How could I forget

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 Heading South

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...

Aug 20 The Arctic Circle

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...

Aug 19 From Eagle Plains 38k south of the Arctic Circle

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...

Aug 18 Mayo to Dawson and illiteracy?

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...