If you could take a trip to anywhere in the world where would you go?
07-05-2010, 08:17 PM
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I would just go to Calif to meet my neice who is 5 and nephew who is almost 1. They were born after we moved to Ky, I can't afford to go back and will probably never get to know them. ;(
07-05-2010, 08:48 PM
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I just came back from a wonderful trip- a weeklong cruise of the Great Lakes. My DH is a canal lock 'nut', and this was a Dream Cruise for him. The only way to go from Lake to Lake is through Canals with Locks. We learned a LOT about the history of Canada and the US on this trip.
I don't have pictures, because my camera decided it didn't want to go on the trip.
The cruise started in the far west of Lake Superior at Duluth which has a beautiful boardwalk along the lake front and a very good Maritime Museum; then to Fort William on Thunder Bay;next to Red Rock way up in Northern Lake Superior where the whole town turned out to greet us; we took buses from Red Rock to Lake Nipigon where Paddle-to-the-Sea began (I hope some of you read that wonderful book which won a Caldecott medal in the '60s to your DKs and GDKs); next through the Soo Locks to Sault St. Marie at the northern end of Lake Michigan and a day on Mackinac Island, including lunch at the fabulous Victorian Grand Hotel (one of my lifelong dreams) and horsedrawn carriage rides all around the island, which is car-free!; next, Lake Huron to Manitoulin Island, the largest island in a fresh water lake in the world (I was surprised to hear that, too) - one of the Ojibwe tribes on the Island has never ceded title to its land, and is still sovereign; then we cruised Lake Erie, passing Detroit. Finally, we visited Niagara Falls & went on the Maid of the Mist boat. I had wimped out of doing that with my family years ago, but I'm glad I went last Friday - it was really thrilling to get that close to the foot of the Falls. That afternoon we went through the Welland Canal's 7 locks which drop 326 feet in 7 miles on the way to Lake Ontario. We left the ship in Toronto and flew home.
I don't have pictures, because my camera decided it didn't want to go on the trip.
The cruise started in the far west of Lake Superior at Duluth which has a beautiful boardwalk along the lake front and a very good Maritime Museum; then to Fort William on Thunder Bay;next to Red Rock way up in Northern Lake Superior where the whole town turned out to greet us; we took buses from Red Rock to Lake Nipigon where Paddle-to-the-Sea began (I hope some of you read that wonderful book which won a Caldecott medal in the '60s to your DKs and GDKs); next through the Soo Locks to Sault St. Marie at the northern end of Lake Michigan and a day on Mackinac Island, including lunch at the fabulous Victorian Grand Hotel (one of my lifelong dreams) and horsedrawn carriage rides all around the island, which is car-free!; next, Lake Huron to Manitoulin Island, the largest island in a fresh water lake in the world (I was surprised to hear that, too) - one of the Ojibwe tribes on the Island has never ceded title to its land, and is still sovereign; then we cruised Lake Erie, passing Detroit. Finally, we visited Niagara Falls & went on the Maid of the Mist boat. I had wimped out of doing that with my family years ago, but I'm glad I went last Friday - it was really thrilling to get that close to the foot of the Falls. That afternoon we went through the Welland Canal's 7 locks which drop 326 feet in 7 miles on the way to Lake Ontario. We left the ship in Toronto and flew home.
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