Well, I’ll tell you what I did… Take off Friday before Labor Day and drive 6 hours to Bellingham, Washington after work the night before. Cross the U.S.-Canada border and take Air North, the airline of the Yukon Territory, to Whitehorse the next morning out of the Vancouver Airport (by the way, I can’t believe …
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- I sorta cheated on this one – this was taken upon reaching the Yukon/BC border en route to Skagway, Alaska
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- This whole freakin’ plane is a wind vane that sits outside of the Whitehorse airport. If it is particularly blustery day, you may see it facing in another direction.
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- SS Klondike…which I’m pretty sure ferried Uncle Scrooge somewhere back in his Yukon days…
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- A nice place to sit (or take a picture of) on Kathleen Lake in Kluane National Park
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- An overlook into Kluane
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- Fish Chowder and Bannock bread at the Salmon and Rib place in Whitehorse…superb!
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- This is the Carcross Desert, which is actually a dried up lake bed and not a true desert. Still, it looks a bit funny up in the Yukon.
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- Skyline of Skagway, Alaska on a beautiful late summer’s day
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- Apparently this is the most photographed building in Alaska? This is the driftwood facade of the Arctic Brotherhood Hall – it is now the main visitor center in town.
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- Paid my respects to the early Skagway settlers and prospectors before winding down the trip…
