Location: Texas, Oklahoma Date: August 4-7, 2023 Distance: 1,185 km Up front: I’ve ridden in a friend’s Volvo S60 before and I didn’t think seats could get more comfortable—but they do. The seats in the latest generation 5-Series have pillowy headrests, adjusts a million ways and the sensatec plastic leather Read more
Located right across the street from the Kingston Penitentiary, Correctional Service Canada’s museum is housed inside Cedarwood, the former house of the prison warden. Entry is free. The lower level has exhibits on early forms of punishment, basically torture, for prisoners until 1969. Water boarding, locking inside a coffin, and Read more
Sharing the grounds with the Kingston General Hospital, the Museum of Health Care has the same long history as the 1830s hospital. It is the largest hospital between Toronto and Ottawa and only hospital in Canada to still be in its original building. The museum building used to be dormitories Read more
The oldest Lighthouse on Prince Edward Island is Point Prim Lighthouse built in 1845. It’s 60 feet tall and a $5 fee will let you climb up to the top. It’s 20 feet wide at the bottom by narrows to just 10 feet at the top, so extremely fat people Read more
The confederation of Canada happened in Charlottetown. In 1864, 23 representatives from the five eastern provinces excluding Newfoundland and Labrador met here to discuss forming a federal union. A competition began in the 1950s to build the Confederation Centre of the Arts and over 40 submissions were entered. In 1964, Read more
The Acadian Museum in Moncton is run by the University of Moncton. It has to be visited with forts Beauséjour and Lawrence to understand the context of the conflict between Acadian, the French, the British, and indigenous Mi’kmaq people in the mid-18th century. The experience is largely dependent on reading Read more
Charlottetown is the provincial capital of the smallest province in the confederation, Prince Edward Island, which is several times smaller than Vancouver Island. Though small, it played the biggest part in confederation by hosting the meeting that led to the confederation of Canada. In 1964, the city built a replica Read more
Andrew Carnegie donated almost all of his wealth and some of it has been used to build the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. They should have a bundle to visit all four museums but you have to buy three separate tickets instead. They even encourage timed ticketing, but how am Read more
The Andy Warhol Museum in his native Pittsburgh is under the umbrella of Carnegie’s museums. Visitors start at the top floor of the building and work their way down six floors of galleries from his early life in New York after he graduated from Carnegie Tech all the way to Read more
Philanthropist steel baron Andrew Carnegie spent much of his career building the steel industry in Pittsburgh, also known as Steel City. There are more than a dozen yellow steel bridges crisscrossing the Ohio and Monongahela rivers, skyscrapers mirroring each other’s steel grids, and light rails grinding on steel tracks. Pittsburg Read more