Travels With Stacey

Charlene and I visit many heritage homes that have become museums. Often, these places are filled with period furnishings, and we are given insight into the history of those who lived there and the community that they lived in. Most places we see are from…

One of our favourite places to visit is religious sites. We love shrines, churches, cathedrals and, in this case, St Patrick Basilica in Ottawa, Ontario. We were celebrating Family Day with Mom and decided that our weekend would be in the Ottawa region. Mom, too,…

I really like this image. It is one of contrast. In front, a starving Ukrainian girl who represents the oppression that Ukraine suffered from a forced famine. In the background is a poet. Tara Shevchenko is considered to be the founder of the modern Ukrainian…

Family Day was born in Canada when there was a need for a long weekend to celebrate something. For my wife and I, we have this time off. And what better way to celebrate Family Day than with family? We invited Mom to come along.  …

Washington, D.C. has been on my travel hit list for some time now.  But, it is a little far for us to make the drive worth the effort.   That changed when our plans to visit New Brunswick fell through and there was no way I…

We love visiting beautiful places.  Places that were designed and inspired by greatness.  Places that are maintained out of respect and reverence.  Places like churches. In our travels, we have found that our greatest attraction is churches.  There are many around, but so few have…

I was innocently driving my beloved wife to work when she asked me if we were going on a trip. I was completely taken by surprise. I had never even thought of it.   I have a doctor’s appointment coming up in Toronto, the kind of…

The day we started was great! Well, actually, it wasn’t. We were happy to be alive after a windstorm that kept us up all night. The night before, we arrived late.  We planned camping at Horseshoe Bend Campground in the Big Horn Canyon National Recreation…

I remember Andy Warhol when I was growing up.  I saw him on Fashion Television, a show that was popular in my childhood home, even though we did not care about fashion, haute couture, or anything remotely related to those things.  It was that the…

Our day started fantastically.  We broke camp where we were just outside of Banff.  We saw three elk males hanging out together in the early morning.  One was trying to spar with the others.  We left the majestic mountains of Alberta and entered Calgary to…