Its not just a place for kids, it’s a place for teens and adults and babies, too. Best of all, the parking is free. It has everything from the cells in your veins to the stars in the sky. It even has a history section on the first floor. I Read more…
It’s free. I don’t care if you’re not interested in history. It’s free, so you should go. It’s next to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery so it’s not even out of the way. Go. The upstairs gallery does a great job putting American history in context of Buffalo. From wooly mammoths Read more…
Distance: 967kmDate: 26-27 May, 2023Location: Ontario Up front: BMW makes really sturdy tactile buttons that are satisfying to click and don’t rattle around. Unfortunately, this generation 3-series only has one of those—it’s the steering wheel heater button. The other steering wheel buttons are shiny and reflect too much sunlight, the Read more…
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. According to the Internet, it’s a grammatically correct English sentence. It means something like buffalo bullying other buffalo something something something in Buffalo. You can look it up yourself. The waterfront area has two retired naval ships and a submarine open for Read more…
The University of Michigan’s main campus is in Ann Arbor, about an hour west of Detroit. Its fist buildings were built in Gothic revival style. It was founded in 1817, but classes didn’t begin 1841 because it wasn’t established as a modern university but more like a network of lecture Read more…
About an hour west of Detroit, Ann Arbor is most well-known for being a college town to the famous University of Michigan’s main campus. But it was also known to be an automotive industrial town in the 20th century. The red brick buildings along the former Ann Arbor Railroad tell Read more…
I had my preconceived notions of what a corporate branded museum would look like, but I was only partially right. I thought there would be a gallery on the company’s products and a PR video on the innovations it gave to the glass industry. Turns out, it’s part glass history Read more…
You can buy a combined admission ticket to both the Corning Museum of Glass and the Rockwell Museum for a discount price. The secret is to go to Rockwell first, get the combined ticket, before going across the river to Corning to avoid a timed ticket. This way, you can Read more…
Corning is famed for being the home of the glassware giant that spawned Pyrex, Corelle, and the space shuttle’s windshield. It began life as a settlement by Erastus Corning in 1835 before becoming a village 13 years later. Today, Corning is the town’s largest employer with its headquarters here. Cultural Read more…
Plaza Premium Lounge (Zone B) Any traveler with an eligible credit card, a PPL pass, Dragon Pass or cash to pay are welcome at Plaza Premium lounges. This one near gate B12 is a smaller hidden location for domestic travellers in zone B of the terminal. Its awkward triangular shape Read more…