Travels With Stacey

Okay, it is a rock garden: just rocks and one statue thingy. I know, it just rocks—boring rocks. But it’s not boring when you get to think of it. How are rocks made? How they come to be. What are they made of? The history…

Once you get to the rock, the view is amazing. Getting to the rock is one devil of a time, probably why it is called Devil’s Rock. It is a mere one and a half kilometres so on a good, flat surface, just 15 minutes…

D-I-V-O-R-C-E Obviously on such long road trips we listen to a lot on music. Charlene can be heard singing along to the songs and as anyone knows, the last song has a tendency to get stuck in one’s head even when it has long stopped…

It was a sad reason why we were up in Thunder Bay for our first visit to this northern Ontario city.  My wife’s father had died, and she needed to get away.  We did a rapid, four-day round trip to this city just months after…

Earl is a 9 ton, all steel bison that is on the side of the road. It is hard to miss when driving in the Earlton area. I had decided to pull over for this mini-stop and a quick picture. I really appreciate that there…

We finally got to do this. Years of delays. Then figuring out how to get the time off. Planning. More planning. And then there was the money aspect. Once all of these were set, we drove to Alaska. It has always been a dream of…

We were on Day One of our Alaska Trip.  Our previous stop was Kapuskasing Internment Cemetery, and we were still shocked at the treatment of people who just wanted to live their lives.  Our next stop would be Reesor Siding Memorial. When I plan a…

At first, I thought Google was wrong.  It rarely happens, but was my trusty Google Maps leading me to the wrong location? There have been three times when I wondered what Google was thinking.  I would find myself down a “road” that was barely a…

I needed a place to watch the sunrise.  Charlene and I have never seen the sun rise into the sky in our adventures.   We decided that this was going to be the year that we would finally venture to Alaska.  Delay after delay (all brought…

We have visited the North Bay area several times, and I kept omitting to visit this one location.  I can’t tell you why.  It is effortless to find.  It is on the main road leading north of the city, has a huge parking lot, and…