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...

Yesterday the people in my group had a somewhat different day than I did. While they traveled to Denali National Park in a glass-domed railway car, I went ahead with the bus. We don’t normally do early starts on these tours, but there are two – we had to...

Yesterday was our day to explore Fairbanks. This was my 1-bedroom apartment at the Wedgewood Resort. This was the view from my apartment yesterday at 03:29, half an hour before sunrise. There’s lots of interesting stuff to look at on the walk over to the restaurant, which is at...

As I start writing this, it’s a few minutes before sunrise, which will be at 4:02. It’s only 47°F (8.3°C) right now but it’s forecast to be mostly sunny with a high of 69 (20C) – a perfect day to explore Fairbanks! Much of yesterday was cold and wet,...

Another day in Dawson would be wonderful – there’s just so much to see and do. But by 09:15 yesterday morning we were on the little ferry George Black, crossing the Yukon River and saying good-bye to The City of Gold. About 4 km up the Top of the...

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...