How could I forget to say…I finally saw some wild life besides bunnies and marmots who seem to cross the road in front of you often but at the speed everyone is traveling…you don’t see many flattened on the road. Yesterday I saw three...
Aug 22 Written from a campsite in Eagle Plains heading south on the Dempster Highway I am sitting at a picnic table at a campsite at the Eagle Plains Service area. The sun is hot and the fireweed fluff is blowing past me. It is a beautiful afternoon. I am headed south...
I’m here. I can’t tell you what a thrill it is for me to actually cross the Arctic Circle. How Canadian. Isn’t if funny, our Canadian identity is so tied up with being northerners and most of us have never really been north. I love this place. It...
I am sitting in a restaurant overlooking the Eagle Plains at the Eagle Plains lodge which is at Km 369. With my trip from Dawson today I did just over 400 k. All of it stunningly beautiful with the play of sun, clouds and rain over the face of the land. The pictures...
Written Aug 18 from my campsite in Dawson I am camping at a good sized RV campground just outside of Dawson City. As I ate my meal the wind was cold and rain was falling but now the sky is clearing and the wind has dropped. It is a nice night. I am leaving my curtains...
Written Aug. 17th It was raining this morning when I dropped Christopher off at his job and continued up the Alaska highway alone. My satalite radio is not working…something about the way the arial is installed say the Sirus people and so it was just me, myself...
Fireweed is the Yukon’s official flower. It is beautiful, so intricate that it makes me want to rush home and get my sketch pad to try and capture it. Today I was taking a walk along the various trails in town and I noticed something. When fireweed is done, it...
I am still in Whitehorse enjoying some family time and waiting out a long weekend. Discovery Day is the Yukon August long weekend and lots of people from here are abandoning their jobs for a time and hitting the roads and campgrounds along with the tourists. I figure...
What is it about the Yukon…or is it the north in general that draws me? I was born and lived in Northern Ontario until I was in grade three, not very long and yet something clicked over in my brain then. Although I have lived in Southern Canada since then I have...
I pulled out of the park drive way to see a sign that let me know I was heading in the right direction. I was heading to Atlin which was going to be another long day of driving but I was going to be doing most of that driving in the Yukon. It would be my first time...
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