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On our last full day in the Skagway area we decided to head back up the Klondike Highway to explore the backcountry. The US-Canada border is approximately at the mountain summit, but the customs stations are situated approximately 20 kilometers apart.  As a result some of the highway is in a “no-man’s land” of sorts. […]

On my first trip to the Yukon, 12 years ago, I became fascinated with the history of the gold rush to the Yukon and the stories of the people who came. It is hard not to soak it in while travelling around the north.  You find signs of history everywhere.  In 2016 the streets of Skagway, […]

I was 40 weeks pregnant with my first child and I was out at a summer neighbourhood party when a neighbour I’d just met asked me “If you could do anything for a day what would it be?”  Perhaps it was my state of pregnancy or some other blissful feeling when I recounted a day I […]

We stayed inside this weekend. It was supposed to be a rainy weekend.  A rainy weekend sandwiched between two rainy weeks, making a pretty depressing situation.  It’s not even the rain that’s the problem it’s the mud.  Our whole yard is a mud pit. We sold our chickens at the beginning of winter. Their pen […]

Every morning for the week before Christmas my 3 year old daughter would wake up and say “Is it Christmas today?” On Christmas morning I was finally able to say “Yes it’s Christmas!”  Her face lit up and she bounced out of bed and ran to the window.  Slowly she turned back towards the bed, […]

If you’re ever hiked with your children you know that it’s not as easy as hiking by yourself. Here are a few tips we’ve found from teaching our 2 & 3 year old to hike so we can start hiking as a family. 1. Have fun Have fun is easier to say than do which […]