Pukaskwa National Park is one of our favourite places and one of our favourite Ontario national parks to date. The beautiful, rugged landscape, the ancient and recent history, and the art connection are both luring and alluring. Pukaskwa National Park campsites are first come, first served sites and you cannot make reservations ahead of time. … Continue reading Pukaskwa National Park
We have many blurry or badly composed photos that we cherish. The reality is that we can't stop every time we see something interesting, beautiful, or just memorable. We do stop a lot, but sometimes we need to set some boundaries or we'll never get anywhere. Drive-by shooting to the rescue — in many cases … Continue reading [One Photo At A Time] Drive-By Shooting
For the sake of switching things up a bit, we are doing our trip summary as a separate post. It contains the general route and some statistics, campground locations and costs. To see the stories and pictures of the place we stopped at, click on the highlighted links Route: We left Ontario on a snowy … Continue reading Ontario, Galveston, Savannah: Trip Summary
Fort Pulaski is located on Cockspur Island, a small island between Savannah and Tybee Island in Georgia. It is certainly one of the most photogenic forts we've seen! Take a look at some of the photos below and enjoy the line trajectories and colours. Construction on the fort begun in 1829 and took 18 years … Continue reading Fort Pulaski
On our way to Savannah we stopped at Andersonville National Historic Site - a mega POW camp. The Andersonville Prison (also known as Camp Sumter), a Confederate POW camp at the end of the American Civil War between February 1864 and April 1865. The site contains the the POW camp, a National Cemetery and a … Continue reading Andersonville National Historic Site – A Mega POW Camp
Sometimes a place triggers our imagination and we have to go check it out. When we read about the remnants of a WWII German POW camp in the DeSoto National forest we had to go! We left Whitney Plantation with no specific plans for the night other than to boondock in the National Forest. We … Continue reading POW camp in the DeSoto National Forest
We left you as we were about to cross the border to Tennessee. We drove along miles of flooded cotton fields and continued on into clearer weather in Arkansas. A cold front made us change our plans slightly and instead of Eureka Springs, we drove straight to the warmer city of Hot Spring. Hot Springs … Continue reading Hot Springs to the Crater Of Diamonds
The weather on the Bruce Peninsula can change on a dime. The next day there was a break in the weather and it allowed us to hike the trails in the area. There are different trails and trail combinations to take in the Bruce Peninsula National Park. We chose to hike from the campground through … Continue reading Bruce Peninsula – Part 2
This tale is about the best little coffee house in Utah. It is also a tale of our shrinking world and online technology. Full disclosure, we did not try every single cup of coffee in Utah. If we did, this cup of coffee will to be up there with the best of the best. But … Continue reading The Best Little Coffee House In Utah
Our time in Cape Cod is almost over. One last stop on our way to the bridge - the Sandwich Glass Museum is a neat museum featuring rare glass mostly from the local Sandwich Glass Co. that operated between 1825 to 1888. We also watched a fascinating live glass blowing demonstration. Getting off the … Continue reading From Sandwich Glass to Vermont Cheese