It’s summer! And Orillia’s Street Alive is celebrating with flowers. Lots of native Ontario flowers along the main street. The idea is “to get people thinking about planting native Ontario flowers that attract pollinators” said project founder Leslie Fournier. “I must have flowers, always, and always.” ― Claude Monet Collingwood, ON Read more…
The last time I posted about Collingwood’s painted Muskoka chairs was in 2019. This year, Collingwood is back with Art on the Street featuring painted chairs again! As always the chairs are colorfully painted by local artists and lined up in Hurontario St. The chairs surely made our walk colorful! Read more…
The reasons for this road trip 1) Check out as many covered bridges, lighthouses and barn quilts as we can in upper Ohio. 2) See Helen, Georgia. 3) Visit friends in Hamilton, Ohio. US States we crossed – New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia The big surprises Meeting Masonic Read more…
We the #2laagans are firm believers of the adage “Travelling gives one a new perspective, and makes you meet great people along the way.” Just a list of the many wonderful encounters we had with strangers in our 15 day road trip from Collingwood, Ontario to Clarkesville, Georgia. Brothers from Read more…
The chasing continues. The Smolen–Gulf Bridge is a covered bridge which carries State Road (Ashtabula County Road 25) across the Ashtabula River at the Plymouth and Ashtabula Township line in northern Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States. At 613 feet (187 m), it is the longest covered bridge in the United States – a title formerly held by the Cornish–Windsor Covered Bridge in New Hampshire and Vermont – and the fourth Read more…