A Slice of Life
Bill Lites
Every year for three years now, I have been researching and preparing a road trip that included time for visiting museums in different parts of Canada, but the Covid-19 pandemic has kept those borders to our northern neighboring country closed. In 2020 I had planned to fly to Seattle, WA and renting a car to tour museums in several of our U.S. northwestern states and British Columbia Canada. That didn’t happen because of Covid-19 Canadian border restrictions. Bummer!
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I ended up flying to Denver, CO and renting a car to tour museums in 6 states including Colorado, Wyoming, S. Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Then in 2021 I had planned to fly to Detroit, MI and renting a car to tour museums in several our U.S. northeastern states and Toronto, Canada. That didn’t happen because of Covid-19 Canadian border restrictions. I was really disappointed!
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I ended up driving my van on my 2021 Road Trip on a long 17-day trip that included visits to museums in 13 states including FL, GA, SC, NC, VA, MD, PA, NY, OH, WV, KY, RN, AL, and back thru other parts of GA to FL. Then in 2022, I had planned to fly to Buffalo, NY and renting a car to tour museums in several more of our U.S. northeastern states and Ottawa, Canada. Again, that didn’t happen because of Covid-19 Canadian border restrictions. I was beginning to wonder if the Canadians were ever going to open their borders to visitors!
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ended up driving my van on my 2022 Road Trip to visit museums in 11 states from Florida thru GA, AL, MS, TN, MO, IL, IN, OH, KY, TN, NC, and back thru other parts of GA to Florida. Finally in 2023 Canada lifted their Covid-19 border restrictions so I planned to drive my van to visit museums on the route thru the 17 states shown in the photo below.
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In my researching, I have found that Canada has some very interesting museums, and the one that piqued my interest for this year’s Road Trip was The Royal Aviation Museum in Winnipeg, MB Canada. I am looking forward to seeing that museum’s great collection of beautifully restored military and civilian aircraft. There are many other unique museums in Winnipeg that I want to see while I am in that city. There are friends and relatives to visit along the way, as well as the many museums and points of interest in each state from my home in Florida to Canada and return.
—– To Be Continued—–
Bill is a retired Mechanical engineer living with his wonderful artist/writer wife, DiVoran, of 65 years in Titusville, Florida. He was born and raised in the Southwest, did a tour of duty with the U.S. Navy, attended Northrop University in Southern California and ended up working on America’s Manned Space Program for 35 years. He currently is retired and spends most of his time building and flying R/C model airplanes, traveling, writing blogs about his travels for Word Press and supporting his wife’s hobbies with framing, editing and marketing. He also volunteers with a local church Car Care Ministry and as a tour guide at the Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum there in Titusville. Bill has two wonderful children, two outstanding grandchildren, and a loving sister and her husband, all of whom also live in Central Florida, so he and DiVoran are rewarded by having family close to spend lots of quality time with.
One of Bill’s favorite Scriptures is: John 10:10
Old Things R New 
This is great, my husband and friend.
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