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It's 2025. What things do you miss now that we used to have?

We don't take that as a joke here.
And you shouldn't.

Not that I'd mind one bit seeing the combined armed forces of the entire Commonwealth of Nations all over Trump like ugly on a warthog.

As to vacationing alone, I've been doing that for decades, mainly because my late mother had a phobia about sleeping away from home (to the point where she would drive home, tired, from spending a day with her lifelong best friend 72 miles away, rather than spend a night away from home), and because my father's vacations tended (he stopped taking vacations in his late 80s, and he's 90 now) to be car-trips to visit relatives and old friends.

I spend my vacations visiting museums, zoos, aquariums, historic sites, and natural wonders. All of which actually work rather well if you're alone. My first visit to Hawaii, I visited 3 islands in a single week, and (by my own request) had my travel agent book one of my interisland flights on a small, low-flying, turbofan aircraft, giving me "flightseeing without wasting fuel on a flight-to-nowhere." My second trip to Hawaii was at a more leisurely pace, four islands in two weeks, including a dozen museums (ranging in size from multi-building complexes down to an unattended exhibit hall in a shopping mall), two zoos, two aquariums, two agricultural exhibits, a National Park, and seeing the underwater scenery off Lahaina from the comfort of a nice, air-conditioned submarine. And out of both trips, I never set foot on a single beach, and never attended a single luau. Pre-COVID, I regularly visited Chicago; I don't know what kind of fertilizer they put on their museums there, but they sure do grow 'em big! I've also made several visits to Colonial Williamsburg (and incidentally, the early-1970s childrens novel, The Bobbsey Twins' Red, White and Blue Mystery, is so well-researched that you could find your way around CW just from memories of reading the book as a child!)
 
And you shouldn't.

Not that I'd mind one bit seeing the combined armed forces of the entire Commonwealth of Nations all over Trump like ugly on a warthog.

As to vacationing alone, I've been doing that for decades, mainly because my late mother had a phobia about sleeping away from home (to the point where she would drive home, tired, from spending a day with her lifelong best friend 72 miles away, rather than spend a night away from home), and because my father's vacations tended (he stopped taking vacations in his late 80s, and he's 90 now) to be car-trips to visit relatives and old friends.

I spend my vacations visiting museums, zoos, aquariums, historic sites, and natural wonders. All of which actually work rather well if you're alone. My first visit to Hawaii, I visited 3 islands in a single week, and (by my own request) had my travel agent book one of my interisland flights on a small, low-flying, turbofan aircraft, giving me "flightseeing without wasting fuel on a flight-to-nowhere." My second trip to Hawaii was at a more leisurely pace, four islands in two weeks, including a dozen museums (ranging in size from multi-building complexes down to an unattended exhibit hall in a shopping mall), two zoos, two aquariums, two agricultural exhibits, a National Park, and seeing the underwater scenery off Lahaina from the comfort of a nice, air-conditioned submarine. And out of both trips, I never set foot on a single beach, and never attended a single luau. Pre-COVID, I regularly visited Chicago; I don't know what kind of fertilizer they put on their museums there, but they sure do grow 'em big! I've also made several visits to Colonial Williamsburg (and incidentally, the early-1970s childrens novel, The Bobbsey Twins' Red, White and Blue Mystery, is so well-researched that you could find your way around CW just from memories of reading the book as a child!)
I used to read the Bobbsey Twins. I might have read that one. It would have been 50-odd years ago, though.

So, natural history... BC is full of natural history places. I would definitely recommend staying at least a week on Vancouver Island. There are some fantastic parks and trails there. I still have the rocks and shells I collected on China Beach back in 1977.

For Alberta, I'd definitely recommend the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology in Drumheller. That area is rich in dinosaur and other fossils, and it's a world-class museum and research facility.
 
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