Category: Tours & Excursions

On Tuesday, June 9th, Day 12 of the trip and our 5th day in Newfoundland, we took one of the best tours we’ve ever been on – 2 hours sailing the 16-km length of Western Brook Pond, a strange name for one of the world’s most dramatic lakes. The...

Any of you who travel know that there’s never enough time. That’s certainly the case with Halifax, Nova Scotia – the downtown and waterfront area deserves a week of exploring. But all we have is two days. By last night – the end of Day 4 of the trip...

The weather forecast for yesterday called for sunshine and a high of 12°C/54°F. It had been about 7 months since we’d seen a day like that, so this was a day to get outside! I asked Cathy if she’d like to join me at the Yukon Wildlife Preserve and...

This is blog post #27 from our tour of northern Europe. On Thursday, July 24th, we anchored off Lerwick, the main town on the Shetland archipelago, and tendered into town. We began by looking around the town, then went on an excellent bus tour from there to the southernmost...

This is blog post #15 from our tour of Europe. On Monday and Tuesday, July 7th and 8th, we were at sea on our way to Iceland. On Wednesday, July 9th, we tendered ashore at Húsavik and took an all-day bus tour called the Diamond Circle, “a magnificent circuit...

It snowed all day today. The temperature has sat at 0°C for most of the last 18 hours. When a wind arrived with the snow about noon, it was simply awful. It’s not even October yet. Also today, Keith Halliday posted an article in the Yukon News entitled “Your...

On Monday (August 10th), I dog-sat while the rest of the group took a shuttle bus to the Eielson Visitor Center and back. On Tuesday, it was my turn. Cathy and MJ really wanted to see the dog sled demonstration, but other than that, noe of them had any...

Our second full day in Seward would have lots of variety, and we split up for a while. Our first job of the day, though, was to find a new place to park our motorhomes. Unable to find a site at the City’s waterfront parks in town, we had...

On Wednesday night (August 5th), we settled in at Seward for our first multi-night stay of the trip. We had 2 major activities planned for Seward – a marine wildlife tour and a visit to the Alaska SeaLife Center, and then whatever else might come up. On Thursday morning,...

A couple of weeks ago, I happened to notice a comment on Yukon Energy’s Facebook page that they were going to do a tour of their power production plants (both hydroelectric and diesel) the following day, and I popped a note off to them to put me on the...