Some days I need to take a walk to clear my head. Sometimes a short walk around the property will do, sometimes it takes a longer one. Luckily, there are a virtually infinite number of great walks close at hand here. Last Tuesday I took the motorcycle down the...

As in most communities, restaurants/cafes come and go frequently in Whitehorse. In many cases it really is sad to see, as we’ve lost some very good places to eat in recent years. One of the types of eateries that’s gaining in popularity, though, is the roadside wagon – we’ve...

Cathy and I were in need of an adventure yesterday – just one day of something unique. We decided that the South Canol Road would fit the bill nicely – a truly unique drive that few people ever do. So yesterday morning, with the temperature sitting at 0°C (32°F)...

Why bother forecasting the weather when the forecasts are usually wrong anyway? Look at the 2 forecasts below, both for Whitehorse a couple of minutes ago. The top one is the one I usually use for no particular reason other than that they have a handy widget, Environment Canada....

Last week during a chat on Facebook with a woman I’ve been talking to online for years, she asked if Cathy and I would like to join her and her husband at the Frantic Follies vaudeville show. The answer was definitely “yes”! This is the 42nd season for the...

For the past 2 weeks I’ve been posting reports from the tour I’ve been driver/guide for, a trip from Whitehorse, Yukon to Seward, Alaska for Maher Tours of New Zealand. After leaving them at their cruise ship in Seward, I always do one more thing with my Maher groups...

It’s now Sunday morning and I’m back home after a superb 12-day trip through the Yukon and Alaska. The first photo is the view from our breakfast nook at 07:00 when I started writing this. Another beautiful dawn in Anchorage – this was shot from my suite in The...

The early dawn light yesterday morning as seen from my hotel room at 04:45. The intersection of 4th Avenue and E Street at 04:50. A corner of the lobby of the our hotel, The Historic Anchorage Hotel. We got away on our city tour at 09:00. We had no...

It’s such a shame that we had to leave Denali on a sunny morning! But, off we went at 9:00, heading south on the George Parks Highway towards Anchorage. About 40 minutes later, I stopped at one of my secret spots, a large complex of beaver dams. Construction of...

Yesterday was our earliest start, as the departure time for our Tundra Wilderness Tour (TWT) into Denali National Park was 06:50. Although I heard my group go much earlier, I dawdled and didn’t get to the Courtyard Cafe in our hotel, the McKinley Chalet, until almost 06:00. I was...