July 8, 2025, was a great day for us on our America is Beautiful summer vacation. We visited a bird zoo, had lunch in the first place to put the “K” in KFC, visited a Hindu temple, and stopped at a Walmart to replenish our…
I heard of Mount St. Helens and the huge eruption that happened in 1980. That was so unexpected and shocking, but it was nothing like the volcanic lava flows of Hawaii or the fiery displays of Iceland. For Mount St. Helens, it was a loud,…
I put a lot of effort into researching a vacation. I want to utilize our time to the best of our ability and see and experience as much as possible. When we first started travelling, we did what I suspect most people do: hotels and…
This summer, we visited Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah as part of our America the Beautiful summer vacation. There are two reasons why I chose this name for our trip. First, the annual pass to all the National Parks in America is called the…
A couple of years ago, we took our biggest trip to date. It was a trip to Alaska and back, with hundreds of stops in between. One of the places that we visited was Devil’s Tower. This iconic rock monument in Wyoming was impressive. It…
Many people like to take souvenirs when they visit a place—a little memento of where they have been to help preserve the memory. On occasion, we want to take an interesting rock to bring home. However, a movie made this trend popular, and I have…
It has been a while since we have gone on a trip with Mom. We decided to show her Algonquin Provincial Park. This will be our second trip here, but her first, and it will also be the beginning of summer. The trip is designed…
For us Canadians, it was Victoria Day Weekend. This holiday celebrates the person who inspired the Victorian Era worldwide and is also the unofficial start of summer. Naturally, I had made plans for this celebratory festivity. Falling Head Over Heals for Waterfalls was the trip…
There was a time when I thought anything more than a two-hour drive was just too far, meaning I would never visit Algonquin Provincial Park. Algonquin is an enormous park that is impossible to miss on the map. It is actually larger than some countries.…
Planning a trip takes a lot of time and effort. My general rule is that it takes as much time to plan a trip as it does to take it. For a six-week journey, like when we travelled to Alaska and back, it took six…
