We have seen places our parents could only imagine in their wildest dreams!
As we travel, we plan to fill the pages with what we learn as we explore this beautiful world and meet its magnificent people. We hope all who stumble upon these pages will enjoy what they find here and will be inspired to get out of town!
The Welland Canal
Saturday, we went to Niagara Falls. The sight of the falls was just as awesome as it was fifteen years ago. We’ve seen Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe as well as Iguazu Falls between Brazil and Argentina, and they are both spectacular, but Niagara is the clear winner to us. Don’t know why and…
Shiver Me Timbers
Pirates of the Caribbean get all the air time. All the movie gigs. And they always make off with the really good booty – jewels, gold doubloons, serious treasure. The proverbial pot of gold seems to always await them. Everyone knows Disney’s Jack Sparrow, that legendary swashbuckling bad boy. But how about the gangsters of…
Lake Huron’s Georgian Bay
We awoke Monday to a bright clear morning back in Canadian waters at Georgian Bay, Killarney, Ontario. This has to be one of the most beautiful places we’ve seen in a very long time and the weather could not be more perfect. The ship is moving tonight, but we will still be in Georgian Bay…
The Wreck of the Fitz
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down/Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee/The lake it is said, never gives up her dead/When the skies of November turn gloomy With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more/Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty/That good ship and true was a bone to be…
Mackinac’s Fillies and Fudgies
On Friday, we visited Mackinac Island. The island is car-free, so there are horses and bikes everywhere. We took a carriage tour and were told that the carriage company has 400 horses on island. The horses don’t wear diapers, so they have crews that scoot around with wheelbarrows and shovels and clean up the…
My Yellow Submarine
So we sailed on to the sun/‘Til we found a sea of green/And we lived beneath the waves/In our yellow submarine We all live in a yellow submarine/Yellow submarine, yellow submarine/We all live in a yellow submarine/Yellow submarine, yellow submarine ~~The Beatles, “Yellow Submarine.” 1966 Seems appropriate that Viking named this ship’s yellow submarines…
Herculaneum
Herculaneum was a first century resort town. It was located on some prime real estate on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea where wealthy Romans relaxed, boated, and swam in the sea. Homes were lavishly decorated to please the elite citizenry of Rome. Frescoes, mosaics, artwork, and sculptures were elaborate and beautiful. There were shops…