I call myself the travel addict on a budget, but with recent increases in gas, food, and everything else, I now consider myself the travel addict on a really, really tight budget. Unless I want to do another staycation this summer, (NOT!), my mission is to find exceptional deals and innovative ways to vacation with my family of four. This trip must be flexible since my elderly parents have …
Ontario is wonderful in the fall. For me, going out on an autumn day is like biting into a crisp apple. Yesterday was the first day of fall. I was driving from Sudbury to Toronto when I noticed way ahead of me, what looked like a huge black dog coming out of the woods. Despite being far away, I slowed down only to realize that it was a huge …
Recently I visited The Warrior Emperor and China’s Terracotta Army exhibit at Toronto, Ontario’s Royal Ontario Museum. I was not disappointed. This is the largest collection of artefacts relating to the Warrior Emperor ever displayed in North America. Included are ten life sized terracotta figures. Discovered in 1974, the tomb of Warrior Emperor Ying Zheng is the largest tomb complex in China. Eight thousand full sized terracotta warriors and …
If you think this beach is on Cape Cod or a tropical island, you’re wrong. This beautiful, sandy beach is Ontario’s own Long Point, a peninsula in Lake Erie, 45 km southwest of Simcoe. Public beaches and a provincial park are located on this sandy spit. A United Nations recognized biosphere reserve, these sandy dunes and marshes are home to birds, fish, turtles and frogs. They are also rest …