Yesterday was our day to explore Dawson City – on tour in the morning, then with a free afternoon. My days always start early, but even more so on when I’m on tour – there’s simply a lot to do 🙂 There are a surprising number of motorcycles in...

After the spectacular weather we had yesterday, the cool-and-cloudy I got up to yesterday morning wasn’t a nice sight, but it was easy to see that it was much better weather for the long driving day ahead. We left the Westmark Whitehorse hotel at 09:00, made a short stop...

This is probably going to be a year with no cruises for us, but as regular readers have noticed, I am still getting out and about a lot. Yesterday afternoon I was at the Whitehorse airport to meet 14 people from New Zealand, and today we begin an 11-day...

One more post about history then I have to get back to work! From the collection I got yesterday I’ve taken a piece from an article in the Yukon News Magazine of September 1965. It describes what’s along the Alaska Highway from Marsh Lake to Whitehorse. It’s different but...

What is history? What historic material – documents and other material – is worth saving? Those are two of the most basic questions that form the foundation of a collection of historic items. I’ve been collecting in a small way for over 45 years now – it’s mostly trivial...

After being city folks without dogs on Canada Day, we decided to head south somewhere with the fur-kids on July 2nd. The weather was erratic and as we drove down the South Klondike Highway we tossed around a few ideas. I suggested that Lewes Lake might be fun to...

Canada Day 2011 was good fun in Whitehorse, even though it started out to be a very cold morning. The events were all held at Shipyards Park (as seems to be the norm now). We began the day at the charity pancake breakfast run by the Knights of Columbus....

I got distracted a bit, but now I’m back to my week being a tourist at home. For Sunday, June 19th, the plan was to tour around Whitehorse, visit the Transportation Museum and the Beringia Interpretive Centre, then drive up to Tagish to see one of my cousins and...

If you’re at all interested in photography, you’ve either heard about the light field camera or you will soon – even if you don’t read about it here. 🙂 To see it’s biggest “wow!” feature, click once anywhere on the photo below [Edit: sorry, the “live” image is gone...

The weather forecast yesterday morning was good for that day but then we’re in for a long spell of cloudy, wet days so I decided to take the motorcycle east down the Alaska Highway for a few hours. The probable destination was Teslin, 163 kilometers (101 miles) from home....