I’m headed home after two months on the road — I’m in Prince Rupert, BC, now, and will be back in Whitehorse by Sunday. Looking forward to settling back in to Yukon life.
Archive for the ‘Updates’ Category
Northbound
Posted in Updates, tagged British Columbia on August 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Down the Coast
Posted in Photos, Updates, tagged California, Nehalem Bay State Park, Olympic National Park, Oregon, Redwood National Park, Road Trips, Washington on July 14, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Since my last update I’ve traveled from Seattle to the Olympic Peninsula and along the Oregon and California coasts. It’s mostly been a national/state parks camping trip, with urban breaks in San Francisco and Los Angeles, my southernmost stop. I’m in Las Vegas now, looking forward to a loop through southern Utah before I head [...]
Bad News / Good News
Posted in Photos, Updates, tagged British Columbia, Oxford American Summit, Road Trips, TBEX, Vancouver on June 10, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Bad news first: My participation in the AOL/Ford road trip project fell apart at the last minute. It’s a complicated story, but essentially there was an issue with work visas, immigration regulations, and my being Canadian. So the show goes on without me. The good news is, since I had already packed up my things [...]
Big News: This American Road
Posted in Updates, tagged AOL Travel, Gadling, Road Trips, This American Road, USA on May 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
At long last I’m able to announce my work/travel plans for the summer: I’ll be driving across the States and blogging the trip for Gadling and AOL Travel. The series is called This American Road, and it involves everything from tweets to videos, from personal dispatches at big-name tourist destinations to reported pieces on small [...]
The View from my Writer’s Retreat
Posted in Photos, Updates, tagged Atlin, Writer's Retreat, Writing on March 29, 2011 | 4 Comments »
My escape to a cabin just south of Atlin last week was a huge success. I read on the deck in the sun (in my sleeping bag – it’s not quite warm enough for sunbathing yet) by day, and wrote at night; I finished Jonathan Raban’s excellent Passage to Juneau and got a functional 4000-word [...]
Build Your Own Writer’s Retreat
Posted in Updates, tagged Writer's Retreat, Writing on March 21, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I just booked two nights in a little log cabin a couple of hours south of Whitehorse, complete with glacier views, a woodstove, and — crucially — an electrical outlet for my laptop. I’ve got a bunch of writing I’m aiming to get done in a short time span, so I figured I’d fashion my [...]
Alaskan Beer, an Ultra Race and a Lot of Wet Winter Clothing
Posted in Photos, Updates, tagged Alaska, Matador, Yukon Quest, Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve on February 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I’ve got a few odds and ends to catch up on. First of all, I’ve had a handful of stories published over on the Matador Network in the past couple weeks: an introduction to a serious local ultra race — The Yukon Arctic Ultra: The World’s Toughest Race? — and two stories about my Alaskan [...]
Back from the Backcountry
Posted in Updates, tagged Alaska, Yukon Quest, Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve on February 18, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I arrived home in Whitehorse last night after a successful trip into Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve — I was a volunteer at Slaven’s Roadhouse, a remote dog drop location on the Yukon Quest trail. Photos and more coming soon, in the meantime I’ll just note that using an outhouse at -50 (a new experience for [...]
