I love traveling! (you may have noticed that theme here 🙂 ) On Tuesday I began a new gig as a tour escort – after many years of having an escort handle the details of my groups’ tours while I drove the motorcoach and talked a lot, now I...

We’re at the cabin for 2 weeks, but spent Tuesday night in the city. That night, a grizzly raided the place – bit through and crushed a garbage can, tore my main bird feeder off the wall beside the kitchen window, then went next door and damaged a storage...

You’ve all surely seen articles about being a tourist in your own town. I’m constantly amazed by the number of people who really have no idea what their town or area has that attracts visitors. In the Yukon, Whitehorse particularly, the percentage of such folks seems to have increased...

It’s now been about 7 weeks since the equipment for our new footbridge started arriving in Carcross, and I’m spending a lot of time (too much time perhaps) watching/photographing the progress of the job. We’ve posted an annotated album with 48 photos here....

The photo below shows the way things looked in Carcross 2 hours ago, with the train to Skagway leaving and the new footbridge being built behind. Carcross is changing rapidly – the psychological changes have already occurred, and the physical ones will take place over this summer and the...

The “Welcome to Yukon” sign on the South Klondike Highway was taken down a couple of weeks ago for renovation. I assumed that the renovation would largely entail changing the slogan from “Canada’s True North” (which I found offensive) to “Larger Than Life”. But it went back up on...

Friday’s inaugural run of the Carcross-Skagway rail service was truly a world-class adventure. I’ve heard that there were some problems with the Yukoners’ Special run, but everything that was an issue then has been resolved. My review got rather carried away and beyond what’s reasonable on a blog, so...

The last of the ice is finally blowing off Lake Bennett – it should finish today by the look of it. If you’ve never seen a breakup (of the ice, I mean!), it’s an experience you should seek out. The sights and sounds of the candle ice in motion...

There’s an icy wind blowing in Carcross today, and the ice has finally started to blow out of Lake Bennett. I just returned at 01:00 this morning from a 6-day trip to visit family down where it’s summer, though – Kelowna, BC. Beyond the long-overdue family part of it...

You wouldn’t think that finding good speakers for your iPod would be that tough, would you? Okay, “good” is subjective – what I’ve been looking for for a long time is a small portable system with good sound (duh!) to use on the deck. I finally found what I...