Winnipeg, the capital of the Canadian province of Manitoba, has The Forks as its heart. This is an historic site at the intersection of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, with warehouses converted to shops and restaurants, plus ample green space dedicated to festivals, concerts and exhibits. Nearby, the Exchange District is known for its well-preserve...

​  Galveston has a fascinating history and the tour guides from Galveston's Historic Ghost Tours do an amazing job of bringing it to life.   As our tour guide began to talk about the "boneyard," I almost felt the need to bend down and lift my skirts, as if I were wearing Victorian-era clothing as we stepped back in time into the hear...

​ This week for our young at heart adventure as we like to refer to them, we visited the Austin Aquarium. This place definitely fits into Austin's famous tag line, "Keep AUSTIN Weird." It is in fact, of all places, located in a shopping center. Yes, you read that correctly, a shopping center at 13530 US 183 #101, next to a Salvation Army store...

The Vallarta Botanical Garden in the Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallarta, on Mexico's Pacific coast, has been named one of the Top 10 North American Gardens Worth Travelling For at the 2019 Canadian Garden Tourism Awards Located15 miles from the city's historic centre it has 3,000 plant species with the Carnivorous Plant Collection; Rose Garden;...

As we emerge from the urban, palm tree forest, there it is. The 17,500-seat SAP Centre, a silver-sided edifice better known as the Shark Tank, is the home rink of the National Hockey League's San Jose Sharks. This is definitely going to be NHL hockey, California-style. My son, Alex, and I have walked three blocks up downtown's main drag of Santa Cl...

The State of Michigan has the longest freshwater coastline in the United States along with more than 100 public beaches, some of the highest freshwater sand dunes in the world. There are multi-colored sandstone cliffs, two National Lakeshores and the only national marine sanctuary in the Great Lakes, the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Lak...