Month: April 2023

I’m pretty much convinced that the aurora borealis now wakes me up. It’s a regular occurrence the past few months to wake up in the middle of the night, step outside to an aurora show, and a few minutes later the aurora is gone. Yesterday morning, I woke up...

On April 11th, I drove to Skagway and Dyea with Bella and Tucker for the first time since January 5, 2020. Covid, of course, made drives to Skagway impossible for much of that 3 years. Although I was in Skagway last October, Cathy did most of the driving. I...

I took Bella and Tucker to Skagway and Dyea yesterday. While I’m going to write up a fairly lengthy post to describe this spectacular day, I’m going to start with this brief one, which is basically a post I made on the Alaska Cruise Lovers group on Facebook, with...

Spring hasn’t actually arrived yet – even the 14-day forecast calls for temperatures to remain well below seasonal norms. Given our above-normal snow load, the slow melt is very good news for all the people who have been flooded or threatened by floods the past two years. But yesterday...

While improving ExploreNorth and The ExploreNorth Blog is an ongoing process, other parts of my network die. I opened “Everything Husky!” in 1999, but as of a few minutes ago it is effectively closed, with most pages except about 35 pages of evergreen content deleted. Linking to other sites...