Dad and I have 2 part days and 4 full days in the Santa Barbara area – just enough to have a good visit and see some of what the region has to offer. My first outing on Tuesday morning was just a walk around the neighbourhood to get...

With gorgeous weather forecast, Saturday (September 22nd) was another South Klondike Highway exploring/photograph day. But this time I had lots of company – Cathy, my niece Bobbie, and 2 enthusiastic huskies 🙂 Our first stop was going to be at the silver-mining ghost town of Conrad, but even at...

I’d been watching the Whitehorse and Skagway weather forecasts for the past few days, watching for a day that offered sunshine in both places so I could take the bike down. Yesterday was that day. Heavily layered to keep warm, I was away from the house just after 08:00,...

Today is the 20th anniversary of one of the blackest days in the history of the Canadian North, and in Canadian labour history. On September 18, 1992, an explosion at the Giant gold mine at Yellowknife, Northwest Territories killed 9 men – it turned out to be not an...

I had to fly to Kelowna, BC a couple of weeks ago to spend a week with my parents. It wasn’t a pleasure trip, it was one of the trips that everyone with elderly parents dreads. My 88-year old mother needs 24-hour care as of a few weeks ago,...

During yesterday’s 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that changed the world that most of us knew, New York was of course the focus. Most people outside the Yukon have forgotten, or perhaps never heard, how Whitehorse was affected. Lots has been written about what happened at the Whitehorse...

Having seen some excellent Fall colour photos from both the Top of the World and Dempster Highways the past few days, Cathy and I decided to head up the South Canol Road for a look on Saturday. It takes about an hour and a half to get to Johnson’s...

I was in a bad way yesterday, desperate to just get away. I packed the minimal gear I needed to go hiking in some form and hopped on the bike, headed for Skagway, but was unsure what it was exactly that I needed. It was cold when I left...

My Road Scholar tour has been over for 3 days now, but I want to catch up for those of you who were following along. We began Monday morning with a drive up the Midnight Dome, elevation 2,911 feet, or 1,860 feet above Dawson City. The morning light is...

Yesterday we made the fairly short but spectacular drive from Tok, Alaska to Dawson City, Yukon. We were away from Tok at 08:30, and an hour later made our first rest stop below Mount Fairplay on the Taylor Highway. At 10:20 we reached Chicken, and the post office was...