Category: Aviation – flights

July 28th was simply a travel day for Cathy and I, flying home from Vancouver. There was more, of course, but nothing worth talking about 🙂 Our flight got delayed, but we got quite a comedy show at our boarding gate at YVR. There were a bunch of guys...

Last week Cathy and I had to return to Vancouver. It was another medical trip unfortunately, but walking and photography are stress relievers for me and I put on about 35 km during the 2 full and 2 part days there. The 3 main walks are mostly what I’ll...

Cathy and I got home yesterday afternoon from a 4-day trip to Vancouver. This is the first of 3 blog posts from it – this one covers the flight down, the next will be the Vancouver experience, and the final one will be about the Indian residential school memorial...

From May 3rd to the 8th, Cathy and I flew and drove to Qualicum Beach to attend a surprise party for my eldest sister’s 75th birthday. It was a wonderful trip – this is the first of 4 fairly brief (well, brief for me 🙂 ) blog posts about...

I’ve been itching to go somewhere for a while. Something easy and short – just a head-clearing sort of trip. Last week, with a good weather forecast in both places, I booked an Air North flight to from Whitehorse to Vancouver Sunday morning, and 2 nights at the Executive...

I got home yesterday from a quick trip to Surrey (a suburb of Vancouver), where I went for the 50th anniversary reunion of my high school graduation class. From our little school, Princess Margaret Senior Secondary, 97 people (including some spouses) had signed up to come. It was wonderful,...

Getting into old newspapers has once again sent me on a long wandering path. This time it was a path in the midnight sun, one of the things I love the most about the North. This little journey began when I stumbled across an ad for Alaskan Airways’ Midnight...

I’m currently in Calgary, on Day 5 of a 14-day series of family visits in Alberta and Ontario. It was gorgeous when I left Whitehorse, but a wild blizzard hit the next morning in Calgary. At 4:45 Sunday evening, we were about ready to board one of Air North’s...

Yesterday morning I was cooking up a storm, getting some chili and meatloaf in stock for an RV trip that was to start today. Then I got a call about some historic sites along Lake Bennett. That led to an invitation to go flying to check the sites out,...

Many years ago, Cathy was in the right place at the right time, and flew to Mount Logan, Canada’s highest peak at 5,959 meters high (19,551 feet). It’s also the largest non-volcanic mountain in the world in terms of mass – it’s 100 miles around the base. Last Monday...