Month: July 2007

It’s just after 0500, and the MS Amsterdam is a couple of hours from our rendezvous with the NPS rangers who will guide us around Glacier Bay for most of the day. It’s 55 degrees with a light misty rain and a cloud ceiling of perhaps 4,000 feet –...

Yukon ambulances are run by volunteers in most communities, and they’re being overworked. Attendants in Dawson City and Watson Lake have now quit, and attendants in other communities may follow. A few days ago our Minister of Health Brad Cathers said on CBC Radio that he doesn’t really want...

The weather forecast for both Carcross and Skagway this morning was for rain, at times heavy, but when I left home at 07:30 (Yukon time) it was cloudy but warm and dry. I carried some warmer clothes than the t-shirt and shorts I wore, but hoped that the forecast...

I spent 3/4 of an hour posting yesterday, then lost the whole thing to a power failure just as I hit “Publish”. Ah, the joys of technology – I guess I should go back to writing the posts in Notepad instead of online. On Friday, the group left for...

Everyone seemed to enjoy having the morning to relax and/or explore at the Talkeetna Alaskan Lodge yesterday morning. To avoid getting to Anchorage too soon, I offered the group a chance to go to the Musk Ox Farm in Palmer as well as the scheduled stop at the Iditarod...

The Maher group was yet again blessed in Denali National Park yesterday – the variety of animals we saw was wonderful, and some were in unusual places compared to my last 25+ trips into the park. We left the McKinley Chalet hotel on the Tundra Wildernes Tour (TWT) bus...

After a very full day on Sunday, Monday was a very leisurely one for most of us. At 0820 we departed from Fairbanks for a 4-hour trip to Denali National Park, in one of the luxurious McKinley Explorer cars on the Alaska Railroad. This was one of the things...

It’s 05:00, and there’s hardly a cloud in the sky – it’s looking like a gorgeous day to take the Alaska Railroad to Denali National Park! Yesterday (Sunday) was our “Explore Fairbanks” day. This is a city that takes some research if you’re travelling independently – it certainly doesn’t...

I had no Internet access in Tok on Friday night, and the party went on too long for blogging last night 🙂 so I’m a couple of days behind. As I write this, my Web site server is down so I can’t upload it – that’s a very rare...

I love traveling! (you may have noticed that theme here 🙂 ) On Tuesday I began a new gig as a tour escort – after many years of having an escort handle the details of my groups’ tours while I drove the motorcoach and talked a lot, now I...