Waterfalls of the North Shore

Minnesota’s North Shore Minnesota’s North Shore, which runs along the northern banks of Lake Superior has more than it’s fair share of waterfalls, I think the state has about 200 of them. Upper Falls – Gooseberry Falls State Park The campgrounds in the State Parks here during the weekends are booked out months ahead as […]

Sleeping Bear Dunes

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan 23 August 2016 Sleeping Bear Dunes lies on the western side of Michigan next to Michigan Lake and comprises of three areas, like it was an afterthought and they couldn’t get all the land. The national parks campgrounds were fully booked out so I found a county campground in […]

The Ford Trifecta

The Henry Ford, Dearborn Michigan 19-21 August 2016 We spent a couple of days visiting the factory, the museum and the living museum. The Ford Rogue Factory Tour With some help from the technical magazines he read, Henry Ford worked on cars in his spare time. His first car was the Ford Quadricycle Runabout which he […]

The Most Famous Falls

Niagara Falls, NY & ON Horseshoe Falls from the Canadian side We chose a state campground on the Ontario Lake on the American side, just north of the falls as the weather was a few degrees cooler than anywhere south, but it was still hot. Late in the afternoon the heavens opened and I’ve never […]

The Adirondacks

The Adirondacks, New York State Every since Halifax, it has been humid and walking in humidity when you aren’t used to it is hard work. The wildlife refuge was in the Adirondacks, it’s a national park but not in the same sense as the others we have been to. There is no “entrance” to the […]

Getting to know the wolf

Adirondacks Wildlife Refuge 7 August 2016 There is a wildlife refuge in the Adirondacks that we visited on our second day back in the US. Steve who runs the refuge gives an incredible talk for about an hour on the history of the wolf. He walked us through man leaving Africa after the Ice Age […]

The Canadian Fur Trade

Montréal, Québec 4-7 August 2016 The first thing you notice about Montréal is the skyscraper buildings. We drove into the city but couldn’t fit into any of the underground carparks, so we had to go down to a carpark by the docks. The streets in the old part of the city are still cobblestone and […]

Time to dust off my French

Québec While we were in New Brunswick, all the road signs had been in English and French. Now that we were in Québec. Oo, la la. It’s all in French. It’s like you’ve jumped countries but didn’t have to present your passport. Lindsay was saying that they should have bilingual signs, it’s not like everyone […]