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A few weeks ago I kicked off our cross-Canada blog tour with B.C. blogs. This week I'm heading north to the Yukon. Now, as you may or may not know, in addition to ten provinces Canada also has three territories (if you thought there was only two, you were right until 1999 - I'll get to that in another post). For a primer on the Yukon territory check out Wikipedia or the Government of Yukon website. You can find such interesting tidbits of information such as the fact that while Yukon is the smallest of the three Canadian territories it's still larger than California! But who wants stats when there are Yukon bloggers to explore?
For our first stop let's stop in and visit Rebecca Writes. She's talking about something near and dear to all of us - gas prices.
Did you know that last summer The White Stripes did a gig in Whitehorse? Log Cabin Blog has the post and pics to prove it.
I know I only need to say three words to get you to go visit Yukon Jen - "hermaphrodite moose soup".
There's some serious biking going on in Yukon.
Dogsled Stacie is training for a road relay. She did a 53km (approx 32 miles) training run the other day. And Mrs North of 60 posted about how her bike lost five pounds. She's currently training for Ironman 2009.
As this family in Faro, Yukon demonstrates, when you live that far north taking a "trip down south" may not mean a trip to Mexico...
If you've read about the Klondike gold rush you've probable heard of Dawson City and if not you should go pick up a copy of Pierre Burton's Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush (and then possibly everything else Burton ever wrote). Burton himself grew up in Dawson City so perhaps I shouldn't be surprised that Dawson City has a blogging mayor. Ok, so the mayor is a BlogHim and not a BlogHer but wouldn't municipal politics be more interesting if all mayors had blogs?
Will we keep travelling across the north in hopes of a peak at the midnight sun? Or will we dip down into oil country and the home of the world's largest entertainment and shopping centre? You'll just have to stay tuned to the Cross-Canada Blog Tour to find out.
Contributing Editor Sassymonkey blogs at Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.
