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  • Big Cypress – The Western Everglades

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Big Cypress located in Collier County has a lot to see. See bald cypress, royal palm, cypress swamp, marl prairie, pinelands, sabaL palm, peiphyton…


  • Alexandria, Virginia

    [Travel-and-Leisure:City-Guides-and-Information]
    Alexandria Virginia has a story to tell and unusual places to see. Explore George Washington Masonic Memorial, Lighthouse of Alexandria, Andrew Jackson Lodge, George Washington Lodge, Knights Templar, Tall Cedars, Gadsby’s Tavern and be surprised.


  • Why Doesn’t God Answer My Prayers?

    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality]
    “Why doesn’t God answer my prayers?” How often have we asked that question? “Almost too many to count,” we reprimand ourselves. We look for reasons why we aren’t heard by God.


  • Things I Have Learned the Hard Way in a RV

    [Automotive:RV]
    Problems and solutions I have encountered after seven years of RVing. Know the height of your RV, remember your TV antenna, slow down, Walkie-talkies and duct tape are your best friends.


  • Clewiston, Florida – Lake Okeechobee and the Seminole Nation

    [Travel-and-Leisure:City-Guides-and-Information]
    Clewiston and Lake Okeechobee have a story to tell, unusual places to see, and interesting people with unique experiences. Explore Clewiston, Lake Okeechobee, Tah Thi Ki Museum, Big Cypress and Billie’s Swamp Tours and be surprised.


  • Everglades National Park – A Lazy Flowing River

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Adventure-Travel]
    The Everglades National Park has a story to tell, unusual places to see, and interesting people with unique experiences. Explore Ahinga Trail, Flamingo, Shark Valley, 10,000 Islands, and the Pine Land and be surprised.


  • Wellston, Michigan – Want Some Canoeing Adventure?

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Adventure-Travel]
    Disaster on the Little Manistee River. Wellston Michigan has a story to tell, unusual places to see, and interesting people with unique experiences. Explore Little Manistee River, Pine Creek Resort, and Pine River. Be surprised.


  • Thumb of Michigan

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Visit the Thumb of Michigan. The Thumb is a peninsula, which thrusts itself into Lake Huron and is bounded by Bay City on the West, Port Austin on the North, and Port Huron on the Southeast. Travel past Victorian mansions on Center Street in Bay City. Motor down M25, which is the primary route, through Unionville, which has a large Moravian population. The Moravians brought to the US an interesting musical tradition based on their Religious beliefs. Neither has changed much in the last three hundred years.


  • The Upper Peninsula of Michigan – A Different World

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    An official welcome to the UP and a hearty hello from all of the Yoopers. Go to Paradise, twice. Paradise is at the junction of M123 and the road which goes to Whitefish Point, the Graveyard of the Great Lakes.


  • Thunder Bay, Ontario – A Tale of Two Cities

    [Travel-and-Leisure:City-Guides-and-Information]
    Once known as Fort William and Port Arthur, Thunder Bay united these two towns in 1970. Situated on Lake Superior and the Kaministiquia River it supports a population of 123,000. The city has become the melting pot to many cultures and nationalities: Scandinavian, French, English, First Nations, etc.


  • Marshall, Michigan – Do You Believe in Magic?

    [Travel-and-Leisure:City-Guides-and-Information]
    Marshall is the home of the American Museum of Magic. Illusionists such as David Copperfield, David Blaine, Harry Houdini and other are mesmerizing.


  • Lansing, Michigan – A Capital City With Many Interesting Secrets

    [Travel-and-Leisure:City-Guides-and-Information]
    Lansing is Michigan’s state capital. Go to the Michigan Historical Center in downtown Lansing. These connected buildings house the Archives, the State Library and the Historical Museum. The museum has interesting displays beginning with the dawn of the Native Americans to the present days. One of the interesting facts was the surveyor’s layout of the grids of Michigan, which President Jefferson ordered. There are baseline and meridian roads, which were the starting point for the surveyors.


  • Mackinac Island – Leave Your Car at the Ferry

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Mackinac Michigan has a story to tell and unusual places to see. Explore Mackinac Island, St. Ignace Michigan, and the Grand Hotel, and be surprised.


  • Lake Huron Coast in Michigan – Lighthouses and Many Surprises

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Plan a trip up US 23 along the index finger of the coast of Michigan. Take your time investigating the small towns along the way. First stop in Au Gres. Go to the marina and camp ground. From there you can go on a fishing excursion for perch and walleye on Lake Huron, at least Saginaw Bay. This includes tackle, license, bait, etc.


  • Jackson, Michigan – Republicans and Space

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Jackson, Michigan is located in South Central Michigan midway between Battle Creek and Ann Arbor on the I-94 corridor. It holds many surprises. Jackson is the home of the first formal meeting of the Republican Party, which nominated Abraham Lincoln for the Presidency in 1860. Found out later, in Lansing, that the only remaining wreath from Lincoln’s funeral cortege is hanging in the Historical Museum in Lansing.


  • Detroit Michigan Area – Cars and a Whole Lot More

    [Travel-and-Leisure:City-Guides-and-Information]
    Detroit Michigan has a story to tell, unusual places to see, and interesting people like Matilda Dodge. Explore Drayton Plains Nature Center, Waterford Michigan, Oakland University,and Meadow Brook Hall, Dearborn, Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village and be surprised.


  • Ann Arbor, Michigan – University of Michigan and So Much More

    [Travel-and-Leisure:City-Guides-and-Information]
    Ann Arbor Michigan has a story to tell, unusual places to see, and interesting people with unique experiences. Explore University of Michigan, Matthaei Botanical Gardens, and Michigan Stadium and be surprised.


  • Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    The Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve has many interesting places to visit and interesting stories about people such as Timucua Nation, Jean Ribault, and Zephaniah and Anna Kingsley. Visit Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Fort Caroline, Kingsley Plantration, Teddy Roosevelt Ecological Preserve, and the Ribault Club and be surprised.


  • Coldwater, MI – Theater and a Haunted House

    [Travel-and-Leisure:City-Guides-and-Information]
    Visit Coldwater to do some sightseeing. Coldwater is the home of the Tibbits Opera House. Opened in 1882, it was a stopping point for vaudevillians and thespians going between Detroit and Chicago. Some of the personalities who graced the stage were the Barrymores, Eddie Foy Jr., Joseph Jefferson, Chicago Symphony, etc. The Opera House is undergoing a major restoration project. Free tours are given when there is no rehearsal going open. The main drag is called Chicago Road, AKA as Sauk Trail. This is the same Sauk Trail which was only a block from our old house in Park Forest. Almost like a dirty penny, shows up everywhere.


  • Berrien Springs, Michigan – Wine Country and Archeology

    [Travel-and-Leisure:City-Guides-and-Information]
    Berrien Springs Michigan has a story to tell. Explore Andrews College, Seventh Day Adventist Church, Horn Archeological Museum, Lemon Creek Winery, Heart of the Vineyard Winery, and Tabor Hill Winery, and be surprised.


  • Battle Creek, Michigan – More Than Just Cereal

    [Travel-and-Leisure:City-Guides-and-Information]
    Battle Creek Michigan has a story to tell and unusual places to see. Explore Binder Zoo, Kellogg Cereals, and Wild Africa, and be surprised.


  • Hartford Connecticut – A Visit With Mark Twain

    [Travel-and-Leisure:City-Guides-and-Information]
    Hartford Connecticut has a story to tell, unusual places to see, and interesting people with unique experiences. Explore Hartford and be surprised. See Mark Twain’s home, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Connecticut State House, Bushnell Park, Old Connecticut State House, Joseph Steward’s collection of curiosities, Colt Armory…


  • New Haven, Connecticut – Elis and a Whole Lot More

    [Travel-and-Leisure:City-Guides-and-Information]
    New Haven Connecticut has a story to tell, unusual places to see, and interesting people with unique experiences. Explore New Haven Connecticut, Museum of the New Haven Colony Settlement, Eli Whitney, Charles Goodyear, Noah Webster, Joseph Cinque, Amistad Mutiny, Grove Cemetery, Yale University, Elihu Yale, Skull and Bones Society, Sterling Library, Woolsey Hall, Beinecke Library, Hillhouse Street and be surprised.


  • Mystic and New London Connecticut – Seafaring a Cut Above

    [Travel-and-Leisure:City-Guides-and-Information]
    Mystic and New London have a story to tell, unusual places to see, and interesting people with unique experiences. Explore Mystic and New London Mystic Connecticut…


  • South Central Connecticut – Castles and Submarines

    [Travel-and-Leisure:City-Guides-and-Information]
    Drive through the country side of South Central Connecticut. The country is very rolling, with many field stone fences.


  • Foxwoods Casino Museum – The Pequot Nation Revealed

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Foxwoods Casino has a story to tell, unusual places to see, and interesting people with unique experiences. Explore The Pequot museum and be surprised.


  • Irving EcoCenter – Take a Walk on the Dunes

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Irving EcoCenter New Brunswick has a story to tell and unusual places to see. Explore Bouctouche New Brunswick, Sand dunes, piping plover, Irving Gasoline Company, boardwalk, grasses and be surprised.


  • Fredericton, New Brunswick – A Capital City

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Fredericton New Brunswick has a story to tell and unusual places to see. Explore York-Sudbury Museum, Coleman Frog, Lord Beaverton, Christ Church Cathedral, Robert Burns Wilmot United Church and be surprised.


  • Miramichi, New Brunswick – Celtic Region of New Brunswick

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Miramichi New Brunswick has a story to tell, unusual places to see, and interesting people like Sister Marie Inconnu. Explore Coffin Ships, Looshtauck, Chatham New Brunswick, French Fort Cove and be surprised.


  • St John, New Brunswick – Home of the Reversing Waterfalls

    [Travel-and-Leisure:City-Guides-and-Information]
    St John New Brunswick has a story to tell, unusual places to see, and interesting people like Benedict Arnold. Explore Bay of Fundy, Fort Howe and be surprised.


  • Hopewell Rocks – Marvel at the Tides in the Bay of Fundy

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Hopewell Rocks New Brunswick has a story to tell and unusual places to see. Explore Fundy National Park, Fundy tides, Bay of Fundy and be surprised.


  • Beautiful Old Cape Cod

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Cape Cod has a story to tell. Explore Provincetown, Pilgrim Tower, Truru, Highland Beach Lighthouse, Jenny Lind Tower, Marconi Beach, and Nauset Beach Lighthouses and be surprised.


  • Glooscap Trail, Nova Scotia – Ride Along the Bay of Fundy

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Drive the Glooscap Trail, which winds along the Eastern Coast of the Bay of Fundy and its myriad of bays and bights. Stay the night at Joggins, a small town known for its fossil cliffs. People are allowed to walk the beaches and collect the rocks and perhaps find a fossil or two. People are not allowed to take any from the cliffs. But with the tides on the Bay of Fundy, some fossils are falling to beach every day. Take a walk down to the beach in the evening to watch the world renowned tides roll in. It had already come in over one hundred yards.


  • The Cabot Trail, Nova Scotia – Where the Ocean Meets the Land

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    The Cabot Trail runs 186 miles round trip. Highly recommend taking a tour bus for seeing the trail. Otherwise the driver will see none of the scenery. Bannockburn tours will take you for $65.00 (cost might be higher today) per person in a van on the trail with an escorted guide.


  • Halifax, Nova Scotia – A Capital City

    [Travel-and-Leisure:City-Guides-and-Information]
    Halifax Nova Scotia has a story to tell and unusual places to see. Explore the Atlantic Maritime Museum, CSS Acadia, Bluenose II, Pier 21 Nova Scotia, Keith’s Brewery, and be surprised.


  • The Fortress of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia – Step Back Into Time

    [Travel-and-Leisure:City-Guides-and-Information]
    The Fortress Of Louisbourg. The book said to spend an entire day there. As the crow flies, the Fortress is only twenty miles across the Island from Baddeck. The island, however is bisected, quartered and diced by Bras d’Or Sea, an inland salt water sea with many bays extending from it. An hour later we arrived at the visitor’s center for the Fortress. From there we boarded a shuttle bus for the two plus kilometer ride to the fortress itself, which sits on a spit of land jutting into the Atlantic Ocean. Be warned to bring something warm with you, because the temperature at the Fortress is about ten to fifteen degrees cooler than at the visitor center.


  • Baddeck, Nova Scotia – Alexander Graham Bell Territory

    [Travel-and-Leisure:City-Guides-and-Information]
    Go to the town of Baddeck, pronounced ba-DECK. It is the home of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. Mr. Bell was a teacher of the deaf, like his father who had developed a system of helping the deaf to speak. Because of his patents, he became quite wealthy and lived on an island across from Baddeck on the Bras d’Or Sea. There, with the help of his wife, family, and other inventive minds, he explored the theory of flight, making kites out of tetrahedrons, four sided shaped triangular forms.


  • Birchtown and the East Coast of Nova Scotia

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Birchtown. The guide book says that this was a community of Black Loyalist settlers, at one time the largest town of Black free citizens in the New World. The museum is housed in the old school house built in the 1830s, having replaced the original one from the 1700s.


  • Providence, Rhode Island

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Providence, Rhode Island has a story to tell, unusual places to see, and interesting people like Roger Williams. Rhode Island State Capital Building, Benefit Street, Brown University, Rhose Island School of Design, and be surprised.


  • Newport, Rhode Island – Summer Residences of the Rich and Famous

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Newport, Rhode Island has a story to tell and unusual places to see. Explore Naval War College, Americas Cup Yacht Club, Cliff Walk, Salve Regina University, Truro Synagogue, Channing Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church and be surprised.


  • New Bedford, Massachusetts – A Whaling We Will Go

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    New Bedford, Massachusetts has a story to tell and people like 54th Massachusetts Regiment, Captain Kearny Frederick Douglas, and Hatty Green. Explore Acushnet, Whaleman’s Chapel, Seamen’s Bethel, Marine’s Home, and the Whaling Museum. Be surprised.


  • Historic Fort William – A Trip Back in Time

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Ft William in Thunder Bay Ontario Canada has a great story to tell and interesting people like Simon McTavish and William McGillivray. Learn about The Northwest Fur Company and be surprised.


  • Fermont, PQ – The City in a Wall

    [Travel-and-Leisure:City-Guides-and-Information]
    Fermont PQ has a story to tell and unusual places to see. Explore Mount Daviault, Wright Mountain, Gagnon PQ, Groulx Mountains, Manicouagan and be surprised.


  • Take a Ride on the Rue Royale, PQ

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Rue Royale PQ has a story to tell. Explore Chateau-Richer Interpretive Center, Sugar Shack, Atelier Pare, Shrine of St Anne de Beaupre, St Joachim PQ, Cap Tourmente Wildlife Refuge, Mount Anne Canyon and Falls, Laurentian Mountains. Be surprised.


  • 400 Year Old Quebec City, PQ

    [Travel-and-Leisure:City-Guides-and-Information]
    Quebec City PQ has a story to tell. Explore Plains of Abraham, Artillery Park National Historical Site, Douphine Redoubt, Cathedral of Notre Dame Quebec, Laval University, Chateau Frontenac, Quebec Citadel, Montmorency falls and be surprised.


  • Around the Gaspe Peninsula

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Gaspe Peninsula has a story to tell and unusual places to see. Explore Cap Chat, Gaspe, Jacques Cartier, Micmac, Perce, Roche Perce, Bonaventure Island Provincial Park, and be surprised.


  • Drive Along the North Shore of the St. Lawrence River

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Cruising]
    St Lawrence River North Shore has a story to tell. Explore Whale Watching Trail, Baie Ste Catherine, Saguenay River Fjord, Ragueneau, Baie Comeau, M Rinald Girard, Manix 2 and be surprised.


  • Newfoundland Travels – Labrador

    [Travel-and-Leisure:City-Guides-and-Information]
    A beautiful day for traveling in Labrador. Travel the Trans Labrador Highway. Stop at L’Anse Amour, the site of a grave 7,500 years old. The grave site was found by a group of students who thought that the rock pattern was quite unusual. Under the rock they found an enshrouded child of about twelve, face-down, painted in red with a flat rock on the lower back. Artifacts associated with the burial include a walrus tusk, a number of stone and bone projectile points, a bird bone whistle, paint grinding tools, an antler pendant, a toggling harpoon and a decorated ivory eagle.


  • In and Around Montreal, PQ

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Montreal has a story to tell. Explore Lachine Quebec, Lachine Rapids, Samuel Champlain, La Prairie Quebec, St Joseph’s Oratory, Montreal Olympic Stadium, Le Ronde, Biosphere, Biodome and be surprised.


  • So Much to Do in Albuquerque, New Mexico

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Albuquerque, New Mexico’s largest city, was founded in 1660 with land grants to more than 100 Spanish families from the Duke of Albuquerque. Today it is one of the Jewels of the Land of Enchantment. We go back to the earliest history by visiting the Petroglyph National Monument, just West and North of the city.


  • Newfoundland Travels – Central Newfoundland

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Adventure-Travel]
    This is an article in the Newfoundland Travels Series. Central Newfoundland has a story to tell. Explore Bishop’s Falls, Grand Falls, Leading Tickle, Twillingate, Prime Berth, Hamilton Sound, Newton, Greenspond, Gander, Botwood, Fleur de Lys, Tilt Cove, Alexander Murray Hiking Trail. Be surprised.


  • Newfoundland Travels – Northwest Newfoundland

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    The is an article in the Newfoundland Travel Series. It covers Northwest NF: Explore Gros Morne NP, L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland Insectarium, Green Garden Trail, Tablelands, Trout Lake, Western Brook Pond, Parson’s Pond, The Arches, Port au Choix, St Anthony. Be surprised.


  • Newfoundland Travels – Burin Peninsula

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    This is a continuation of the Newfoundland Travel Series. Burin Peninsula NF has a story to tell. Explore St Lawrence Newfoundland, Point May Newfoundland, St Pierre and Miquelon, Fortune Newfoundland, Golden Sands Campground and be surprised.


  • How Do You Like the Color of Your Sand – White Black Or Reddish?

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    You can find all three within sixty miles of each other. From White Sands National Monument just South of Alamogordo, New Mexico to the Valley of Fires just West of Carrizozo, and Tularosa in between, you can have it all in one day.


  • Newfoundland Travel – St. Johns – Newfoundland

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    If you like to party, St. John’s Newfoundland is the place for you, especially the first week in August. On the first Wednesday in August, the city holds the longest continuous sporting event in North America: the regatta on Quidi Vidi Lake. For the entire week previous to the race, the city holds party after party: folk, rock, Irish music, etc. Streets are blocked off and bars stay open late. By the way, St. John’s is the Capital of Newfoundland with all that implies.


  • Newfoundland Travel – Channel-Port Aux Basque to Corner Brook – Newfoundland

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    This is a series of articles about our summer of 2003 in Newfoundland. This takes you from Port aux Basque to Corner Brook on the West side of the Island. Others areas of the island will follow.


  • Newfoundland Travels – Bonavista Peninsula

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    This is an article in the Newfoundland Travel Series. Bonavista Peninsula NF has a story to tell. Explore Catalina, Bonavista, Mockbegger Plantation, Trinity, Lester-Gardner Premises, Port Union, Tickle Cove, Red Cliff, Open Hill, Musgravetown and be surprised.


  • Silver City, New Mexico and the Gila National Forest and Cliff Dwellings

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Silver City, New Mexico grew to a bustling city because of the gold and silver discovery in the 1870s. One of its most famous citizens was Billy the Kid. We know of his reputation from Pat Garrett’s book “The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid.” Pat Garrett was the sheriff who killed Billy.


  • In and Around Santa Fe, New Mexico

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Visiting in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico opens up the eyes of each individual. Over four hundred years of culture and history, a walk on the streets of Santa Fe is a walk through time. Early settlers from the East found their way via the Santa Fe Trail. Today you can arrive via plane, train and auto.


  • Newfoundland Travel – Avalon Peninsula

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    The second in the Newfoundland Travel Series. Take a trip around The Avalon Peninsula on the Southeast part of the island. The weather constantly changes as you go around the peninsula. The article is written in the form of a diary.


  • Ticonderoga and Saratoga

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Fort Ticonderoga and Saratoga have a story to tell and interesting people like Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold, Horatio Gates, John Burgoyne, Thadeusz Kosciuszko. Visit West Point, Schuyler House ,Glens Falls, Cooper Cave, Bemis Heights, Lake George, and Lake Champlain. Be surprised.


  • Portsmouth, New Hampshire

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Portsmouth, New Hampshire has a story to tell and interesting places to see and interesting people like King George II, Benning Wentworth, and John Templeton Coolidge. Visit Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Fort Stark, and the Redhook Ale Brewery.


  • Seminole Canyon and Langtry, TX

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Seminole Canyon State Park features pictrography dating back more than four thousand years. Take a tour and learn about the lives of these people and the shamans who drew these pictures on the limestone walls and ceilings. Judge Roy Bean handed out Justice West of the Pecos in Langtry, Texas.


  • See Ouimet Canyon, Ontario, Canada

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Ouimet Canyon Provincial Park Features Arctic plants found 10,000 Kilometers from the Arctic. Eagle Canyon has the longest suspension foot bridge in Canada, 600 feet in length over the 152 foot deep canyon. Mine for your own amethyst at Blue Point Amethyst Mine near Thunder Bay Ontario..


  • Choosing Your RV

    [Automotive:RV]
    Choosing your full-time RV is a unique process for each person. Go to a RV show near you. Make sure you sit in the RV you are looking at and experience all of its amenities. Set your standards and needs. Here are some pros and cons of the different types of RVs on the market today.


  • Andersonville, Georgia

    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips]
    Andersonville, Georgia features the home of the most notorious prisoner of war camp in the Civil War, Camp Sumter. Today the site still exist along with the National POW Museum and Andersonville National Cemetery.

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