 hours and 160 photos I was totally...

We’ve reached our final full day in Arizona – Friday, November 22nd. Our time in Tucson was split between the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and the Pima Air & Space Museum, then we drove to our hotel near the Phoenix airport. Before leaving the Hotel McCoy, Andrea and I walked...

It’s now the afternoon of Thursday, November 21st. This is the 7th day of my trip and our 5th of 6 full days in Arizona. We drove from Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument to Saguaro National Park West where we did an exploratory drive, then to our motel in...

Back on November 28, I mentioned that although I thought that our drive to Oatman would be the highlight of the trip, we had another day that equalled it. This was that day, and it’s taking three posts to tell you about it (this is the second). See an...