Category: Communities – Yukon

The weather forecast yesterday morning was good for that day but then we’re in for a long spell of cloudy, wet days so I decided to take the motorcycle east down the Alaska Highway for a few hours. The probable destination was Teslin, 163 kilometers (101 miles) from home....

Day 2 dawned wet. With the weather forecast suggesting that the rain would end in the morning I decided to take advantage of being in no hurry and wait it out, so I fueled up, went for a leisurely breakfast down the road at Buckshot Betty’s and wandered around...

The Victoria Day long weekend is the first weekend of summer for Yukoners, and most people want to get away somewhere – even if just a road-trip day. The weather forecasts have been erratic so we just decided on Saturday morning to head up the Alaska Highway to “Kluane...

A well designed and executed logo should say a lot about a community, and residents have every right to take it personally. The design that was chosen to “re-brand” Whitehorse recently has a lot of people upset, both because it’s a very poor design (in my opinion), and because...

Whitehorse is a dramatically different community than it was when I arrived 20 years ago, but the changes have come fairly slowly. Yesterday I took an hour and recorded some of the little changes happening now. One of the larger construction projects is the new medical staff residence at...

I seldom go anywhere without my camera, and yesterday was a good example of why. Cathy and I just had to run into Whitehorse to run a few errands – I’d forgotten my camera but Cathy grabbed it on the way out the door. As soon as we got...

A couple of envelopes I’ve received in the mail over the past few days came from tiny Alaska post offices, and made me think about how different they are from the mass-producing mail-factories that are found most places now. Just look at the postmarks on them – Nice stamps...

One of the people responsible for the residents of Carcross starting the process of banning motor vehicles from the beach apparently thinks that he’s given the community the finger. Yes, we all know who you are, loser. The photos below show the damage he did following the meeting –...

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...

Here it is near the end of Day 3 of the trip already. We’re not off to a great start but things seem to be improving. The first day in Whitehorse was so cold that we cut the city tour short because many people had just had enough of...