Vancouver isn’t all that far way by air – a few minutes over 2 hours, depending on which plane you’re flying in. But the cost makes it seem a whole lot further. I’d like to go down for a one-day meeting on January 29th, but here’s today’s air-fare silliness...

I’m fascinated by the ways that technology is constantly providing new doors to open. Sometimes the doors lead to places that didn’t exist before, sometimes they just take you to the same place via a different route. Over the past few days it’s been Kindle that’s provided a new...

I’m in the middle of a job that I have a love-hate feeling about – filing the photographs I’ve shot over the past few months. I spent a lot of time travelling this year, and my purchase of a little Fujifilm S1800 point-and-shoot camera back in mid-May has probably...

On the way into the office this morning it struck me how different my commute is than that of most people. More than half of my 15-minute commute from Mary Lake to downtown Whitehorse is on the Alaska Highway – here’s what it looked like, 2 days after the...

Yesterday was the perfect day for a drive to Skagway – very cold with high north winds at Skagway but clear all the way. This is a shot of the temperature gauge in my car as I was about to turn onto the Alaska Highway at 9:24am. It only...

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You know, time has a way of moving quickly and catching you unaware of the passing years. It seems just yesterday that I was young, just married and embarking on my new life with my mate. And yet in a way, it seems like eons ago, and I wonder...

I was on the Port of San Diego Web site today to read about their new cruise terminal. I got side-tracked by the Harbor Police blotter, and was more than a little surprised to see week after week, multiple “incidents of abandoned ammunition” at the San Diego airport. Huh???...

Here’s the video I mentioned last night. It was shot for Pan Americn World Airways, probably in 1946, as it features a DC-3, and in 1947 they had added DC-4s to the Alaska run. The entire film is 25 minutes long – I bought the original 16mm film on...