It’s 06:04 and I’m sitting in my room at Young’s Motel In Tok. The air conditioning in my motorcoach died a few hours after leaving Whitehorse and it’s been hot as hell. The itinerary for this tour is one of the type designed for people who want to spend...

I get a lot of really cool emails in my Inbox at ExploreNorth – here’s one I have to share with you. Ted Widen is a teacher in BC with a unique talent. While he had his Grade 10 students memorizing The Cremation of Sam McGee recently, he decided...

It’s great to be back home, but it’s only for a few days, and am I busy! The focus since I got home has been to get my cruise review/album posted, and that’s now up at my YourAlaskaCruise.com site (though it’s one of those big projects that I’ll be...

The adventure is over, but we have memories that will last a lifetime. Cathy and I got home last night after getting off the Radiance of the Seas in Seward, Alaska, taking a bus to Anchorage and staying there overnight, onto a jet to Juneau and a Cessna 207...

Due to really poor Internet connections on the ship, I gave up on posting while at sea the past week. Dad and I arrived back in Seattle early this morning, took the Quick Shuttle bus to Vancouver, and he’s about half-way back to Kelowna right now, while I’m at...

I’m just about to head down to the airport to board my flight to Vancouver, where I’ll board a cruise ship bound for Alaska. I checked in an hour ago so I could get a window seat for what promises to be a spectacular flight, and took this photo...

For many Northern residents, the best judge of when Summer has arrived is the amount of work that needs to be done. For most of us, Summer is a very busy time – not only work-busy, but play-busy. I’m lucky that I can often combine the two. Yesterday I...

Ever since I started this blog I’ve been looking for a good directory of other Northern blogs, with no luck. I found a few directories that claimed to have just Alaska or Yukon blogs, but they’ve all been infiltrated by pretenders. Persistence pays, though, (okay, it can also give...

The Internet makes researching travel substantially easier than ever before, but you’d never know it from some people’s experiences. A comment from a very experienced Alaska cruiser who arrived home yesterday from another trip North sums it up nicely: …some highlights for future visitors – be well prepared in...

It was another excellent day of watching our wild neighbours yesterday. Although bears were again our focus, we found none. What we did find was Dall sheep, mountain goats, and some snow geese and Greater white-fronted geese that we only have a chance to see for a few days...