Category: Tour Bus Driving

…and being a tour/charter bus driver took that journey down some very interesting roads for 17 years until I retired from it last year. One of the roads I’ve never tired of is the North Klondike Highway to Dawson City. The photo below was taken from my room at...

The weather forecast for both Carcross and Skagway this morning was for rain, at times heavy, but when I left home at 07:30 (Yukon time) it was cloudy but warm and dry. I carried some warmer clothes than the t-shirt and shorts I wore, but hoped that the forecast...

Everyone seemed to enjoy having the morning to relax and/or explore at the Talkeetna Alaskan Lodge yesterday morning. To avoid getting to Anchorage too soon, I offered the group a chance to go to the Musk Ox Farm in Palmer as well as the scheduled stop at the Iditarod...

After a very full day on Sunday, Monday was a very leisurely one for most of us. At 0820 we departed from Fairbanks for a 4-hour trip to Denali National Park, in one of the luxurious McKinley Explorer cars on the Alaska Railroad. This was one of the things...

It’s 05:00, and there’s hardly a cloud in the sky – it’s looking like a gorgeous day to take the Alaska Railroad to Denali National Park! Yesterday (Sunday) was our “Explore Fairbanks” day. This is a city that takes some research if you’re travelling independently – it certainly doesn’t...

I had no Internet access in Tok on Friday night, and the party went on too long for blogging last night 🙂 so I’m a couple of days behind. As I write this, my Web site server is down so I can’t upload it – that’s a very rare...

I love traveling! (you may have noticed that theme here 🙂 ) On Tuesday I began a new gig as a tour escort – after many years of having an escort handle the details of my groups’ tours while I drove the motorcoach and talked a lot, now I...

Getting ready to leave Anchorage at 2:10 a.m. on July 23rd, for the 735-mile day. That may seem odd (it certainly did to the hotel desk staff), but that’s when I need to leave to get home at a reasonable hour. A couple of bonuses are that I get...

July 18, 2006: Fairbanks to Denali National Park – 125 milesI dropped my group off at the Alaska Railroad for their trip to the park, while I went ahead with the motorcoach and got their luggage into their hotel rooms before meeting them at the Denali railroad depot. This...

The sign above the Trans Alaska oil pipeline interpretive site says “Canada my ass, it’s Alaska’s Gas!” – that’s one of the slogans used by the Alaskan Independence Party. It refers to the current controversy about building a natural gas pipeline down the Alaska Highway, which will require paying...