In 33 hours, Cathy and I will be flying out of Whitehorse, headed for San Francisco to board the Celebrity Infinity for her repositioning cruise from Mexican itineraries to Alaskan ones. “This ain’t my first rodeo”, but I’m really excited about this cruise. As on all of our previous...

The first regular cruise ship of the year, the Norwegian Pearl, arrived in Skagway this morning, all the excuse I needed to head down. 🙂 The weather forecast was for a bit of everything, and that’s what happened – sun, cloud, showers, a bit of snow. These peaks are...

Yesterday was a fine Spring day in Whitehorse. Flower buds are poking out of the ground everywhere – crocuses, Arctic poppies, delphiniums and fireweed the most noticeable on our property. Kayla and Monty don’t even want to come in the house anymore 🙂 The snow is rapidly melting off...

In the southern Yukon, the arrival of migrating swans is the first sign that Spring is getting close, but the first sign that Spring has arrived is the budding of the crocus – the first hairy little bud has now pushed up through the forest floor a few feet...

My old F-150 doesn’t get much use anymore. Other than hauling firewood, lumber, rocks or snow, she just sits in a portable garage hidden beside the house. This morning I took it into town to fix a gate at our rental house, though. As I was driving down the...

The best of my Skagway trips each year is the one when the smell of Spring is in the air. Today I made that trip – oh how I love the smell of a coastal forest in the Spring! After the welcome Cathy and I got two weeks ago...

We’ve put our rental house in Granger up for sale. It’s on a large, private treed lot, has been extensively renovated and has 2 bedrooms plus a den/bedroom upstairs (1,340 square feet) and 2 bedrooms downstairs (1,225 square feet). The asking price is $439,000. For more information, see this...

I’m always on the lookout for articles about, and photos of, great beaches – and there are lots. Condé Nast Traveler has just posted “Great Beaches of the World: Italy” so it looked like a good way to start this snowy day off. The first thing I checked out...

It’s always interesting to see the Yukon show up in advertisements as a background in various ways. Doing some shopping online this morning, I came across Canvas People, one of the biggest companies in the turn-your-photo-into-canvas-art business. Their home page right now (see the screen shot below) features a...