New Brunswick…The Drive Through Province? We Need Some Roadside Personality!!!
Okay, seriously, what is up with New Brunswick and its pathological roadside sign phobia anyway? The province would dearly appreciate, and could seriously use, more tourism dollars…or so it says… but it sure as heck doesn’t want to tell anyone how to get to where they want to go…Or...
Grade 8 Travel Club Montreal Adventure
Be an explorer. The universe is filled with wonder and magical things. — Flavia To celebrate their graduation from Middle School this year the Grade 8 Travel Club took a fantastic and fun 4 day bus trip to Montreal. 41 fourteen year olds made the journey this...
Blast From the Past! Hillhurst Tourist Home in Perth
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. — Lao Tzu We thought we’d take you on a little trip down memory lane on this page. Graeme and Linda Shaw, having lost their riverfront home, have moved into the old Stewart farmhouse up...
Creating a New Paradigm
“All the darkness of the world cannot put out the light of a single candle.” The following essay is from the wanttoknow.info website, a news source that I find very informative and useful, especially in these weird and parlous times upon good old Mother Earth. This essay focuses...
The Day of the Crocodile or, Flooded Out in Northern Ghana
The vivid accounts of the flooding in Perth-Andover, having reached me by chance in far-off Ludwigsburg, Germany, have brought back memories of my own flood experience years ago in the West African nation of Ghana. That’s the way floods are. Provided you survive, you do get over them. But...
Monkey Sea Monkey Do
Do you remember the old ads for the wondrous creatures called Sea Monkeys? Maybe this ad is still featured prominently in comic books, I haven’t checked….but for sure back in the early 60’s this ad was on the back of every comic book I ever read as a...
Coral Castle
Did you ever stop to wonder how the pyramids really got built? And I’m not talking about that nonsense we all got fed in school about thousands of slaves with ropes and whips and logs supposedly moving giant blocks of stone weighing hundreds of tons. And this did...
PAFD Decoded!
Are you one of the over 6,000 registered PAFD Lotto entrants who eagerly await the Saturday evening Lotto Draw? Have you ever wondered how the lucky winners, or not so lucky non-winners, get their names picked? We ourselves were curious, and asked Chief Phil Walker if we could let...
Venus Transit 2012
Next month our solar system will experience a Venus Transit, one of the rarest of planetary alignments. This spectacular event takes place on June 5th and will be visible to us here in NB at sunset. Venus will be visible as a small spot moving across the face...