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June 4, Day 4 of our trip and Day 3 aboard the cruise ship Nieuw Amsterdam, included an 8-hour stop at Ketchikan, Alaska. None of my family members had any plans for the day, and Cathy and I only went into town for a walk and a look through...

I was up early for some ship exploring and possible blogging on June 3rd, which would be a day of sailing north along BC’s spectacular coast. The first photo, of the Lido Bar in the centre of Deck 9 behind the Lido Pool, was shot at 04:40. The Sea...

As I start writing this, it’s Sunday, June 16. Cathy and I flew from Whitehorse to Vancouver on June 1st, and arrived home the night of the 14th. The heart of the trip was a 7-night cruise from Vancouver to Whittier on Holland America’s Nieuw Amsterdam with two of...

Cathy and I are flying to Vancouver on Saturday to board the cruise ship Nieuw Amsterdam for a 7-night cruise to Whittier, Alaska. So now that the dust has settled from Cathy’s retirement, I’m thinking a lot about cruising – not just the upcoming one, but some of the...

On Sunday, May 19th, Cathy and I took advantage of the Yukoner’s Special that the White Pass & Yukon Route railway offers every Victoria Day long weekend, and rode the train from Fraser to Skagway and back. We chose that rounder because it makes Customs clearance very simple –...

I said in my last post that the next one would be about riding the White Pass & Yukon Route train to Skagway, but I was wrong. The day before than (Saturday, May 16th) I went for a walk at the difficult-to-access southern part of the Whitehorse airport trail...

It’s hard to say what started this, but I noted yesterday that I had shot a dozen photos of Whitehorse from the top of the clay cliffs – part of the airport trail network – on May 14, 2000. I posted two of the ones that show the most...

On Wednesday (May 1st), I finally made it to what had been my planned destination, the trail to the Venus mine, a few minutes before 1 pm. Then I immediately changed my plan again – there was a vehicle there. So I drove back a few hundred meters to...

On Wednesday (May 1st), I decided on the spur of the moment to do my almost-annual because-I-still-can hike up to the upper adit of the historic Venus silver mine. That’s not the way the day played out, though – here’s the first of two posts about what I did...

I always get a bit impatient this time of year – we’re having a lengthy spell of spectacular days, but the nights are still well below freezing (it’s -6°C/+21°F at the moment and I just lit the woodstove), so few plants are in bud yet. There are a few...