{"id":1100,"date":"2011-08-18T19:50:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T23:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2011-08-18T19:50:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T23:50:16","slug":"packing-for-the-yukon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2011\/08\/packing-for-the-yukon.html","title":{"rendered":"Packing for the Yukon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been scurrying about and making lists preparing to leave for my big adventure starting this Saturday: the road trip of a life time to the Yukon. It&#8217;s been very hard to think about blogging. \u00a0I&#8217;m picking a friend up in Arcata Saturday, maybe squeeze in a purifying before-trip sweat, and then heading to the far north with a short stop on an island off BC&#8217;s Sunshine Coast. We&#8217;ll drive up the west side of BC&#8217;s interior eventually to Whitehorse, Yukon, and return down the east side with a swing down the <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.webshots.com\/photo\/1432282258043512416ldcREk\" target=\"_blank\">Banff-Jasper highway<\/a>. \u00a0That latter road is the longest stretch of spectacular mountain scenery I&#8217;ve ever seen: 200 miles. It will be wonderful to see it again.<\/p>\n<p>Some people are drawn to \u00a0breezy tropical islands and sun drenched beaches. \u00a0I&#8217;ve always been in love with the north and ifI had to chose, prefer 0 degrees to 100.<\/p>\n<p>September is the best time to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/mariamagadalena\/albums\/slideshow\/?album=43280\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Lights<\/a> because there is a decent length to night but it&#8217;s not too cold yet, and fall colors begin then as well. Hopefully we&#8217;ll see scenes such as <a href=\"http:\/\/photo.net\/photodb\/photo?photo_id=10737308\" target=\"_blank\">this <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/fuckyeahcanadianpride.tumblr.com\/post\/4867678546\/olgilvie-mountains-and-valley-in-autumn-yukon\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>. Bugs should be on their way out and the true terror of the north, black flies, should have come and gone. \u00a0We&#8217;ll camp out much of the time, but motels and such are fine, we&#8217;re not truly roughing it. \u00a0It will be nice to be far away from politics and being unable to spend so much time surfing the web.<\/p>\n<p>I will take my computer, so I may get some stuff off, but probably nothing very long.<\/p>\n<p>Back in mid-September.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been scurrying about and making lists preparing to leave for my big adventure starting this Saturday: the road trip of a life time to the Yukon. 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