Ever been to the Whitchurch-Stouffville Museum? Gone horseback riding in your home town?
Ridden the York-Durham Heritage Railway to Uxbridge?
Even with soaring fuel prices, you and your neighbours will spend thousands this year to see the world.
Go ahead and gawk at the Eiffel Tower or Big Ben. Wander past the ruins of ancient Rome, the Holy Land or Ground Zero. There’s nothing wrong with that.
The number of folks able to travel, and even work, far abroad continues to grow.
Heck, as a child of the 1960s, I can recall when it was a big deal for someone to be flying across the continent. Dressed in their Sunday best, they were shown off at the airport by every living relative from a 20-kilometre span.
Now, folks wear ultra casual clothing as they board big jets as if they were getting on a GO bus.
But, in all of this desire to conquer more and more of this planet, we miss many gems in our own little world.
Maybe $1.30 litres of unleaded will make us think smaller.
We can hit a few buckets of golf balls and grab an ice cream at one of the premier mini golf facilities in the GTA, Timber Creek Golf.
Or embrace your community’s heritage at the aforementioned museum in Vandorf. Ever been to the Woodbine Avenue hamlet?
More? There’s fishing from shore at Burd’s Family Fishing.
Bruce’s Mill Conservation Area is home to a driving range of its own, plus the Community Safety Village, 11 km of walking trails and more than 50 species of birds.
You can do your own mini vintners tour and visit Willow Springs Winery on Bethesda Road and Applewood Farm and Winery on McCowan Road.
Want more area ideas? Go to yorktourism.com
And get out there.
Jim Mason is editor of The Sun-Tribune.