Welcome to
RoadsideThoughts

We love planning trips and taking to the road: touring, stopping to see attractions, meeting people, exploring places from our family history and researching the genealogy of our family.

Most trips have been wonderful experiences and a few could have used more planning. Sometimes, luck decided our day. No matter the occassional surprise, we love travel.

Our interests and experiences have led us to build this website as a Gazetteer (an encylopedia of communities and places). It began as a tool to help us organize our family research and to plan future travel.

As this Gazetteer has taken shape, our interests have grown and we find ourselves collecting ever more information about the communities of America and Canada. We want to share this information and we hope it will be of use to you.

Building on our framework, we will continue to add new and more detailed information. It's a big task, it's going to take years and although we're trying to be as careful as we can, there will be mistakes. If you have any suggestions, recommendations or corrections, please don't hesitate to contact us.

We hope that our interests, experiences and thoughts will be of use to you.