A day on the HMCS Whitehorse at Skagway
I’m going to break into my series of posts about being a tourist in Whitehorse to tell you about our day sailing on HMCS Whitehorse out of Skagway yesterday. There was a single notice about this event in the newspaper a couple of weeks ago, and City Hall was...
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This was the weather we dream about
On a scale of 1 to 10, today rated 11 – it was incredible. The temperature hit the high 20s C (low 80s F), and there were no clouds, no bugs and no wind. This is the day I’ll dream about in the middle of our next winter –...
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Justice & the Law – not the same thing at all
I expect that almost all of you remember when, on March 24, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Alaska’s spectacular Prince William Sound. Many of you probably don’t know that the court case against Exxon is still going on. Last year, the 9th U.S. Circuit...
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Selling Water or…?
Bottled water is a tough market to break into, with the big box stores selling it for what appears to be about the cost of the bottle. Barry Enders in Whitehorse has just begun serious marketing of his bottled water at several times the cost of the big-box water...
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