From mud pits to sourtoe cocktails, I was initiated into the Dawson City Music Festival. I joined hundreds of travellers as we stampeded into Dawson City, Yukon (not unlike the gold rush days) to take in Canadian music and have a drink with the locals. The beer flowed freely and evening line-ups greeted us at [...]

Travelling through the small northern communities in the Yukon – like Haines Junction and Beaver Creek – has been fun, but it was time to hit a lively town: Dawson City, Canada. This is where the beginning of the Klondike gold rush began, which turned a small town into a booming city of 30,000. I [...]

The exhilarating past two days of a glacier tour and fishing is over and today we made our way to the infamous Beaver Creek. Actually, it was only infamous to me, as Jim had been talking about it since the beginning of my trip. Beaver Creek, Yukon: home to about 110 residents and the most [...]

I woke up to a dark sky this morning on an otherwise 30 degrees Celsius Yukon weather trip. Damn. But out Jim and I went to do a boat tour of Kathleen Lake, about a 20-minute drive along Haines Road. Here, Ron Chambers met us and eight passengers from a Holland America Cruise ship and took [...]

An hour and a half from Whitehorse and I was on my way to Haines Junction, Yukon. The drive on the Alaska Highway is like a roller coaster- get the driver going fast enough and the passenger need only hold up their arms and yell, “Look, no hands!” Okay, that’s what I did to pass [...]

You can drive to Skagway, but it’s much funner to take the White Pass & Yukon Route train from Carcross, YK or Fraser, BC on one of the Skagway, Alaska tours. After almost two-hours of watching the pretty scenery go by, I arrived in cruise ship mecca of Skagway. Unfortunately, thousands of cruise ship passengers [...]