There are hundreds of museums to explore. Many of them are local history museums, and these are one of my favourite places to visit. It contains much of what is important to the community, and when I travel with my wife, it is necessary to…
I have a guideline when I start to plan a road trip: two hours per day. If it is just a day trip, then the farthest I want to travel is two hours. This gives us plenty of time to drive there, explore what is…
Few events galvanize the entire world. We all know where we were when we first learned of the events unfolding on September 11, 2001. I was driving home, listening to the radio and wondering what the commotion was, then seeing the images on the TV,…
I am good at planning trips, and I have experience in mapping, routing and calculating everything involved in exploring the part of the world that we live in. On my travel itinerary, I have the distance between each location, with the time to drive there,…
The United States of America is a large country with a proud political history. The first modern democracy and history backs up the power of the people. Gerald Ford was the president of this great nation for some time, and he was the only unelected…
Recently we travelled to Grand Rapids, Michigan, to see a winter event. It was a nighttime event, so we had time to fill in the day. Since we both love museums, we would visit Grand Rapids Public Museum. As with all museums, it features things…
This place was so amazing; I only wish that it was bigger. The Midwest Miniature Museum has been on my “Top Priority List” since I first learned of it. It features some of the most amazing, incredibly detailed miniature versions of life. When Charlene tagged…
“Are we doing anything this weekend?” Charlene asked me. We were just sitting on the couch watching something on TV. Having her ask me if we are doing anything is code for her wanting to do something. I looked outside and noticed that it was…
We were on our first ever mega-trip to West Virginia. We popped into the state museum for West Virginia and was so very impressed. It was the best museum we had ever traveled to, at the time, and above all, it was entirely free. I…
I like art and I like free. Now combine them together to see free art, that is the best. The more I have travelled, the more I have discovered that universities are great places to see free things. Be these geology museums, or science places,…
