Travels With Stacey

I am working on my travel map of Michigan. These are all the places I hope to see eventually. Check out what I have discovered so far on this page.

We love zoos. We love free zoos even more. But we did not love the parking. The cost of parking was as much as admission would have been at a regularly priced zoo. We were in Washington, DC, during the period between Christmas and New…

This is a really nice picture of my wife as she sits on a stone wall with Chatanooga in the background. But this is also a picture of when I thought she had only seconds to live. As with every pic, there is a story…

We have started our tours of the continent for this year. So far, we have not travelled as much as we could, opting to enjoy the place we call home.  Still, there have been places we have seen, and you can see the pics that I…

Growing up, I never really understood the romance some people have with their cars. I have always considered a vehicle a means simply to go from one spot to another. My view changed when I finally got my license and discovered that owning a car…

My sister would occasionally invite a lot of friends over to her cottage. When there were too many to sleep in the cottage, she would have them all stay in trailers. When those were too full, there would be tents. My daughter, Caitlyn, would have…

It has been quite a while since I saw a documentary on Russian peasants. The main thing that stands out from that show is that the village would go to one particular location and gather dirt. This wasn’t any old dirt, but one high in…

Yeah, Charlene ain’t too happy with me in this picture.   I took this when we were travelling out east last summer. We were visiting Queen’s Wharf in Charlottetown, PEI. There is a structure that encourages the placing of love locks. When I first heard of…

Rocket Fizz is a specialty store that features many different pop flavours. When I saw this flavour, it immediately brought me back to my childhood. As a young, playful child, where being outside with friends was the best form of entertainment, I found myself in…

Last year, while on our summer vacation, I was plagued with the question: “Where are we going to go next year?” After a year of fretting and fussing, I finally settled on Vancouver Island. There is so much out there to explore, and it is…