Travels With Stacey

I didn’t know murals were a thing until I saw a flyer for the Sudbury. Initially, I thought Sudbury had the first and only murals and wanted to visit this city. When I was a kid growing up in Orangeville, there were two murals. To…

New York Botanical Gardens Holiday Train Show Sometimes you just need to leave. Sometimes life is just too much to handle and an escape is absolutely necessary. Sometimes that escape is a ten-hour drive to New York City. Things and events that were happening lead…

In my travels around Ontario and now into Quebec and the States, I have been to thousands of places over the past years.  The one thing that I have learned in all of this is that there are so many places to visit and see.…

Meadow Brook Hall is located on the grounds of Oakland University in Michigan. There is nothing sadder than losing a husband early in a marriage.  Understandably, the widow would travel to Europe for a while and eventually return to America and get a new husband.  …

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens is located in Pittsburgh USA Every now and again, you just have to get up and leave.  That is precisely what we did. I had expected to be working, but plans changed in a good way.  After a few hours…

Recently we visited St. Thomas, Ontario.  It is a beautiful town full of history and was once a central hub for the railroad industry and rail travel.  One of the activities we did was a mural tour.  Murals are a great way to beautify a…

With a flair for marketing and a product that would not meet any of the requirements of modern medical standards, George T. Fulford made his fortune from a tiny pink pill.  Dr. Williams’ Pink Pill for Pale People was essentially an iron supplement/placebo. He used…

If you are Canadian or have used Canadian currency, you would have noticed two very important men on the five dollar and fifty dollar bills.  At Laurier House National Historic Site, you will tour the home that was once owned by both of these prominent…

“I just missed it!” “Ugh.” “It would have helped to have known about it in the first place.” Those were my thoughts back in 2018.  I had seen pictures of these incredible displays of horticulture that I immediately regretted missing it. Mosaicultures and Mosaicanada were…

If ever there is proof of how much a tour guide enhances a location, it is here at Richardson Bates House Museum.  We were privileged to have May Kay Stone, president of the Oswego County Historical Society, lead us on a tour of this beautifully…