We’ve been having incredible weather to end the summer, and I’ve been trying to get out as much as possible. On Monday, September 1st, we took the motorhome to the White Pass, and got home last night. I got one good night of aurora, two excellent hikes on the...

This post covers our last two full days on the river – Tuesday, August 19th and Wednesday, August 20th – with a bit about the drive home on the 21st. To start this day, the lovely little valley of Sparkling Creek, at about 11:00. We met two guys in...

We landed at Fort Selkirk at 3:30 Sunday, August 17th, Day 7 of the trip. Our plan was simply to see a bit of the community, then continue on our journey down the river. The first photo shows the view downriver, to the northwest. The campground is beautiful –...

This post begins as we departed from Carmacks on Saturday morning, August 16th (Day 6 of the trip) and ends as we arrived at Fort Selkirk in the afternoon of Sunday, August 17th. I thought I was going to be able to tell this story with four posts, but...

This post covers our journey starting below Shipyard Island at about 1:00 pm on Thursday, August 14th (Day 4 of the trip), and ending as we were leaving Carmacks on the morning of Saturday, August 16th (Day 6). The first photo was taken about 10 minutes after leaving Shipyard...

This post begins on the afternoon of Day 3 – Wednesday, August 13th – as we started paddling down the Thirty Mile section of the Yukon River, from the foot of Lake Laberge north. The Thirty Mile was designated a Canadian Heritage River in 1991 for its outstanding natural,...

On Monday, August 11th, my son and I launched my canoe on the Yukon River at Rotary Park in downtown Whitehorse, and on August 21st we reached Dawson. Just before 10:00 am we met Cathy, who had driven down from Whitehorse the previous day. This post covers the first...

This is 30th and final blog post from our 38-day tour of northern Europe (in the Post Archives, the tour posts start on June 24th, 2025). This post is for people who are passionate about travel, for people who are fascinated by airports, and in particular for window-seat junkies...

This is blog post #29 from our tour of northern Europe. We would take a tour/shuttle to Amsterdam with a 2-hour stop at Gouda, then fly to Iceland the next day, and on the third day, fly Reykjavik-Vancouver and Vancouver-Whitehorse. When I opened the curtains of our cabin on...

This is blog post #28 from our tour of northern Europe. On Friday, July 25th, we spent the day at sea, and on Saturday the 26th we docked at Dover with big plans for our final port day of the 28-cruise on the Nieuw Statendam. My sea day began...