Off on a major road trip around BC and Alberta
The blog design is boring but not “buggy” now, and will remain that way for the next 3-4 weeks until I get back from a major road trip. I’m leaving early tomorrow for 3 weeks, with some of the destinations being: May 9: Calgary to see my daughter and...
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Folks, it’s time to SLOW DOWN!
You would think that Yukoners would know how to drive on icy roads, wouldn’t you? The roads are extra-icy right now, and the number of vehicles off in the bush is amazing – people who were just driving too fast. Usually accidents here are single-car because there are few...
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Fall colours in the Yukon
Sorry, the reds, yellows and oranges you were hoping for dropped onto the ground many weeks ago. The photo below was shot on the way home from Whitehorse at noon today. The colours of Fall are now black and white. I fired up my SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) therapy...
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A Yukon Sunday drive
Yesterday was a gorgeous day to get out, and it looked like pretty much every Yukoner had the same idea. Our reasonably warm, sunny days are about to end, and traffic was quite heavy on the Alaska Highway – by our standards that means that there were occasionally 6...
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Yukon Fall colours tour
As colourful as our property is right now, yesterday was a good opportunity for a Fall Colours Tour. We decided to head west along the Alaska Highway for a change, and Burwash Landing would make a good turn-around location. It was a long day – we put just over...
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The natural gas pipeline – friend or foe???
Members of the Alaska House of Representatives voted yesterday to approve an exclusive state license for TransCanada Gas to move ahead with the studies preparatory to building a natural gas pipeline down the Alaska Highway to Alberta. It still has to pass the Senate, but this vote was a...
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Land of the Midnight Sunsets
Just as people who have outhouses see more auroras, people who do long-distance driving see more great sunsets. Last night, as I neared the end of my 15-hour Glenora-Whitehorse day, was notable in that regard. The 3 photos below were shot along Teslin Lake at 11:15 pm; along Teslin...
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Road Trip – Whitehorse to Calgary
It’s time for a major road trip to see some of my family in Calgary and Kelowna. It was timed so that I could help my daughter and grand-daughters move when I reached Calgary. I left the house at 6:15 am on April 13th with the temperature at 0°C....
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Travel reviews
When you’re running Web sites, paying attention to the details of your stats is important so you can focus where the interest is – if that’s also within the range of your own interests, too, of course. Among the searches that bring people here, travel reviews of various kinds...
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Alaska Highway – “We want speed, not character!”
Last Saturday (the 6th), Cathy and I loaded the dogs into the Outback and headed out to +D-Bay” for lunch (it’s offically Destruction Bay, but nobody around here uses that name). The weather wasn’t particular nice and it might seem a little odd to drive 170 miles to have...
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