Alaska Highway – “We want speed, not character!”
Last Saturday (the 6th), Cathy and I loaded the dogs into the Outback and headed out to +D-Bay” for lunch (it’s offically Destruction Bay, but nobody around here uses that name). The weather wasn’t particular nice and it might seem a little odd to drive 170 miles to have...
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Easy to amuse day
Get your name on a NASCAR with Fan1st.com! Like most of you, I see a LOT of ads over the course of the average week. Some are creative (the Dove aging series), some are cute (”Mommy, what does ’spoiled’ mean?”), some are stupid (the guy acting like a cat)...
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Think sunshine!
It’s a sunshine day 🙂 . I went for a drive in the bit of sunshine we had this morning, and then I started surfing warm places. Alaska Airlines always has good deals to warm places this time of year, so I ended up there. I couldn’t find a...
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Blogging North
Now that outdoors isn’t a particularly pleasant place to be (for a while until this wet white goes away), I’m getting some work done (actually I’m as confused as ever about where the line between work and fun is 🙂 ). One of the things that got started today...
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Blogging and economics
Many, or perhaps most people with blogs would like to find a way to make a dollar or two while posting their thoughts. Most people selling products or services would like to be able to tap into the blog phenomenon – a July 2006 study concluded there were 12...
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Close the curtains & pull out a warm book
I can take a joke, Mother Nature, but come on, it’s only the 8th of October!! Seeing this in my back yard this morning just makes me want to go back to bed....
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High country ‘Horse – Mt. McIntyre
Today may well have been the last warmish day for a very long time, and it was a great day to get into the high country above Whitehorse again. Mount McIntyre was today’s destination – with a side trip down to Fish Lake afterward, the whole adventure only took...
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Magic & mystery, or homogeny?
This was the Red Feather Saloon as I saw it for the first time, on June 20, 1985. This is one of the images from that trip, a whirlwind tour of the Yukon and adjacent areas by small plane, that I love the most – it reminds me of...
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Life is a Journey…
…and being a tour/charter bus driver took that journey down some very interesting roads for 17 years until I retired from it last year. One of the roads I’ve never tired of is the North Klondike Highway to Dawson City. The photo below was taken from my room at...
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Changing seasons, changing priorities
My good canoe, the Wenonah-Jensen, is now hanging from the ceiling in the Whitehorse garage, while the poor, heavy old Coleman sits on the beach waiting to be covered by snow. Between travel, poor weather and high water that eliminated the beaches on Lake Bennett, neither canoe got wet...
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