Worth the drive for the views!

Posted on July 23, 2025

Dad warned us that we would really not enjoy the road from Whistler, through Pemberton, to Lillooet, British Columbia. And it was gnarly! But the views!! That was worth it!…

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Watching John Wayne in a rest area

Posted on July 18, 2025

We parted ways with Colette this morning. She went back to her home in Port Hardy and we headed south. Our goal was Tofino, but probably not until tomorrow. No…

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Marble River Rec Site

Posted on July 17, 2025

We packed up this morning and left Port Hardy. But not quickly. We had to make a million stops, like the busy Co-op where a totally swamped young employee refilled…

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Dease Lake

Posted on July 6, 2025

We are parked on the shore of Dease Lake tonight, north of the town of the same name, in a provincial rec site called Sawmill Point. There are about 10…

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Sanibel Island

Posted on February 25, 2024

We woke up on Tuesday morning in Fort Meyers at the Holiday Inn and peeked out the blinds to see a beautiful day! We enjoyed our free breakfast at the…

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The Daytona 500

Posted on February 25, 2024

Yeah, you caught my hints earlier, didn’t you!? We bought tickets for NASCAR’s Daytona 500! The superspeedway race, on the 2.5 mile track, with the restrictor plates and the draft…

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Whitehorse again, and it is cold!

Posted on December 4, 2021

Chilly day today! It didn’t get any warmer than -43C / -45F today, and we have an “Extreme Cold Warning” alert right now warning of possible windchills of -50 C…

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My new truck!

Posted on March 4, 2020

I’ve been watching for my dream vehicle for a few years now. I wanted something “truckier” than my Chevrolet Equinox. Something that I could sleep in the back of, or…

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December shopping trip

Posted on December 11, 2017

We were low on dog food, and the weather was mild, so we decided to zip down to Whitehorse on the weekend for a shopping trip. This was Hank’s first…

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Weekend trip north of the Arctic Circle

Posted on July 16, 2017

Neither Mom nor Julie have been to the Northwest Territories, so we figured we’d help them with their bucket lists and take them there this weekend. The Northwest Territories border…

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Our drive across Canada

Posted on August 4, 2015

Back tracking a couple weeks to make sure I share some photos of our relocation trip across Canada in July. I thought I would have been able to blog every…

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Cabela’s Opening in Moncton, NB

Posted on May 30, 2015

On Thursday, Jeff, our friend Chrissy, and I, all took the day off work to travel to Moncton, New Brunswick for Cabela’s opening of their first store in Atlantic Canada….

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