Month: January 2011

I’ve been quiet here on the blog for a couple of weeks now. Life got very, very busy and there was just no time (and I wasn’t doing anything very interesting anyway), but now there’s a calm spot 🙂 This past weekend, Cathy and I made a quick trip...

We’re now in the most extreme part of winter. It can go from being very dark and ugly to being stunningly beautiful in a very short period. The first photo was shot from my desk at the travel agency on Friday at 09:53 am, with ice fog caused by...

Dreaming about a Danube River cruise, I was looking at possible flights to Europe this year. There are 4 main possibilities, but all are either awkward or expensive. For the first week of June: Condor: Whitehorse to Frankfurt and back, direct both ways – $921 per person, but only...

The world’s weather seems to get more bizarre every year. Yesterday, 49 states had snow cover according to the National Weather Service (every state but Florida, which did have snow a few days ago). Here in the Yukon, it’s looking like it will go a bit below -40°C tonight,...

“With New Year’s resolutions fresh in consumers’ minds, Princess Cruises fielded a poll to its Facebook fans to learn which destinations and travel experiences top their bucket lists in 2011. And respondents decisively answered that their number-one destination choice for the coming year is Alaska. One-fourth of respondents resolved...

It may just be my imagination, but even though the days are still very short, the light the past few days has been lovely – almost a Spring feel to it. This was the view from my home office a few minutes ago:...

Vancouver isn’t all that far way by air – a few minutes over 2 hours, depending on which plane you’re flying in. But the cost makes it seem a whole lot further. I’d like to go down for a one-day meeting on January 29th, but here’s today’s air-fare silliness...

I’m fascinated by the ways that technology is constantly providing new doors to open. Sometimes the doors lead to places that didn’t exist before, sometimes they just take you to the same place via a different route. Over the past few days it’s been Kindle that’s provided a new...