Category: Aviation

Vancouver isn’t all that far way by air – a few minutes over 2 hours, depending on which plane you’re flying in. But the cost makes it seem a whole lot further. I’d like to go down for a one-day meeting on January 29th, but here’s today’s air-fare silliness...

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Here’s the video I mentioned last night. It was shot for Pan Americn World Airways, probably in 1946, as it features a DC-3, and in 1947 they had added DC-4s to the Alaska run. The entire film is 25 minutes long – I bought the original 16mm film on...

November 26: I had to go into the cruise office this morning for a bit. This was the view as I pulled out of the driveway – while a contrast to the scenes of recent weeks, it’s great to be home. I took Cathy’s car, which our house-sitter has...

November 25: Yesterday was a long day, and it was nice to wake up in a comfortable bed. This was our first stay at the Acclaim Hotel but it won’t be our last. The only possible downside is that a lot of their amenities are fancy/gimmicky and hard to...

November 11: We were supposed to be at sea all day today, but had to make a short stop at Grand Turk to air-evacuate a sick passenger. The Lido pool area on the Noordam is lovely but on nice days (which in the Caribbean means most days) it gets...

Princess Cruises has just started a new blog called “50 Essential Experiences”, which over the next 50 weeks will describe what Princess’ destination experts feel are the things that you must experience during your life. This week’s Essential Experience story is about the helicopter dog sledding [archived by The...

For the past 3 days I’ve been surrounding myself with little airplanes. Whitehorse is currently hosting “Century Flight 2010”, the largest gathering of airplanes in the Yukon since Word War II. The is the 2nd event organized by John Lovelace, who for 10 years was host of the television...

Cathy and I are fairly good about geting out for a walk with the dogs at least once a day. Just short ones, a loop around the property, but it’s something. When we lived in town we used to go to the airport for our walks quite often, and...

Yesterday we spent all day in Juneau, and today it was Skagway. Our weather so far has been good – very good until we reached Skagway and even today was far from being bad. Just south of Juneau (at 09:15) we spotted the first land wildlife of the cruise,...