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Whitehorse Slideshow
Whitehorse
Travel Blogs from Whitehorse, Canada
Going back a few thousand years in the Yukon...
... it gets too much rain. Still, it is interesting to see sand piles in front of mountains and glacier lakes. Getting to the Whitehorse area late, we decided to drive straight out and camp at Takhina Hot Springs. These springs were indeed hot, and the pool ...
Whitehorse, A Welcome Layover Stop
... nbsp; “Extreme Dust” sections! Whitehorse, YT is a great layover town; the Frantic ...
Drive to Alaska - Stop #3
... in AND passed along the road. So, we figured about 4,000 people lived up here...somewhat jokingly. We learned, however, that Whitehorse, the BOOMING metropolis of YT has an intensely large population of 20,000. The REMAINDER of YT contains about 8,000. ...
Cassiar and ALCAN to Whitehorse
... the new blog. We had dinner at the Yukon Mining Co., which was Gary’s Father’s Day dinner. The skeeters are persistent here as well! For you pilots the DC-3 is the wind tee at Whitehorse Airport. Stats: 415 mi; 36.6 gal; 11.4 mpg; 51 ...
Animal Day
... crossing this wire mesh bridge on a motorcycle. During the day I was able to make an appointment for tomorrow at Yukon Honda in Whitehorse to have two new tires installed and balanced. It was such a relief to know that this problem will be resolved ...
Windy day
... car eloigne et dans le froid.... c est comme les primes d eloignements... et au yukon comme dans les autres Territoires du Canada...ca se fait souvent. Bon jleur ai dis ok pour mercredi soir et normalement ils viennent me chercher ...pas beau ca? un ...
1, 2, 3 READY NOT? GO!
This is our test email to people we thought might be interested in our Uganda journey. Since we don't leave 'til later next week, this is just a bit of a tease. Stay tuned! Laurel and James ...
Bow-wow?!?!?
After an overnight stop in the small community of Teslin Lake, we arrived in Whitehorse, Yukon's provincial capital, for a 5 day stay. While there, we took in most of the tourist sights. We toured the largest old paddle-wheeler boat in North America, the ...
Day 57
... for travel tomorrow. We had a visitor from Jefferson City, TN, which is near Knoxville on the other side from us. His son is an Alaskan State Trooper and they are having a shooting match with the Canadian Mounties this weekend here in ...
The rest of the Summer
... and most everyone is complaining. Of course, it is what it is, so we adapt. Aug 1/08 Our new home is outside Whitehorse proper approx 15 minutes from DT. We are on 3 acres in a subdivision called Wolf Creek south of town. The location is great ...
Day 35
... the Eagle Claw Campground and headed into town for breakfast at Fast Eddies. After a good breakfast I headed out for Whitehorse and bid farewell to Alaska and back into Canada. I will pu my old set of road tires and take of the knobbies that I have been ...
Whitehorse Update
... , and thought what an experience!!! Most people get a laugh out of that. :) So as you can tell I'm still in Whitehorse, staying with a lovely couple in a 3 bedroom country style house with a big basement, a cat named Miss Vicky (mostly white, ...
I've Fallen in Love with Life: And the Yukon
... that inhabits my heart. I write you all from a small little room in a house in the capital of the Yukon territory, Whitehorse. After scarfing down some pizza with some friends, the images of the previous days journey came back into my mind, and I knew I ...
Only 19 days to go!
We're still home, only 19 days to go though. Lots of stuff is comming up very quickly for us, Allie's brother and sister come home soon and Kyle gets here in 4 days. Then there's Christmas, New Years, Megan's last day at work is the 4th and ...
"vol pour le nouveau monde"
Il est 6h30 du mat et je suis reveillee depuis un moment; la peur de ne pas entendre mon reveil sans doute. je fais mes sacs et attends mon hote qui travaille de nuit, afin de la remercier pour son acceuil et hop.... je me fonderai dans cette masse grace ...
Winter has arrived!
... (6:30) and have the sun come up while one the trails. The trails themselves range from flat to challenging race courses. The Whitehorse club hosted a 1981 World Cup here and the trails have since then been upgraded to current race standards. They will be ...
on the Klondike Highway
Something different today -- a little road trip up to Whitehorse, the capital of Yukon Territory by way of the Klondike Highway. The road is yet another path through much of the same country we travelled on foot and by train; it crosses the tracks at one ...
Thurs day is shopping day
... Jet lag was by now receding and so a relatively full nights sleep was becoming a possibility, a lazy breakfast and then off to the shops. Whitehorse is not that big. It is the capital of the Yukon, but in size is more loike an English Village, there are 5 ...
Canol Rd ( Reasons to be cheerful part 2 )
Here we are popped up again!! We had to cut it short last night because we were picked up by Hans and Susie and went out for drinks......more later. So there we were / here we are at lunch break, for want of a better term, putting on head torches and ...
Vous etes au pays des ours
Je vais vous informer sur les ours. A mon arrivee, j ai eu des papiers sur "comment reagir face aux ours, les reperer..." RESUME de " Assurer sa securite au pays des ours " Les ours sont des animaux magnifiques et fascinants. Bien que l ours et l etre ...
Day 14: Boston Pizza
... we had become so accustomed to seeing similarly amazing views over the past 10-plus days. We slipped down into a valley containing Whitehorse, the capital city of the Province and a busy city located at the juncture of several rivers. I didn’t ...
Pretending to be Tourists
... the Whitehorse Fish Ladder and Dam - it was up to him as driver to figure out how to get there. So we drove around aimlessly for a few hours seeing Whitehorse and surrounding area until then finally I dragged out the map and figured out how to get ...
Day 49 Whitehorse Yukon Canada
... before it was realized that they were looking at a bear and Karon managed to glimpse it as we went past. We pulled into Whitehorse to restock with some more food,(items that weren't available in Skagway) , a quick re-assessment of driving times ...
Ferry to Skagway then on to Whitehorse
... again and met some locals, one who was actually from Ontario. The young girl, about twenty two years old, was teaching gymnastics in Whitehorse and her boyfriend was working at the camp ground for the summer, and in the oil fields in the ...
Capital of the Yukon Territory
... --so much better than having to do your own driving. Many people in the group are frustrated--even though Whitehorse is the capital of the Yukon territory of Canada, many cell phone companies have no signal here. Our AT&T phone has no towers, ...
Day 9
... the edge of the river and a beached paddle wheeler river boat. River boats use to travel up and down the river between Whitehorse and Dawson City. Now you can tour the river on a jet boat. Later in the afternoon we toured an abandoned ...