Category: Road Trip

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,...

On Sunday, November 17, we drove 195 miles from Phoenix to Kingman, arriving at about 1:45. Kingman is one of the places that anyone with an interest in Route 66 must visit, being in the heart of the longest remaining stretch of Route 66 (158 miles). Starting in Chicago...

Sunday, November 17th – the stress of getting to Arizona was past. In my current state it’s hard to believe that I used to travel, and arrange and coordinate travel, for a living. But for the next week we’d be on the road in a particularly beautiful car, so...

After the marathon day previous, Cathy and I were looking forward to a relaxing day on June 10th. It was only 187 km total to our destination, a historic hotel in Powell River, with most of the route new to Cathy. And having two ferry rides would be fun...

At the end of the last post, Tyson and I had turned back onto the Dempster Highway at 1:05 on April 10th, and were headed for an overnight stay at Dawson City. This post covers a lot of spectacular miles, and has 54 photos. Of course I have a...

It took me a while to figure out how to show you the Dempster Highway, as I shot 197 photos on the day we drove it, April 10th. I hope that two posts will be reasonable – Inuvik to Fort McPherson, then Fort McPherson to Dawson City. Actually only...

On Tuesday, April 9th, my friend Tyson and I drove the ice road from Inuvik to Aklavik, but this post shows more than the title indicates. We also drove back to Inuvik in very different weather conditions, took a side trip on the ice road to historic Reindeer Station,...

Although I’m not nearly finished showing you the Arctic trip, it’s Spring and the weather is wonderful, so there are other things happening that I also want to show you. I probably wouldn’t have posted about our outing to photograph the migrating swans yesterday, but then as I went...

On Monday, April 8th, Tyson and I drove from Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk and back, with a lot of exploring and some visiting in Tuk. Here’s another orientation map – during a 3-day period, we would visit all five of the communities shown on the government road conditions map. The...

I’ve been watching the weather forecasts to make another try to get to Skagway, and yesterday, though not great, was the best day in Skagway for 10 days or so, and was forecast to get as the day progressed. in both Skagway and Whitehorse. The day turned out to...