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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Spring road trip on the Alaska Highway
There may still be 4 feet of snow on the ground, but it must be Spring, because I have an overpowering wanderlust. Thanks to a couple of well-timed out-of-town meetings, though, that wanderlust is getting soothed. On Friday I drove to Liard Hot Springs, a few hours early and...
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Yukon highway lodges – more of the story
As well as the article about Yukon bloggers (which I think was poorly executed) in yesterday’s Yukon News, there was an article about Yukon highway lodges being forced to close, supposedly because of the government’s new health regulations and the related costs of new septic systems. Bear Creek Lodge,...
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By motorcoach through the Yukon & Alaska: Anchorage to Whitehorse
Getting ready to leave Anchorage at 2:10 a.m. on July 23rd, for the 735-mile day. That may seem odd (it certainly did to the hotel desk staff), but that’s when I need to leave to get home at a reasonable hour. A couple of bonuses are that I get...
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