Category: Personal

I’m off on tour in a couple of hours – we’ll be in Seward, Alaska 11 days from now and then after my group boards the Celebrity Millennium for a cruise to Vancouver it will take me a couple of days to get back to Whitehorse. I’m guiding this...

After not using my cabin in Carcross for many months at a time, and then only for day trips, it’s time to sell it and move on to the next stage of my life. So as of this afternoon, it’s for sale by owner, listed at Propertyguys.com. The intro...

I collect ads. I’ve been collecting ads for decades. Amongst all the advertising trash that bombards us day after day there really are some gems. Some are brilliant, some hilarious, some particularly artistic, and some just resonate with me. It’s the state of Wyoming’s ad in the May issue...

You know, time has a way of moving quickly and catching you unaware of the passing years. It seems just yesterday that I was young, just married and embarking on my new life with my mate. And yet in a way, it seems like eons ago, and I wonder...

One of the comments on my storm cleanup post got me to thinking about how many people aren’t where they want to be in a physical sense, and a post yesterday at Aasman’s site expanded that same question to the psychological place. I regularly re-evaluate where I am in...

The pain never really does go away, does it? I was just going through my photos looking for some commercial submissions and found a photo of Kodi, taken at the Pennington section house on Lake Bennett back in August 2003. He had, as he did so often, gone on...

Many businesses in the Yukon say that they don’t understand why there are so many people like me who do a lot of their shopping Outside. Here’s today’s example of why we do it. When I decided a few weeks ago to get a motorcycle, I expected to buy...

I wonder if the cliche about men past “a certain age” buying a red convertible to regain their young (and perhaps adding a young blonde in the right seat) was ever true? In my world in the past couple of decades at least, the red convertible has been replaced...

Cathy and I went to the Carcross cabin yesterday, to show it to a young couple who are interested in buying it. Cathy doesn’t want to sell it, and going there makes her a bit sad. We had a lot of good times there (among many other events large...

Cathy and I have made the difficult decision to sell the Carcross property. I truly loved living there and said many times that I’d never leave, but since moving to Mary Lake it just doesn’t get used. What we talk about in terms of recreation now involves seeing the...