I’ve been back home from my last Alaska cruise for 10 days now, and reality has been keeping me very busy. Now that I have some time and am not paying 30 cents a minute for Interet access, though, I can show you a bit more of what the...

Some of you may be wondering why I’ve been so quiet lately. Well, I’m off on another Alaska cruise and there just haven’t been enough hours in the day to get everything done. A few family members want to see some photos, though, so here they come 🙂 This...

The pain never really does go away, does it? I was just going through my photos looking for some commercial submissions and found a photo of Kodi, taken at the Pennington section house on Lake Bennett back in August 2003. He had, as he did so often, gone on...

The Labour Day long weekend is a rather manic time in the North. Everyone is doing something outside, knowing that this is the last good-weather long weekend we’re going to see until May. Whether it’s berry picking, hiking, boating, camping or just getting out for a scenic drive, it’s...

Living in Whitehorse has a lot of pluses. Especially when you have secluded acreage 15 minutes from downtown. Not only do you have pretty well ever service you need close at hand, the wilderness is literally at your back door. On Saturday afternoon the Fall colours on Golden Horn...

I’ve been too stunned by Saturday night’s murder of 2 of the 3 police officers in Hoonah, Alaska, to even comment. There probably are no words to properly describe what I feel, being from a small town, being a former RCMP auxiliary member and being the father of a...

The first step getting out of the Yukon is the tough one. Not as tough as it used to be thanks to Air North, but still an “ouch” financially. I just got the Fall sale email from Alaska Airlines and when I dug into it and saw that you...

Many businesses in the Yukon say that they don’t understand why there are so many people like me who do a lot of their shopping Outside. Here’s today’s example of why we do it. When I decided a few weeks ago to get a motorcycle, I expected to buy...

The cold, wet weather of Fall has arrived. As well as all the things that have to get done around the house to get ready for winter, things have gotten busy at the travel office as people start making plans to get warm for a week or two. All...

With Fall here now (we had -3°C a couple of mornings ago), I’ve loaded up the firewood room in the basement and the wood furnace is fired up. But with the firewood in the house we also have new residents that we haven’t seen since May – wood bugs...