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Category: Travel

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  • Get-away Weekend: Reaching the Tip

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    Wheatley, where we spent our second night, is located just a few kilometers from Point Pelee, the southern most part of main land Canada. The qualification mainland is relevant as Middle Island is the southern most point in Canada, and that island is about 35 kilomters off the Point. Point Pelee is on the same…

  • Get-away Weekend: The Bad Lands

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    Erin was our first stop. Located near that village are the Badlands. They were actually exposed as a result of the land being cleared for farming in the early 1900’s. Removal of the vegetation combined with overgrazing by cattle exposed the shale to the elements. Use of the land for grazing stopped in the 1930’s,…

  • Get-away Weekend

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    Linda and I took a long weekend in South-Western Ontario, driving from Bond Head to Erin (where we spent Saturday night), then through Seaforth to Wheatley on Sunday. Monday we drove to Port Dover and Tuesday we returned home.Most of our journey was along country road, which surprisingly had very little traffic. Lots of pretty…

  • Travel: Land and Cityscapes

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    This is a compilation of photographs landscapes and “cityscapes.” After arriving in Munich we drove up to Nürnberg. The Pegnitz river flows through the city offering serene views such as those below. While staying in Boppard on the Rhine we took a cruise to St. Goarshausen to see the Rhine Gorge which is said to…

  • Travel: Then and Now

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    Last Christmas my father arrived at our house with a stack of photo albums. In the end I digitized close to 200 pictures, many taken by my grandparents and many were from their home town of Sonneberg. On our recent trip to that town I was able to take some more current shots: