Category: RV Travel

A brown bear family on the Chilkoot River, Alaska

(and other stuff from the final 36 hours in Haines, and the drive home 🙂 ) Although we had no solid plans for our week in Haines, we really wanted to see brown bears along the Chilkoot River, and made several drives out to the river and lake. The...
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Beginning a week in Haines, Alaska

Cathy and I had left Whitehorse on Saturday, August 17th, with reservations at the Oceanside RV Park in Haines for 5 nights starting on Monday. After spending two nights camped in a spectacular pullout along the Haines Highway at the Summit, we headed for Haines at about 1:30 Monday...
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Six days “doing nothing” at Kluane Lake

From the morning of July 28th until the afternoon of August 3rd, Cathy and I were at Congdon Creek Campground on Kluane Lake. I wasn’t going to write a blog post because we didn’t do anything of note. But then a friend commented that perhaps that’s what is worth...
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Five nights at Conrad Campground, Yukon

This post is actually about two visits to Conrad Campground with the motorhome. The first one, on July 4th-5th, only lasted one night due to a major electrical problem. With that fixed, the second one was from July 10th through the 14th. On our first visit, our first RV...
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9 days at Kluane Lake, Yukon – Part 2 of 2

When I left you last post, I had just poured myself a celebratory glass of very good single-malt on the evening of Tuesday, September 6. The day wasn’t over yet, though. Seeing great light on the beach just before 9:00 pm, Cathy and I went down and were greeted...
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9 days at Kluane Lake, Yukon – Part 1 of 2

Although I’ve gotten ahead of myself with a couple of posts, I would still like to share our 9 days at Kluane Lake with you. I’ve gathered 65 photos so will do it in 2 posts. Although we didn’t do anything major, there was a fair bit of variety,...
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A Kluane Lake aurora show

We got home last night from 9 days at Congdon Creek Campground on Kluane Lake. A few minutes before 02:00 on September 4th, an excellent display began. As is often the case, I woke up just before it began. When the show started, I quickly got my camera gear...
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Four mornings of aurora borealis at Kluane Lake, Yukon

One of the big gifts that Mother Nature sent me during our 9 days at Congdon Creek Campground on Kluane Lake was 4 mornings of aurora borealis displays. They were a very big surprise as the aurora forecast I rely on said there was pretty much no chance of...
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A 9-day mental health break at Kluane Lake: Part 2/2

Monday, September 6th, was our 5th day away from home, our 4th full day at Congdon Creek Campground. I started the day just before 10:00 by taking Tucker with me for a drive to photograph mountains and whatever in the gorgeous sunshine. Our first stop was at the Slim’s...
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A 9-day mental health break at Kluane Lake: Part 1/2

Cathy and the dogs and I got home Friday night (September 10th) from our best “staycation” ever – 9 days with the RV at Congdon Creek Campground on Kluane Lake, with no cell service or Internet access. I’d had about all the covid and politics I could handle, so...
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