Month: July 2014

This post was originally written for the Destination BC Blog, but when it was closed I moved it here, under the original date. Motorcycle enthusiasts around the world know BC as a dream destination for road trips, and high on the list of the best routes to ride is...

Living in the Yukon, I don’t get many opportunities to see trains other than those of the White Pass & Yukon Route (WP&YR), but they’re one of my favourite subjects when I travel, and I never pass up an opportunity to ride on a new railway. When I started...

Having three P-51 Mustangs overnight at Whitehorse brought a lot of people out to the airport for a look. They are from the Bremont Horsemen Aerobatic Team, which first took off over a decade ago as the world’s only P-51 Mustang formation aerobatic team, though they fly several other...

On Friday, my long journey home from Arizona to the Yukon began with a 04:00 wakeup call, and a 04:30 shuttle to the airport with a particularly friendly driver. By 05:45 when I shot this photo from the departure lounge at PHX, I was ready to get going, hoping...

Wednesday was planned to be a very exciting, very busy day – confirming purchase of the motorhome, getting a lot of export/import paperwork started, and perhaps even getting the rig packed for the trip back to the Yukon. It didn’t turn out that way, though. The day started early,...

I returned yesterday evening from a marathon 4-day trip to Phoenix and back. This was the final step in starting a new stage in our lives, buying a motorhome and focussing on slowing down and seeing the North in great detail instead of travelling abroad. The plan for this...

So many mountains, so little time! For 25 years I’d been driving the Alaska Highway, past the spectacular limestone peaks around Summit Lake, always wishing I could see the view from the top of one. I finally got that opportunity see the view from the top of one during...

I knew that I wouldn’t have much time in Hinton, but for a few reasons, it was even shorter than I’d expected. I went out for breakfast with the kids and at 09:30 was on the road. In Hinton, you can smell the economy (the pulp mill – “the...

From Sicamous, there are two reasonable routes to Hinton – the one through Kamloops and north on Hwy 5 is 658 km, the other up the Icefields Parkway through the heart of the Rockies is 53 km shorter, though it takes about the same time, or longer if you’re...

I got home very early Tuesday morning from another big adventure across British Columbia and the Alberta Rockies by air and land, bringing a new motorhome to Whitehorse for friends. I didn’t have time to post while I was on the road, but this is the first of probably...