A walk on the Whitehorse clay cliffs
I’ve mentioned the walk around the airport before, and yesterday was so pretty I decided to spend some time there after a meeting in town. The trail is paved for a few hundred yards and then is well-tracked dirt with many side-trails. This is the north end of the...
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Exploring Ontario – Part III
This is the 3rd and final installment of my Ontario travelogue, taking us from Toronto to Niagara Falls, back to London and finally home to Whitehorse. In the Yukon you drive for hours to get to the next town or attraction, but in Ontario there are towns everywhere and...
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Exploring Ontario – Part II
My regular readers will have noticed that I only posted once while I was in Ontario and have been quiet since. My excuse is that I’ve been sick for 3 weeks and at the end of busy days there’s just been no energy left to show you what I’ve...
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My introduction to Ontario
I’m on the road again, this time about 3,200 kilometers from home, in southern Ontario visiting Cathy’s parents. This is my first trip to Ontario since a school trip in 1968, and my first real look at any of the province. I found researching what to see and where...
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A Fall day in Carmacks, Yukon
Last Friday I took advantage of a mostly-sunny day to ride the motorcycle down to Carmacks, on the Yukon River and the North Klondike Highway. This hasn’t been a great year for Fall colours, but it’s not too bad, and I’ve gotten a few photos. I found this little...
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Bucket list destinations with Gap Adventures
My “Bucket List” is a lengthy one, but one that I’m chipping away at. From Antarctica and Greenland to Bora Bora and the Great Barrier Reef, I want to see and experience “everything”! Last year’s highlights from my list were snorkeling with turtles at Bridgetown, Barbados, and scuba diving...
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A hotel / motel scam to be aware of
This is kind of scary if only because of how simple it is. I’ll bet this works all too often. You arrive at your hotel/motel and check in at the front desk. When checking in, you give the front desk your credit card (for all the charges for your...
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Fall colors on the Haines Highway
Doing a Fall Colours tour is a must for me, and yesterday I headed out to what is normally a particularly good area, the Haines Highway. With sunshine and temps nearing 20°C (68°F), my motorcycle was the vehicle of choice. This side road at Km 1470 (50 km west...
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Nanook is Off to See the World!
Nanook is a cute little Siberian husky dog, one of the Ty Beanie Babies that were so popular a few years ago. Born in 1996, Nanook is now retired and can start doing some serious travelling. He arrived in Skagway after a long trip from Daytona Beach, Florida today,...
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Up the Alaska Highway by motorcycle – Manning, Alberta to Whitehorse, Yukon
The past 2 days have been primarily a process of getting home after my Northwest Territories adventure, but I did a reasonably good job of “stopping to smell the roses” along the way – and there really are a lot of those roses! I’m usually a fairly neat hotel...
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