Category: Aviation

A few things stacked up yesterday to lure me into Whitehorse last night. First, I had seen two corporate jets I didn’t recognize when I was in town getting groceries, without a camera. Then a friend messaged me that four black helicopters had arrived. And finally I saw a...

Getting home from Halifax was a 2-day, 3-flight, 1-hotel process on July 8th and 9th, Days 41 and 42 of the trip. Our final stop with the RV was a gas station before returning it to Fraserway. They opened at 09:00 and we were there 15 minutes later, having...

On Tuesday, July 7th, Day 40 of our trip and the 8th day in Nova Scotia, we drove 250 km from the Hyclass Ocean Campground near Havre Boucher to the Woodhaven RV Park in Hammonds Plains, with a visit to the Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum. Our GPS had warned...

Sunday, June 28th, Day 31 of our trip and the 24th day in Newfoundland, was an extremely varied day, going from the quiet of Chance Cove to the bustle of St. John’s, with a stop at Harbour Grace, an aviation mecca I could spend many hours at. We spent...

Saturday, June 13, Day 16 of our trip and the 9th day in Newfoundland, was intended to be a full day at St. Anthony with another overnight stay there, but turned out to be a partial day then we drove south to Port au Choix to get better weather....

We’ve started our 41-day Adventure to Newfoundland. This is now Day 4 – we arrived in Halifax yesterday afternoon. The journey began early on May 27th, with a 06:20 Air North flight from Whitehorse to Calgary, where we’d spend 2 days visiting family. The weather forecast had indicated it...

Cathy and I flew to Vancouver on Tuesday, April 14th, and returned home on Friday the 17th. After a brutal winter of record-breaking cold and then snow, it was wonderful. It began as a medical trip – a 6-month post-surgery checkup for me – but we added an extra...

This week, Whitehorse was part of an historic event for the Indonesian Air Force – we were one of the stops on the delivery flight of their second new Airbus A400M Atlas aircraft, tail number A-4002, serial number 150. Two A400Ms were ordered by Indonesia in 2021, but last...

This is 30th and final blog post from our 38-day tour of northern Europe (in the Post Archives, the tour posts start on June 24th, 2025). This post is for people who are passionate about travel, for people who are fascinated by airports, and in particular for window-seat junkies...

This is blog post #16 from our tour of northern Europe. At 10 pm on Wednesday, July 9th, we docked at the Akureyri cruise ship dock that was built in 2019 to encourage more visits. We had been scheduled to arrive at 08:00 on July 10th, but we were...