Travels With Stacey

One of the hardest things to do when planning a trip is deciding where. Where do we go? Where is the best place to see during the timeframe that we have? Where can we see as much as we can? We had finished our summer…

“Ah, I missed you, ” sincerely said a boy who saw me. “Can you believe I am in grade two now?” I am a school bus driver. The vast majority of the time I spend driving is for high school students, but I also have…

It is an interesting angle. I am looking up at the blue sky, and there are a few clouds. The glass is dirty from hundreds of others who have walked through here before me. The water, for the most part, is clean, but there is…

There are two places we have been that have a lot of crosses: Quebec and the USA. The Cross at the Crossroads in Effingham, IL, was eye-catching enough that we detoured to get a better view. It is the final days of our summer trip…

Once again, I found myself devising a travel plan for someone else. I love figuring out how to make a trip work and all the places that are possible to explore. This itinerary differs from my usual one; I’ve created a list of possible places,…

“Welcome to the armpit of America,” was our greeting when we said we were Canadians. Neither one of us had expected to hear this when we walked into Walls Off Washington.   We love seeing large displays of art on the sides of buildings’ walls. We…

It is hard to believe that it has been three years since we last visited Cranbrook House and Gardens. This location has been one that I have been trying to revisit, but there are so many other places that also demand our attention. It was…

There is a stigma when it comes to mental health.  It is remarkable how medical science has been able to learn, understand, and treat various physical conditions. Still, when it came to conditions of the mind, the patient would suffer from being ostracized, or worse,…

We have visited numerous cemeteries over the years, as they offer a unique opportunity to appreciate art, and we also view them as a way to remember people we never met. I can imagine that most of the graves we have visited no longer get…

One annoying thing is going through all the effort to make a trip, only to find that we cannot go for one reason or another. Just view my Custom Maps page to see that this is an occurrence that happens too often. Admittedly, there are…