On the road – grizzlies & The Great One!
I asked for grizzlies for our tour into Denali National Park today, and did Mother Nature ever deliver! I lost count, but our driver/guide said that she thought we saw 9 – the sleepy guy yawning below being the best. We not only got great grizzlies, though, we also...
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On the road – at Denali National Park
There’s been lots of variety the past couple of days, touring Fairbanks and then making our way to Denali National Park by train.We began the tour of Fairbanks with a stop at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Museum of the North, a look at the Trans Alaska Pipeline...
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On the road – Top of the World to Fairbanks
Diamond Tooth Gertie’s in Dawson City was fun as always, even though almost everyone left after the first show. Maybe they just figured that after watching Barry performing on stage, everything else would be a let-down! 🙂 Yesterday morning, we began our adventure across the Top of the World...
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Yukon & Alaska airlines
Airlines, along with banks and government, are favorite targets for people in general to vent about. In the Yukon and Alaska, however, we have airlines that people brag about, despite the fact that the airlines have, at times, some of the toughest weather conditions on earth to deal with....
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User-pay for excess policing – way to go, Anchorage!
The Anchorage city police have had enough of people being bad neighbours, and have started billing them for their ignorance. Some problem homes in Anchorage are getting 90 or more calls by police a year, according to Anchorage police Sgt. Denny Allen. After the 8th callout in a year,...
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Alaska-Yukon adventures – easy but unusual ones
Getting off the usual tourist route seems to be less common each year, so I really enjoying hearing from people who are doing it. In the last couple of days, I received 2 emails that point to images I’d like you to see. First, “SueT”, a frequent poster on...
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Alaska travel articles – try a little harder to get it right!
It really bugs me to find travel articles that have either serious or many errors. The newly-posted article “Taking the Long Road: Exploring Alaska’s Scenic Highways” by Jamie Ehrlich (at http://www.frommers.com/articles/4847.html – now heavily edited from when I first saw it and wrote this post) is full of errors...
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Alaskan Clydesdale
You might enjoy this email I received this morning: Only in Alaska… This guy raised an abandoned moose calf with his horses, and believe it or not, he has trained it for lumber removal and other hauling tasks. Given the 2,000 pounds of robust muscle, and the splayed, grippy...
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Truths in Alaska? Read Craig Medred
Every place needs a writer or 2 or 6 who thinks about what’s going on and what’s being said by others – I mean really thinks – and then writes about his assessments. My favourite Alaskan writer in that vein is Craig Medred, whose columns appear in the Anchorage...
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There are no elephants in Alaska
At least as of last night there are no elephants in Alaska. Maggie, a 2-ton, 25-year-old African elephant, has spent most of her life at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage, but last night was flown in a C-17 military cargo plane to the Performing Animal Welfare Society facility in...
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