For the first time since Rotterdam in 2019, my entire division at work got together in Denver, Colorado – in person!! I headed out on Friday after lunch to get...
We ordered 4 cords of wood from a commercial cutter, so we could enjoy our summer and not spend every weekend harvesting firewood. We like to have at least 5...
It poured rain overnight on Wednesday, which caused several landslides south of Dawson City yesterday. The road first closed just south of the Dempster turn off, due to landslides. Then...
I headed north on the Dempster this week for a couple nights solo. Something unexpected, work related, was really bothering me, something I could do nothing about, so I decided...
Jeff and I took Air North’s (wonderful) seasonal direct (well, mostly redirect, there is a 45 minute refuel and passenger shuffle stop in Yellowknife) flight to Toronto to attend a...
For the Discovery Day long weekend here in the Yukon, we went camping to the Five Mile Territorial Park near Mayo. Not only was the park not full, so we...
Fall feels like it came really early this year. The fireweed is about done. The weather is cold. The rainy season is here. The mosquitos are buzzing off. It’s going...
We left Valdez and headed back north to Copper Center to camp at Klutina Salmon Charters along the Klutina River, near where it empties in to the Copper River. The...
Our next vacation stop for three nights was Valdez, staying at the KOA campground just a couple miles before town. There aren’t that many roads in Alaska, so we back...
Subtitle of this post – What kind of moron goes on a vacation to Alaska and doesn’t take their camera? (Me!) Long overdue for a vacation together, Jeff organized and...
I’m just back today from a trip to Mexico City to visit with some coworkers, some new and some that I’ve known and worked with for years. This marked the...
You can’t get here right now, well unless you are already in Alaska and come over from Chicken. The Alaskan Highway was washed out in northern British Columbia on Friday,...