Month: August 2008

There was an interesting bird at the Whitehorse airport yesterday that may well be the start of serious money funnelling through this town. C-GIPI is a 1980 Dehavilland DHC-7-102 (commonly known as a Dash 7) conducting geotechnical surveys. My guess, due to the size of the aircraft, is that...

Every time I drive by the former Airline Inn on the Alaska Highway, I have to chuckle. This is being heavily promoted as Whitehorse’s newest luxury hotel. Some day. What it looks like is a cheap reno of a former $50-a-night dive. The photo of a very narrow hallway...

All of you who travel by air know that the level of service on all airlines is getting lower and lower as they try to cut costs to stay competitive. That’s particularly true this year with skyrocketing (pun intended) fuel costs. One of the things that’s missing on most...

Despite the fact that it was a long weekend and Whitehorse was pretty much a ghost town, the garage sale was a success, and very little had to go to the landfill. A few hundred pounds of paper (mostly photography magazines ) went to Raven Recycling, there’s a small...

Perhaps you sometimes need to travel without your partner, and then get to a great spot where you really miss him/her. Here’s a fun trick to great memories – have a photo taken of yourself and add him/her in later with Photoshop! I think the photos below took 3...

Garage sales can be fun – both going to them and having them. I’ve already got too much “stuff” so haven’t been to one in a long time now (a long time as in years), but it’s time to do “the final sort” to get things cleaned up and...

The US Department of Transportation released a report yesterday on the continuing decline in the number of miles the average American drives. Among the statistics, “Americans drove 4.7 percent less, or 12.2 billion miles fewer, in June 2008 than June 2007″, and used nearly 400 million fewer gallons of...

How long do you think that YTBayonline.com will last? Maybe they’ve never heard of copyright infringement, and how little sense of humour companies like eBay have about it… The Angel’s Nest youth shelter project is certainly worth looking at, but a “fund-raiser” like this puts them off to a...