Cathy and I left Whitehorse yestderday to begin a 4-day exploration of Vancouver followed by an Alaska cruise and land tour with 4 friends from Ontario. We picked up our house-sitter just before 07:00 and a few minutes later were at the Whitehorse airport where check-in at the Air...

Cathy and I had to make a quick trip to Skagway this morning, and while we fully expected to see some wildlife, we didn’t expect to see as much as we did. The first great sighting was this beautiful big cinnamon bear along Tutshi Lake (yes, “the usual place”)....

I hadn’t planned on going to Keno City, but things just happen sometimes. A friend of mine from Keno was medivaced to Whitehorse a few days ago, and when that happens, how you get home is for you to figure out. There’s no public transportation of any kind, so...

Every Victoria Day long weekend, the White Pass & Yukon Route railway offers Yukoners discounted rides on the railway, and on Saturday Cathy, my nice Bobbie and I joined hundreds of other Yukoners on the trains. We chose to drive to Skagway and take the longest trip available, from...

One of the magazines we get that I really enjoy is “tidings“, a Canadian food and wine publication. In the May/June edition that recently arrived, there’s a feature article about cocktails, one of which is called “Caribou Crossing” – and, of course, I can’t let a name like that...

Driving to Skagway may be one of my procrastination techniques, but it’s a particularly good one 🙂 On Friday I made the drive despite a mediocre weather report, and it turned out to be an excellent day. I was on the road just before 9:30, and 20 minutes later...

This is the second of 2 posts describing my 4-day tour of the Golden Circle Route from Whitehorse to Skagway, Haines, Haines Junction and back with tour company Road Scholar. Saturday began cold and wet – this was the view from my room at the Captain’s Choice Motel at...

I’m currently on a 4-day tour of what is marketed as the “Golden Circle Route”, from Whitehorse to Skagway, Haines, Haines Junction and back. With me is Julie Odell, Program Administrator for Road Scholar, a tour company which some of you may remember as Elderhostel. They are returning to...

Great photography makes you think. It might make you think about a place you’ve never been, a place you’ve been a hundred times but have never seen in this way, about your feelings regarding the subject – or it might just make you think about the details of everyday...

The circumpolar world is right now having the best aurora displays seen in the past decade, but actually seeing them can be a challenge for a variety of reasons. Photographing them can be even more of a challenge. Even with a great aurora forecast as we had on Monday...