A significant piece of legislation regarding the cruise ships which visit Alaska every summer was passed virtually unnoticed by the State of Alaska on February 4, 2013. Shopping is an activity that is very much encouraged by cruise lines. There are shopping malls on all large cruise ships, and...

After 3 days of clearing snow at the house and cabin, I needed a break on Wednesday, and I’d offered to give a visitor from France a ride to Skagway in any case. I picked Louise up at the Lead Dog Inn in town. I’d had a look at...

Relaxing with my huskies at the Carcross cabin in the winter...

The past few days have been crazy-busy, with both an exciting event and a great deal of snow clearing at our home and our cabin. The 1,000-mile Yukon Quest started in Whitehorse at 11:00 am Saturday morning, and Cathy and I were there about half an hour early to...

It seems that every time I go on a trip, I get a bit photo-manic when I get home, and yesterday was one of those days, with wonderful varied light for a drive to Skagway 🙂 I flew out of Kelowna on the 7:00 pm flight on Tuesday, had...

Like every other Yukon and Alaska blogger, I was going to tell you about the incredibly warm weather we were having last week. Although I missed that window, I do want to show those of you who live elsewhere a couple of photos. This is not what shovelling snow...

The weather hasn’t been very encouraging for road trips lately, but I had a few things sitting at the post office in Skagway so went down yesterday anyway. Any trip to Skagway is a good one, even though some are better than others. I got away just before 10:00...

Cathy and I want to wish all of you a Happy New Year – we hope that 2013 brings you everything you want 🙂 We went into Whitehorse last night for the excellent fireworks show at 9pm, right after the 3-hour Family First events. This morning, we started the...

I had to go into Whitehorse to run a couple of errands today, so I thought I’d take some photos of what the day before Christmas looks like in the Yukon’s capital city. The photo above was taken right at noon from the shoulder of the main access road...

Yesterday was a busy day. The main project was to drive down the Alaska Highway to meet Brek Boughton, the cyclist who’s headed for Tuktoyaktuk, but that had to be fit in among other things. This is what our weather station looked like at 10:09, a minute before sunrise....