Blogs from Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, North America - page 12

My Greta Garbo phase is over. No longer cycling solo. Met up again with Alain and Tom, Swiss guys that I met last year in South America, in Vancouver. The last time I saw Alain was in Bolivia when I watched him cycle off into the rain forest with Felix the map cutter, an organic farmer from Dresden. At the time I vowed that I wouldn't let myself get hurt again and rush straight into another cycling relationship on the rebound. However time is a great healer. After a year pedalling on my own it has been good fun riding with them from Vancouver to Whitehorse. We have developed our own exclusive touring language which is a combination of badly pronounced Spanish (with lots of over enthusiastic r's being rolled all over the place), Swiss-German ... read more

Well, here it is, my 75th (I think), and final entry (maybe). It was 5 1/2 months ago that Derek, Mark, and I said goodbye to our loved ones, boarded a BC Ferry, and left the land of Tim Horton's, Canadian Tire, cold Pacific Ocean, and sane traffic behind. Yah, that was a random summary of Canada, wasn't it? Well, it's what came to mind. I thought I would do one last entry to sum things up a bit. And yet, I'm really not done my year of crazy travelling. In fact, as I write this I'm sitting in bed in Whitehorse where outside it is -10C and there's a whole lot of snow on the ground. Soon I'll be off to Edmonton for my cousin's wedding. Then I think I have a trip to Ottawa ... read more

Hello everyone and Happy New years I will be leaving Whitehorse tommorrow morning on a four month trip through Southeast Asia, during which time I plan on posting frequent Travel blogs here on this pretty sweet website (thanks Ben). My Christmas holidays up here in Canada's true north have been amazing. For those of you who have never been further north then Edmonton or Prince George I can assure you that there is some great things north of these cities other then just dirty oil sands and rig towns. Take a look at these pictures, and I hope to see some familiar faces here soon enough. Corey Rich, ... read more

Good morning to all of you! Thank you for your comments and messages. I love hearing from you! So.......let me just say this.......THIS is THE way to travel, my friends! Wow! When we left the airport hotel yesterday morning in Toronto, I expected the shuttle to be taking us to one of the Terminals at the Toronto airport.......and then I was planning on heading to Starbucks, so I could begin my journey with a Chai latte (my favorite!). No........the shuttle made an unexpected turn, and we headed to a separate terminal where all the private planes/jets are parked. Wow. We were taken into a special terminal that was just for our group and our private plane was waiting on the tarmac. No lineups, no security, no hassles. Bags were loaded and we were on our way, ... read more

Circle The Wagons We pull over to take a peek at what awaits us, from a vantage point of about 1500 feet we look down on Dawson City. It reminds you of a cartoon, the town is laid our on a square grid and each one is painted a pastel color, yellow, pink, blue, green and some reds and browns. As we look over this historical town, we notice one item of interest, there is no road from our side to the other side of the Yukon River. To get there from our side you must take a ferry across this mighty river. We descend down until the road stops and we are at the rivers edge. The vessel is a flat bottom ferry large enough to accommodate an 18 wheeler, cab and one trailer, we ... read more