Princess Cruises has just started a new blog called “50 Essential Experiences”, which over the next 50 weeks will describe what Princess’ destination experts feel are the things that you must experience during your life. This week’s Essential Experience story is about the helicopter dog sledding [archived by The...

For Canadians, this is Thanksgiving weekend, and for Americans it’s the Columbus Day long weekend. We hope that you all have a wonderful, safe holiday 🙂 On Friday I finished my firewood cutting for the year, and the next day (yesterday), woke up to a couple of inches of...

I wish that I could take credit for these videos, because they’re extremely good. One of the fellows from our CruiseCritic group, though, Bill Raffel, created these 5 videos. Each is almost 10 minutes long – while that’s a lot of watching, just the Hubbard Glacier calving and the...

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...