Category: Airports

The first day of our new adventure was wonderful – lots of new sights and stunning weather virtually all the way. There are always “bumps” when you travel but ours were minor. Here’s a look at the day… Leaving Whitehorse, with the Yukon River visible below. We took the...

A few days ago I was downtown putting gas in Subie when I heard a lot of roaring up at the airport. By the time I got up there, the last of 5 or 6 Firecats had just taken off. I decided that I really need a VHF/UHF scanner...

As much as I love traveling, I love getting home too (though I could easily have delayed the arrival home from New Zealand for another month or so 🙂 ). The trip from Anchorage to Whitehorse yesterday was fairly complex, and not an itinerary you’ll find on any travel-agent...

Restaurants come and go regularly in Whitehorse, sometimes due to changes in the quality of the service and/or food (which means that Ricky’s will be the next to go), sometimes seemingly due merely to the fickle nature of public opinion. For the past 3 years or so, the most...

I spent 3/4 of an hour posting yesterday, then lost the whole thing to a power failure just as I hit “Publish”. Ah, the joys of technology – I guess I should go back to writing the posts in Notepad instead of online. On Friday, the group left for...