Goodbye Santa
As a bus driver, I have learned some fantastic and exciting things spoken by the kids behind me. The most recent conversation between two students might have caused irreparable harm to the belief in Santa Claus. I drive to three schools. All three schools share…
Dinosaurs Were Good At Karate
The things that I can learn as a school bus driver are amazing. It has been over 30 years since I have been a student in the educational system, and there have been some stunning and fascinating changes in that time. So when the children…
North American Reciprocal Museums
We love museums. Most of what we visit on a road trip would be classified as a museum: art, science, history, heritage and more. So when I heard of North American Reciprocal Museums, I had to join. Membership includes free access to over a thousand…
Orangeville Christmas Lights
The best thing about Christmas is that others love this season as much as we do. One of our favourite December trips is driving around communities and seeing the lights and displays others have put together. It is even better when someone has gone out…
Celebrating Christmas
Ah, Christmas. It is the most festive time of year. If only it were easy to find Christmas-themed activities. Searching for Christmas has become such a hard thing to do, these days, now that Christmas is taboo and its utterance is forbidden. After all, who…
Virginia Beach Road Trip Map
I love planning trips, especially when I get lots of time to research and see what I want to do. Virginia Beach is not a place to visit during the final days of winter if you want some rays of sunshine and to start early…
March Break Decided – Virginia Beach!
One of my favourite things to do is travel. My second favourite thing to do is plan on the itinerary to travel. My third thing to do is researching all the places that we can go and see. My job has me off this March…
Kenora, Ontario
The northern city of Kenora was our last major Ontario stop on our recent travel of the continent and, ultimately, to Alaska. Although we could only afford to spend a few hours in this great town by the lake, we captured as much of it…
The Centre of Canada
When I was a child, my father had a job to build a church in Winnipeg. We would be home during these travels when he played his part in constructing churches in various regions of Canada. On this one occasion, he borrowed someone’s car and…