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Mindful Chickens in Canada
October 14, 2019
Posted by Mary Beth

In case you don't already know... My husband and I did a 15-day road trip to eastern Canada.  Kurt Vonnegut wrote “Unexpected travel is like dancing lessons from God.”  The plan was to visit Nova Scotia and Newfoundland – but then Hurricane Dorian changed that. Stories and photos at my website. https://www.marybethdanielson.com/

The Erie Canal; Means and Dreams
October 3, 2019
Posted by Mary Beth

Crown Point, Ticonderoga, and Saratoga
October 2, 2019
Posted by Mary Beth

Not everyone wants to see where the American Revolutionary War got up and got going - but we did.

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The summer after college I worked in my family’s printing business, trying to earn and save enough to move out. To where I was not sure, but somewhere!

"The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley..."
September 26, 2019
Posted by Mary Beth

Thank you, Robert Burns, for that title. 

We were driving from Gaspé to the next town when this happened.

Gaspé Peninsula & MB's Big Hike to See Gannets
September 26, 2019
Posted by Mary Beth

Like I wrote previously, our plan was to turn to the right at the bottom left hand side of the map (see below) and drive east to Nova Scotia and then shoot up to the 7-hour ferry that would schlep us to Newfoundland.

Following the St. Lawrence River: “Further up and further in.”
September 22, 2019
Posted by Mary Beth

We drove right past Montreal and Quebec.  We really “should” have turned off the Trans-Canada and gone into these cities to see historical sites I have been reading about for years.  Except, well, neither of us wanted to ‘do a city’ yet.  We love city life, but cities don’t kindle imagination the same way as the surprise of smaller towns and the beauteous unrolling of fields and woods, river an

The Day the Niagara Escarpment Won
September 18, 2019
Posted by Mary Beth

I adore the Niagara Escarpment and you probably do, too.

Let's go to Canada. It will be beautiful and convenient and nothing will get too crazy.
September 17, 2019
Posted by Mary Beth

Hi! Len and I returned home at 1:30AM from our 15-day road trip through eastern Canada and Maine and more.  

An afternoon in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
September 17, 2019
Posted by Mary Beth

Sault is a French word that mean topsy-turvy as in the rapids on the St. Mary river that tumbles between the US and Canada. Or summersaults. Isn’t that cute?