Category: Campgrounds

Hiking Newfoundland’s Skerwink Trail

Friday, June 26th, Day 29 of our trip and the 22nd day in Newfoundland, involved a lot of walking. I started the day with 3.5 km on the Coastal Trail at Cape Bonavista, then drove south for the 5.9-km Skerwink Trail, then put in another 1.9 km wandering the...
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To Green Point, with a shipwreck and a UNESCO geologic site

Following our Western Brook Pond boat tour, it was only 23 km to Green Point Campground where we had a reservation. After 10 minutes on the road, though, a sign reminded us of the S.S. Ethie shipwreck at Martin’s Point, and I pulled in there. It’s a very scenic...
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Canoeing the Yukon River, Part 4: Carmacks to Fort Selkirk

This post begins as we departed from Carmacks on Saturday morning, August 16th (Day 6 of the trip) and ends as we arrived at Fort Selkirk in the afternoon of Sunday, August 17th. I thought I was going to be able to tell this story with four posts, but...
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Canoeing the Yukon River, Part 3: on to Carmacks

This post covers our journey starting below Shipyard Island at about 1:00 pm on Thursday, August 14th (Day 4 of the trip), and ending as we were leaving Carmacks on the morning of Saturday, August 16th (Day 6). The first photo was taken about 10 minutes after leaving Shipyard...
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Driving from Lake Havasu City to Quartzsite, Arizona

By about 12:15 on Monday, November 18th, we were back on Highway 95, headed south to Quartzsite, 79 miles away. We made a couple of interesting detours on the way, though. See an interactive map here. I suppose this drive could get boring and that’s why so many people...
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Beginning a week in Haines, Alaska

Cathy and I had left Whitehorse on Saturday, August 17th, with reservations at the Oceanside RV Park in Haines for 5 nights starting on Monday. After spending two nights camped in a spectacular pullout along the Haines Highway at the Summit, we headed for Haines at about 1:30 Monday...
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Six days “doing nothing” at Kluane Lake

From the morning of July 28th until the afternoon of August 3rd, Cathy and I were at Congdon Creek Campground on Kluane Lake. I wasn’t going to write a blog post because we didn’t do anything of note. But then a friend commented that perhaps that’s what is worth...
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