Category: History

Last September I posted an article about “Paddling BC’s Bowron Lakes circuit in 1968,” a trip that I have many photos of but no memory of. That was an enjoyable way to recreate a significant adventure and it brought back some tiny fragments of memories of the trip. This...

My project yesterday (February 27th) was to document the entire Waterfront Trail, to show people what it looks like as a reply to some online complaints about how the new buildings in Whitehorse have ruined the views of the river we used to have. In actual fact, we now...

I haven’t been getting out much this winter, but the past few days I’ve finally pulled myself away from my desk and got out a few times. Nothing very exciting, but here’s a bit of what the Whitehorse area looks like in January. It’s been a very strange winter...

This post is about a mystery that’s been in my files for 35 years, that I have finally solved. There are two creeks in British Columbia named Airplane Creek. One is a tributary of the upper Stikine River, but this post is about the one east of Chilliwack. It...

Ajo was a surprise to me. I had never heard of it, and it didn’t look like much from a quick search while I was planning this trip. But I wish I had had 3 days to explore, because it’s got a fascinating history and the surrounding country has...

This post describes our drive from Yuma to Ajo, with a detour to the Painted Rock Petroglyph Site, on Wednesday, November 20th. See an interactive map of the basic route here. When we shot the first photo at 11:23 (I was driving so Andrea shot it), we were on...

Here we are at Day 6 of the trip – Wednesday, November 20th. Our day began at the Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park, then we drove 160 miles to Ajo for the night. I was going to do the entire day in one post, but it got too...

On Tuesday, November 19th, my daughter and I visited the Hi Jolly Cemetery at Quartzsite, then made the easy 85-mile drive to Yuma, where we visited the grave of one of the Yukon’s best-known early characters, “Arizona Charlie” Meadows. See an interactive map of the basic route here. At...

Although we didn’t put a lot of miles on the car on Monday, November 18th, I shot a lot of photos so am breaking the day into two posts, Kingman to Lake Havasu City, then on to Quartzsite where we overnighted. See an interactive map of the first part...

On November 18th, I posted on Facebook: “I expect that yesterday’s Route 66 afternoon will be the highlight of the trip. An excellent museum, mind-boggling scenery, and a quirky and charming little village in the middle of nowhere.” As it turned out we had another day that equalled it,...