The Daytripper (and your camera) Everywhere! TOWN NAME, TOWN NAME and another awesome TOWN NAME SHOP LOCAL Winners! Barb Wilbur and her sister Brenda Bratt, Wallaceburg, at Crazy 8 Barn in Palmyra. Congratulations... …and thanks for sending us your photos! <strong>Daytripping</strong> delivery driver Dave McClure, of Grand Bend, is in Chile, with his friend Jack of Killarney, Ireland, in front of the city park. “Actually, your magazine got as far south as the Magellan Strait in Punta Arenas. I should have posed in front of Magellan’s statue there.” Maria Figueredo and Jeff Gallant of Brantford picked up their Daytripper at the Brantford Farmer’s Market and enjoyed a daytrip to Waterford Antique Market. Sandy and Sam Wallis and Jon and Kendra Palumbo cycling with their Daytripper. “My daughter Sandra and I recently visited my sister Marjorie in the Netherlands. Marjorie enjoys the <strong>Daytripping</strong> paper very much. I bring her as many volumes as I can when I visit her. She also collects them when she visits Canada.” l-r Sandra deBruyne and Marjorie Martens, with Nella deBruyne, of Sarnia at Ruben’s Kaasspeciaal Zaak in Terneuzen, Zeeland, The Netherlands. Bella Joseph-Plain is waiting to board the Chi-Cheemaun in South Baymouth, Manitoulin Island. We stayed at a cottage for a week on the island and LOVED IT! Photo taken by Bella’s dad, Harrison Plain. Send to: DAYTRIPPING, BOX 430, BRIGHTS GROVE, ON N0N 1C0 Email: info@daytripping.ca <strong>Daytripping</strong> will donate $25 to the charity of your choice (or one of our choice if one isn’t chosen) upon publication of each photo. Every entry we publish throughout the year is also entered into the annual contest for a chance to win great prizes from our generous sponsors! Photos must be mailed or emailed (minimum 200 dpi) and cannot be returned. Digital photos are preferred. You may enter as many photos as you wish. Be sure to include the photographer’s name, mailing address and phone number. Contest void wzhere prohibited. 20<strong>21</strong> prize winners will be announced in the November-December 20<strong>21</strong> issue. Entries for the 20<strong>21</strong> contest will be accepted until August 10th 20<strong>21</strong>. Unpublished photos are eligible for future contests. For more information call 1-800-667-0337. Uniqueness is what WINS! *To be eligible, a cover of <strong>Daytripping</strong> must appear in every photo entry. Thanks to our Generous Partners! Think Outside the Box! Richard Hain, Brampton I’m hoping to be the first to submit for the Stay Home, Stay Safe <strong>2020</strong> Edition! Richard set up this shot with his 360 camera. Victoria Playhouse Petrolia Enter the20<strong>21</strong> Photo Contest! Robert Wadlow, the world’s tallest man at Ripley's Believe It or Not! Be Original! Photo by Mark Moran <strong>Daytripping</strong> Win Great Prizes! Pinecro, Aylmer Erie Beach Hotel, Port Dover Blyth Fesval Theatre, Blyth John M. Hall Linens, Paris Berry Hill, St. Thomas Crazy 8 Barn, Palmyra Coyle’s Country Store, Tillsonburg LeeAnn Welch, Heather Pollard, Lauri Ryan and Robin Lansue, of Chatham, visit Groovy Moon in Aylmer while “Backroading Elgin”. Chocolate Sensaons, Paris Sparta Country Candles, Sparta Robert Hall Originals, St. George Page 2 ‘twas the night before quarantine and all through the town, <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>2020</strong>/<strong>21</strong>
Like it or not, we are living in the computer age. I knew when I first sat down in front of a computer, nervous and a bit scared, that a lot of things were about to change. That was 25 years ago. I needed to learn that new skill in order to start <strong>Daytripping</strong> and it’s been a love-hate relationship ever since. Right now I’m particularly upset at all the passwords I now need to know. They started simply enough, I just needed to choose 4 digits. Too easy! I was born in 1965, so 1965 it is. Or was. It wasn’t long before I needed a password for something else and obviously wanted to use the same one so that I could easily remember it. Too easy, or so I thought, until my computer told me that it was exactly that... it was too easy! My computer informed me that someone might guess my password because it’s the year I was born. Well I’m a trusting soul and couldn’t understand why anyone would want to infiltrate my computer, but I desperately wanted to play Space Invaders and needed a new four digit password so I went with 5691 (don’t tell anyone) and it tricked the computer (It’s really just the year I was born backward!) I’m sure all of us will agree that things have gotten a wee bit more complicated over time. Like the time I wanted to order tickets to the ninth and final Star Wars movie (still can’t believe I waited 42 years for them to blow it). I assumed it was my usual password, which by this time had to be between 8 and 20 characters, include a capital letter, a number and a special symbol, so I entered Justinbieber#1. However, my password wouldn’t work. It said the password was incorrect. Then it dawned on me that I’ve had to change the password at various times on some of the 82 things I need passwords for, so I typed in my next go-to combination — Mariahcarey#1 — but it didn’t work either. Then my computer threatened that I had only one more chance, and that it would force me to choose a new password if I got it wrong a third time. Of course I have all 82 passwords safely stored away in my computer (and password protected) but I was being lazy and thought for sure that it had to be my super-secret one... Trump4moreyears$. That didn’t work either. So then I had to reset my password, which took forever. I ended up with tickets in the fourth row (which is not ideal at a movie) and my password is now MiddleFinger3*# So that’s what I like, and mostly don’t like, about passwords. The other thing I’m having a wee issue with these days is human interaction. Not all that long ago there were three primary ways to interact with other people. We would go visit them, we would mail them a letter, or we would call them on the telephone. That’s become far more complicated as well. I have no desire to go back to the days when the rotary dial telephone chained us to the walls of our kitchens as our primary method of communication, however, it’s getting to be a bit much. Case in point. Someone had left me a message the other day, but for the life of me I couldn’t recall who it was or by what method he contacted me. I knew it was a man. It could’ve been a phone call, in which case it should’ve been stored in the messages on my iPhone, or in <strong>Daytripping</strong>’s messages. Of course it could be in my personal email account, or in my work email account, or in that other email account I rarely use, or in TOWN NAME, TOWN NAME and another awesome TOWN NAME I got your message, I just can’t find it! in Southwestern Ontario that other, other one that I never use. Oh, maybe it was a text message I received and it’s still in that part of my phone. If only I could remember if it made a ding sound when I first received it, because my incoming texts make a ding sound. Or it could’ve been sent through the WhatsApp app on my phone, which makes more of a droop sound. While we’re talking about sounds and notifications, I might add that my work alert is a dog barking, my wife calling me is a typical telephone sound and there’s a resounding swoosh noise anytime CNN wants to inform me that President Trump has done something stupid. I don’t think there’s a sound for when he does something wise. If there is, I haven’t heard it (I was just kidding about that password). Yesterday my phone vibrated and sort of went k-dangle and I was mystified. It yurned out to be someone reaching out to me through Kijiji. Maybe that’s where my missing message was hiding. The Weather Network notifies me with a bloop if it’s going to rain, as if they have the ability to foretell such a thing. The office fax machine rarely comes to life but when it does it’s with that familiar ratatat-tat. The occasional Amber alert scares the Bejeezus out of me. Let’s not forget about Facebook messenger. I had to shut the audio alerts off of this one and it’s a bit creepy. It knows when I’m looking at it and so do other people. Anytime I’m using it I get hugs and kisses and heart emojis from a female staff member I met at a resort in Cuba where my wife and I stayed. I think someone wants to visit Canada, and stay forever! She can see when I’m on the app... it’s kind of like when you Google adult diapers and ads for casinos start popping up on your computer screen, not that I would know. My Instagram doesn’t make any noises... it just sits there politely on my phone’s screen with an icon that tells me that I’ve ignored the last 13 notifications. Twitter begs me every day to look at it, so it doesn’t get to make a noise either. TSN werps me to pass along any prominent sports news, the calendar on my phone blips me so that I don’t forget important events, and… I think that might be it. These may be the only ways that I can be reached, for now, but I still have my Boy Scout handbook in case you’d like to use Morse code. Oh, I forgot about LinkedIn (or maybe that’s just wishful thinking). It wasn’t that long ago that I only reached my customers by their business phone, mail, email, or in person. Now I have many of their cell phone numbers and we can communicate by any number of these other mediums. Many of my younger customers don’t expect me to call and are quite surprised when I actually go to their place of business. So, getting back to the missing message, after scouring my email accounts, combing through the past couple weeks of texts and checking all my other apps I finally remembered where it was saved. It turns out that he had called me and I answered the phone. We actually spoke to each other and I wrote the message down on a piece of paper. How primitive! Have a safe and wonderful Christmas and a better new year than <strong>2020</strong> was. Thanks for reading! Mark Moran, Publisher November - February 20<strong>21</strong> This issue is dedicated to... Miles Caskie <strong>Daytripping</strong> Features Daytripper’s Directory Pullout Map..........35-38 “Where You Should Eat” List...........................39 Tourism Contact Information..........................37 <strong>2020</strong> Photo Contest Winners............................2 S.W. Ontario’s (Largest?) EVENTS List.............. 46 Antique Tours..............................................24,48 Buy Fresh, Buy Local, Farm Markets...........12,13 Recipes........................................................28,29 Corkscrews & Craft Brews................................34 Tidbits & Tales..................................................11 On The Covers 1) “One Stop Shopping” by John Sloane 2) “Photo Contest Winners - See page 2 Your Contributors John Sloane, Barb Wilbur & Brenda Bratt, Ruth Sharon, Vicki Hornick, Agnes Burroughs, Susan Iedema, Maryleah Otto, Laurie Dunbar, Carrie Durance, Stan Scizlowski, Helen Lammers-Helps, Victoria Stirling, Judy Lenting, Deborah Jantzi, Jeanette Paddon, Jacoba Bos, Mary MacVicar, Randy Goudeseune, Maria Figuerdo and Jeff Gallant, Marney Cloutier, Paul and Anita VanAdrichem, Laurie Burrows-Breakey, Betty Popelier, Dale and Michele Docker, Esther Meerschaut, Sam and Sandy Wallis, Jon and Kendra Palumbo, Sandra deBruyne, Marjorie Martens, Nella deBruyne, Harrison Plain and Bella Joseph-Plain, LeeAnn Welch, Heather Pollard, Lauri Ryan, Robin Lansue, Richard Hain, Dave Steadman, Paul Schneider, Stan & Clare Champ, Jim Ryan, Debbie McCormick, Dave McClure, John & Nancy Van Geel, Dave Brown, Tim Beaudette, Dorothy Debruin, Rick Wismer, Barbara Perrin, that persnickety, elusive unknown author, numerous graphic designers and printing firms, and the outstanding <strong>Daytripping</strong> office, sales and delivery staff have been instrumental in helping us create this issue. 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