Category: Alaska Highway

Sometimes things don’t work out the way you’d planned, but as long as you’re adaptable, what happens can still be enjoyable. That was certainly the case with this 11-hour, 585-km drive to Burwash Landing on Kluane Lake and back. The aurora forecast for Sunday night called for a very...

Everyone who travels a lot develops their own style, their own preferences. For me, it’s all about the journey – in most cases, getting to a “destination” is anticlimactic and I want to get moving again. When Home is the destination, however, different rules apply, and it was wonderful...

I never thought that I’d get 2 great Northern Lights photography nights in a row, but it just happened. This morning’s aurora didn’t last as long as it did yesterday, but for a few minutes the display was even more spectacular. The aurora forecast was good, so I went...

Usually, getting up before 04:00 isn’t a good start to my day. However, today it was, in a major way. As soon as I fired up the computer I saw some notices on the Yukon Aurora Alert page I set up a few months ago, saying that there had...

We had driven 944 kilometers from Whitehorse to Fort Nelson on Thursday, and our destination for this night was Quesnel, some 970 km south. We filled up the gas tank at $1.329 when we arrived last night, and after a good breakfast, were on the road at 07:20, with...

My niece and I are on our way to Vancouver. She’s not comfortable with driving 3,000 kilometers by herself this time of year, and – well, I’m her uncle 🙂 This was the weather forecast for the entire route – not too bad. Mostly warmish with a bit of...

As our changing climate makes cloudy skies the norm during a Whitehorse winter, aurora borealis viewing gets less and less likely. Yesterday, once again seeing the frustrating combination of great aurora forecasts and cloudy skies, I decided to drive to wherever the sky was clear so I could see...

For our first “no-services” camping weekend with the RV, we chose Congdon Creek Campground on Kluane Lake, and it was perfect, with spectacular scenery and Fall colours. I had the rig ready to go when Cathy got home from work Friday night, and stopping for dinner at the Otter...

Friday night was a fairly short one – I went to bed at the top of the Sikanni Chief hill, and was back on the Alaska Highway well before 05:00. I don’t think that the people protesting a new pipeline in BC have any idea how many hundreds of...

Summer has finally returned to the Yukon, and yesterday I was dying to get back on my motorcycle. Checking out the recently-reopened Johnson’s Crossing Lodge, 110 km down the Alaska Highway, was as good an excuse as any 🙂 What a superb day to be on 2 wheels. There...