Recent Adventures

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Most Recent Adventures

2015 was our most recent travel.

At age 85 I have given up foreign travel
and most travel within the US
more than two hours drive or especially after dark

 

2015

July

Historic Governors' Mansion

Cheyenne, Wyoming

More Photos of Cheyenne

 

2014

Experience these yourself with HolidayCheck

 

Grace Episcopal Church, Old Saybrook, Connecticut

More Photos of Old Saybrook

January 2014

 

The William H. Seward House Museum

More Photos of the Seward House Museum

May 2014

 

St Louis Union Station

More Photos of St Louis Union Station

June 2014

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2013

 

Musée de Cluny

More Photos of Paris

 

M/S Chardonnay docked on the bank of the Rhone River

More Photos along the Rhone River

April 2013

 

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh

More Photos of EAA, Oshkosh, Wisconsin

July 2013

 

Museum of International Folk Art
Santa Fe, New Mexico

More Photos of Museum of International Folk Art

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August 2013

 

front door into the porch
Charleston, South Carolina

More Photos of Charleston

October 2013

 

Renaissance Vinoy Resort
St Petersburg, Florida

More Photos of St Petersburg

November 2013

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2012

 

Grenada

More Photos of Grenada

 

Carnival 2012

More Photos of Trinidad

February 2012

 

San Ignacio Miní

More Photos of Argentina

 

Jesús de Tavarangue Ruins

More Photos of Paraguay

March 2012

 

Babyland General, Cleveland, Georgia

More Photos of Babyland General

April 2012

 

Christ the Redeemer

More Photos of Brazil's Colonial Cities

May 2012

 

National Museum, Tirana, Albania

More photos of Albania

 

Saint Clement, Ohrid, Macedonia

More Photos of Macedonia

 

Mosaics, Pella, Greece

More Photos of Greece

June 2012

 

"Jupiter" of the Central Pacific at the "Golden Spike"

More Photos of Utah

July 2012

 

"Mailjumper" delivering mail by boat to mansion on Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

More Photos of Lake Geneva

August 2012

 

Bryce Canyon quilt

Wisconsin Public Television,  Quilt Expo, Dane County Exhibition Hall

More Photos of Quilt Expo

September 2012

 

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Austin, Texas

More Photos of Austin

October 2012

 

United States Capitol
Washington, D. C.

More Photos of Washington, D. C.

November 2012

 

Detail of La Pigna sculpture on Atwells Avenue gateway arch,
Providence, Rhode Island

More Photos of Rhode Island

December 2012

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2011

 

Dome of the Rock

More Photos of Israel

February 2011

 

Mobile Bay, Alabama

More Photos of Alabama

May 2011

 

Joya de Cerén, El Salvador

More Photo of Joya de Cerén and El Salvador

 

Copan, Honduras

More Photos of Copan, Honduras

 

large kite at Sumango, Guatemala

More Photos of Sumango Kites

 

market in Santiago de Atitlán, Guatemala

More Photos of Santiago de Atitlán

 

Sunrise over Tikal, Guatemala

More Photos of the Sunrise

 

Mask Temple, Lamanai, Belize

More Photos of Belize

June 2011

 

Louis Sullivan's Jewel Box, Grinnell, Iowa
 

More Photos of Iowa

July 2011

 

Doors of Dublin

 

Adare, Ireland

More Photos of Ireland

 

Giants Causeway, Northern Ireland

More Photos of Northern Ireland

 

Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo

More Photos of Scotland

August 2011

 

 Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Photos of Bulgaria

September 2011

 

Nashville

Photos of Nashville

November 2011

 

Chicago's Christkindlmarket

Photos of Chicago

December 2011

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2010

 

Timor-Leste flag

 

Presidential Palace, Timor-Leste

More Photos of Timor-Leste

March 2010

 

Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
Parliament House, Darwin

More Photos of Darwin

 

Church of Tuvalu

More Photos of Tuvalu

 

Virginia State Capitol

More Photos of Richmond

April 2010

 

Staten Island ferry passing Governor's Island
New York City

More Photos of New York City

May 2010

 

Budweiser Brewery
St Louis

 

"Lee", a Clydesdale horse
for pulling the Budweiser Beer wagon

More Photos of St Louis

June 2010

 

4th of July Fireworks at Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA

More Photos of Fireworks

July 2010

 

City of Rocks, Idaho

More Photos of Idaho

August 2010

 

Buffalo, New York, City Hall

More Photos of Buffalo

September 2010

 

Longwood Gardens

More Photos of Longwood Gardens

October 2010

 

Branson, Missouri

More Photos of Branson

November 2010

 

Jamestown, Accra, Ghana

More Photos of Ghana

 

Togo

More Photos of Togo

 

Benin

More Photos of Benin

 

Cameroon

More Photos of Cameroon

 

Principe

 

Coffee estate on Sao Tome

More Photos of Sao Tome & Principe

 

Gabon

More Photos of Gabon

 

Republic of the Congo

More Photos of Congo-Brazzaville

 

Swakopmund, Namibia

More Photos of Namibia

December 2010

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2009

 

Maori show

Photos of New Zealand

January 2009

 

Joshua Tree National Park

Photos of Joshua Tree National Park

February 2009

 

South Beach, Miami

Photos of Miami Beach

 

Great Camp Sagamore, Adirondacks, New Yorkrk

Photos of Sagamore

May 2009

 

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas

Photos of Las Vegas

June 2009

 

Villa Philbrook, Tulsa, Oklahoma

More Photos of Tulsa

July 2009

 

the passenger canal boat for visitors on the
Illinois and Michigan Canal

Photos of the Illinois and Michigan Canal

August 2009

 

Prague Castle above the Moldau river

Photos of Prague

September 2009

 

Portland, Oregon

Photos of Portland

October 2009

 

Panama Canal

More Photos of Panama

November 2009

 

colonial architecture in Cartagena

More Photos of Cartagena, Colombia

December 2009

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2008

 

train station in Maputo, Mozambique

More Photos of Mozambique

 

African theme fabrics at a market in Swaziland

More Photos of Swaziland

 

Bourke's Luck Potholes, South Africa

More Photos of South Africa

January 2008

 

highlands of Lesotho

More Photos of Lesotho

February 2008

 

White Sands, New Mexico

More Photos of New Mexico

 

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona

More Photos of Arizona

March 2008

 

Capelinhos Vulcano, Faial Island, Azores.

More Photos of the Azores

April 2008

 

Lisbon Cathedral, built after 1147 over the remnants of the mosque of the Islamic period.

More Photos of Lisbon

May 2008

 

Toronto

More Photos of Toronto

June 2008

 

Finnish Homestead in the Upper Peninsula, Michigan

More Photos from the UP

July 2008

 

State House in Lansing, Michigan

More Photos of Lansing Michigan

 

Cuneo Mansion, Lake County, Illinois

More Photos of Lake County

August 2008

 



 Ribe Cathedral (Ribe Domkirke), Denmark

More Photos of Denmark

 

Schwerin Castle, Mecklenburg, Germany

More Photos of Mecklenburg, Germany

September 2008

 

two year old female, Mei Lan, at the Atlanta Zoo

Other Photos of Atlanta. Georgia

October 2008

 

Hunsecker Mill Covered Bridge
Lancaster County. Pennsylvania

More Photos of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Covered Bridges

November 2008

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2007

 

Guard at Presidential Palace in Dakar

More Photos of Senegal

January 2007

 

Presenter at Juffure ("Roots" Village)

More Photos of the Gambia

February 2007

 

William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Center, Little Rock, Arkansas

More Photos of the Clinton Presidential Library

March 2007

 

Porta Nigra, Trier, Germany

More Photos of Germany

 

square and cathedral, Luxembourg

More Photos of Luxembourg

 

cathedral interior, St. Gallen, Switzerland

More Photos of Switzerland

April 2007

 

spires of the Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain

More Photos of Barcelona

 

street below the castle, Liechtenstein

More Photos of Liechtensten

May 2007

 

on the Bay of Fundy

More Photos of New Brunswick Canada

 

Cog Railroad to the top of Mount Washington

More Photos of New Hampshire

 

More Photos of Vermont

June 2007

 

Milwaukee Museum of Art

More Photos of the Milwaukee Museum of Art

 

Taliesin

More Photos of Taliesin

July 2007

 

Cumberland Bridge in Matthews, Indiana

More Photos of Covered Bridges in Indiana

August 2007

 

Peterhof, Saint Petersburg, Russia
taken on tour of Russia and Baltic States

More Photos of

Saint Petersburg

Moscow

Minsk

Vilnius

Riga

Helsinki

September 2007

 

Morocco and the Sahara

Elderhostel in Morocco

October 2007

 

Hunsecker Mill Covered Bridge, Lancaster County

Covered Bridges in Pennsylvania

November 2007

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2006

 

Jalisco dance

More Photos of Guadalajara, Mexico

March 2006

 

Palace of the Winds, Jaipur, India

Photos of India

April 2006

 

Chase County Courthouse, Cottonwood Falls. Kansas

Photos of Kansas

May 2006

 

St. David's Cathedral, Wales

Photos of Wales

June 2006

 

old torch, in the Museum of the
Statue of Liberty, New York City

Photos of Statue of Liberty Museum

July 2006

 

Shaker Boxes and Baskets

More Photos of the Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky

August 2006

 

Sacred Heart church, Montmartre, Paris, France

Photos of France

September 2006

 

Budva, Montenegro

Photos of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro

October 2006

 

City Hall, Philadelphia

Photos of Philadelphia

November 2006

 

Maison Pfister, Colmar, France

Photos of Alpine Christmas markets

December 2006

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2005

 

Cheops pyramid at Giza, Egypt

More Photos of Egypt

February 2005

 

Castle in Kanazawa, Japan

More Photos of Japan

March 2005

 

Statue of the Lincoln family in Springfield, Illinois

More Photos of Lincoln Museum and Library

April 2005

 

Panda at the Wolong Research Center, China

More Photos of China

June 2005

 

aboard the m/s Juno traveling through the Göta canal, Sweden

More Photos of Sweden

July 2005

 

Cumberland Falls

Cumberland Falls and Folkmoot

August 2005

 

Erie Canal

More Photos from the Erie Canal

September 2005

 

Watkins Glen

Corning and Watkins Glen

October 2005

 

Cumberland Bridge in Matthews, Indiana

Covered Bridges of Indiana

November 2005

 

Roman mosaics from a rich Roman's villa (Diocletian period 286 - 305 AD)
Piazza Armerina, Sicily

Other Photos of Sicily

December 2005

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2004

 

Rose Bowl Parade, Pasadena, California

January 1, 2004

 

Western Greece and the Ionian Sea

April 2004

 

Bryce Canyon, Utah

South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, Colorado

June 2004

 

Statue of Liberty, New York harbor

New York City

July 2004

 

One of the Mansions of Newport, Rhode Island

Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island

August 2004

 

Jackson Covered Bridge in Parke County, Indiana

Photos of the Covered Bridges in Indiana

October 2004

 

Fallingwater

More Photos of Fallingwater, Pennsylvania

 

Lower Humbert Covered Bridge

More Photos of Covered Bridges of Somerset County, Pennsylvania

October 2004

 

a half meter long bratwurst on a freshly baked roll with mustard

More Photos of German Christmas Markets

December 2004

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2003

 

Ukraine

April 2003

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North Western North America

 

Yukon

 

Alaska

 

British Columbia

 

Alberta

 

Saskatchewan

 

International Peace Garden

June 2003

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Colonial and Revolutionary Virginia

Jamestown/Williamsburg/Yorktown

 

Wren building, William and Mary College

Elderhostel program at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia

August 2003

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bridge in Avignon

Provence, France

September 2003

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Chile

 

San Rafael glacier

Elderhostel program on the Mapuche and the Fjord lands of Chile

More Photos of Chile

November 2003

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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

 

an early colonial Moravian settlement

More Photos of an Elderhostel program in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

December 2003

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2002

 

San Blas Islands, Panama

April 2002

 

"Down East", Maine and Campobello Island, New Brunswick

June 2002

 

Grand European Highlights by Train

July 2002

 

Ontario Waterway Cruise

August 2002

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North Africa

 

Egypt

 

Libya

 

Tunisia

October 2002

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2001

 

  

Ivory Coast

January 2001

     

Niger

January 2001

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Parts of the Former Soviet Union

Kaliningrad, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Moldova

April - May 2001

 

Kaliningrad

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Uzbekistan

Tajikistan

Turkmenistan

Moldova

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Elderhostel in San Diego, California

 

San Diego

June 2001

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Great Rivers of Europe

Austria, Germany, Holland, Belgium

 

Along the rivers

June - July 2001

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Czech Festival in Wilber, Nebraska

August 2001

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In Search of the Source of the Nile

Zanzibar, Tanzania, Uganda

 

by Dhow from Zanzibar to the African Continent

 

to map the vast spaces

On the trail of the Explorers

September 2001

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learned of American Civil War and the Indian Territories

Elderhostel at Kerr Mansion, Poteau, Oklahoma

October 2001

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The Van Gogh/Gauguin exhibit at the Art Institute

Other Photos of Chicago

November 2001

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theater tour to New York City

New York City Photos (2001)

November 2001

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