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...

The weather forecast for the next few days wasn’t great, so Friday seemed like the best day to go to Skagway. On the way down we stopped to see our cabin at Carcross and lucked into being on the deck there when the train to Skagway departed. The “must-do”...

Whitehorse is a great town to be a tourist in. As well as having spectacular wilderness not only at our back door but within the city boundaries, we have a large number of really high quality man-made attractions. We had company from southern British Columbia last week (one of...

Tonight at 5:30 pm on the My Yukon Life online radio show, the guest will be Norman Winther, a Yukon trapper who portrayed himself in Nicholas Vanier’s 2004 docu-drama, “The Last Trapper”. He’ll be sharing some his experiences with listeners of My Yukon Life and will reveal the story...

Have you heard about the Motorcycle Ride For Dad yet? Its mission is to raise funds in order to save men’s lives by supporting prostate cancer research while at the same time raising public awareness of the disease. See ridefordad.ca for much more information about rides across the country....

It’s looking like it might be a very cool and wet summer this year, but there are soooo many things I want to do and see! We’re probably not going on any cruises this year, but there are lots of short trips on the list of options. I’ve been...

Day 3 began very early – I went to sleep early last night and I was out taking pictures around Chicken before 06:00 this morning. It was a chilly morning – 39°F (4°C). This is the side road off the Taylor Highway that takes you to the Chicken Gold...

Day 2 dawned wet. With the weather forecast suggesting that the rain would end in the morning I decided to take advantage of being in no hurry and wait it out, so I fueled up, went for a leisurely breakfast down the road at Buckshot Betty’s and wandered around...

I’ve been putting off any long trips on the motorcycle due to erratic forecasts and lots of rain activity, but decided on Tuesday that it was time to just get on and go. I decided that a 3-day trip up the Alaska and Taylor Highways to Chicken, Alaska and...