Category: Museums & Archives

Yukon RVing: Dawson City

As slow-paced and relaxing as this trip was, there’s never enough time. After a leisurely morning and lunch at Tombstone Mountain Campground on Monday, we started the 113 kilometer (70 mile) drive to Dawson City just before 1:00. We stopped for a photo at the Welcome to Dawson sign,...
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A day at Pearl Harbor – USS Arizona Memorial

The only big day we had planned for Oahu was a visit to Pearl Harbor, which we had booked months ago for the 4 of us. The USS Arizona Memorial was the first priority, next was the Pacific Aviation Museum, and if we had any time left there were...
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Exploring Lahaina, Hawai’i

On Friday and Saturday, we were in Lahaina, Maui. I had a 5-hour scuba charter booked for Saturday morning, but other than that we had no plans. Seeing the sun rise from the top of Haleakala is one of the must-sees on Maui, but even with our overnight stay,...
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Day 6: Driving through Montana & Alberta

There were 2 primary focuses for Wednesday – first, get the motorhome paperwork done at the border (and I had no idea how long that would take), and meet my daughter and grand-daughters for dinner. Beyond, it was just “see what happens”, as usual. I was in bed early...
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Exploring Astoria, Oregon

Astoria was the port I was really looking forward to on this cruise on the Norwegian Sun I may have passed through briefly during a drive a few decades ago, but had never had a good look at the community. A couple of history-oriented friends in Whitehorse like it,...
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Fairbanks, and the drive to Tok

Over the last couple of days we’ve traveled from Healy to Fairbanks and had a look around that city, then continued on back to Tok, where we stayed last night. We arrived at Golden Heart Park in Fairbanks just before 11:00 am on Friday. This statue is called The...
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New boats and old boats and and great food in Vancouver

Wednesday was a slower day than the previous couple during which we had walked many miles exploring Vancouver. We thought that 4 days would allow plenty of time, but it hasn’t – once again, we’ll be leaving Vancouver with many things still on the “to-do” list. This was the...
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Exploring Fairbanks and the University of Alaska

Yesterday was our day to explore Fairbanks. This was my 1-bedroom apartment at the Wedgewood Resort. This was the view from my apartment yesterday at 03:29, half an hour before sunrise. There’s lots of interesting stuff to look at on the walk over to the restaurant, which is at...
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Canada Day in Whitehorse, Yukon

Canada Day 2011 was good fun in Whitehorse, even though it started out to be a very cold morning. The events were all held at Shipyards Park (as seems to be the norm now). We began the day at the charity pancake breakfast run by the Knights of Columbus....
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Being a tourist at Whitehorse – museums, bears and more…

I got distracted a bit, but now I’m back to my week being a tourist at home. For Sunday, June 19th, the plan was to tour around Whitehorse, visit the Transportation Museum and the Beringia Interpretive Centre, then drive up to Tagish to see one of my cousins and...
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