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…
Something weird has happened to me when I take my wife on trips. An odd and often overwhelming sense of nostalgia fills me. This sentimental longing for the past, with positive feelings of emotion and even happiness, is happening more frequently. Only this year did…
Every year, 90 million acres of land in the United States of America are planted with corn. Corn is a vital crop used for food, animal feed, sweeteners, alcohol, fuel, plastic, and even medicine. Without corn, things will be very different in our society. The…
As a kid, I only ever encountered a sock monkey once. I was unimpressed with the toy and found better things to play with. That changed when I visited the Sock Monkey Museum during our trip called Blown Away by Christmas in the Windy City.…
I never felt so uncomfortable taking a picture as I did for this one. I am a bus driver, and the school board I serve has this excellent policy of having PD Days the day before a long weekend. This is great because it turns…
Life has a way of changing plans. I had to cancel our original summer vacation and discovered we could do it again. Because so many of the places we would visit in the first itinerary would be fully booked, I had to come up with a…
Life has a way of changing things. One thing that changed was our summer vacation. I created a plan and discovered we could not make this journey. But fear not! We will not venture to the West this year but will be able to do…
After an unusual hiatus from travelling, we will be venturing out to see a bunch of waterfalls. These natural wonders where one can watch water falling over some rocks were the first destinations we sought when we first discovered an entire world outside of our…
It was 1977, when I was just 6 years old, when Steven Spielberg released Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It was a phenomenal movie that grabbed my attention when I first saw it on TV. Two parts of that movie that grabbed my attention…
I had one of two options for this upcoming Easter weekend. OPTION 1: Nothing. OPTION 2: Something. I didn’t like option one, but it was the best option, and I held this position for over a month. There are several reasons for this belief—first, my…
