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
2014
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Grace Episcopal Church, Old Saybrook, Connecticut
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
2013
Musée de Cluny
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
October 2013
Renaissance Vinoy Resort
St Petersburg, Florida
November 2013
2012
Grenada
Carnival 2012
February 2012
San Ignacio Miní
Jesús de Tavarangue Ruins
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
Saint Clement, Ohrid, Macedonia
Mosaics, Pella, Greece
June 2012
"Jupiter" of the Central Pacific at the "Golden Spike"
July 2012
"Mailjumper" delivering mail by boat to mansion on Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
August 2012
Bryce Canyon quilt
Wisconsin Public Television, Quilt Expo, Dane County Exhibition Hall
September 2012
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Austin, Texas
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
December 2012
2011
Dome of the Rock
February 2011
Mobile Bay, 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
market in Santiago de Atitlán, Guatemala
More Photos of Santiago de Atitlán
Sunrise over Tikal, Guatemala
Mask Temple, Lamanai, Belize
June 2011
Louis Sullivan's Jewel Box,
Grinnell, Iowa
July 2011
Doors of Dublin
Adare, Ireland
Giants Causeway, Northern Ireland
More Photos of Northern Ireland
Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
August 2011
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
September 2011
Nashville
November 2011
Chicago's Christkindlmarket
December 2011
2010
Timor-Leste flag
Presidential Palace, Timor-Leste
March 2010
Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
Parliament House, Darwin
Church of Tuvalu
Virginia State Capitol
April 2010
Staten Island ferry passing
Governor's Island
New York City
May 2010
Budweiser Brewery
St Louis
"Lee", a Clydesdale horse
for pulling the Budweiser Beer wagon
June 2010
4th of July Fireworks at Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA
July 2010
City of Rocks, Idaho
August 2010
Buffalo, New York, City Hall
September 2010
Longwood Gardens
More Photos of Longwood Gardens
October 2010
Branson, Missouri
November 2010
Jamestown, Accra, Ghana
Togo
Benin
Cameroon
Principe
Coffee estate on Sao Tome
More Photos of Sao Tome & Principe
Gabon
Republic of the Congo
More Photos of Congo-Brazzaville
Swakopmund, Namibia
December 2010
2009
Maori show
January 2009
Joshua Tree National Park
Photos of Joshua Tree National Park
February 2009
South Beach, Miami
Great Camp Sagamore, Adirondacks, New Yorkrk
May 2009
Golden Nugget, Las Vegas
June 2009
Villa Philbrook, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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
September 2009
Portland, Oregon
October 2009
Panama Canal
November 2009
colonial architecture in Cartagena
More Photos of Cartagena, Colombia
December 2009
2008
train station in Maputo, Mozambique
African theme fabrics at a market in Swaziland
Bourke's Luck Potholes, South Africa
January 2008
highlands of Lesotho
February 2008
White Sands, New Mexico
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona
March 2008
Capelinhos Vulcano, Faial Island, Azores.
April 2008
Lisbon Cathedral, built after 1147 over the remnants of the mosque of the Islamic period.
May 2008
Toronto
June 2008
Finnish Homestead in the Upper Peninsula, Michigan
July 2008
State House in Lansing, Michigan
More Photos of Lansing Michigan
Cuneo Mansion, Lake County, Illinois
August 2008
Ribe Cathedral (Ribe Domkirke), 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
2007
Guard at Presidential Palace in Dakar
January 2007
Presenter at Juffure ("Roots" Village)
February 2007
William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
More Photos of the Clinton Presidential Library
March 2007
Porta Nigra, Trier, Germany
square and cathedral, Luxembourg
cathedral interior, St. Gallen, Switzerland
April 2007
spires of the Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain
street below the castle, Liechtenstein
May 2007
on the Bay of Fundy
More Photos of New Brunswick Canada
Cog Railroad to the top of Mount Washington
June 2007
Milwaukee Museum of Art
More Photos of the Milwaukee Museum of Art
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
September 2007
Morocco and the Sahara
October 2007
Hunsecker Mill Covered Bridge, Lancaster County
Covered Bridges in Pennsylvania
November 2007
2006
Jalisco dance
More Photos of Guadalajara, Mexico
March 2006
Palace of the Winds, Jaipur, India
April 2006
Chase County Courthouse, Cottonwood Falls. Kansas
May 2006
St. David's Cathedral, 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
September 2006
Budva, Montenegro
Photos of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro
October 2006
City Hall, Philadelphia
November 2006
Maison Pfister, Colmar, France
Photos of Alpine Christmas markets
December 2006
2005
Cheops pyramid at Giza, Egypt
February 2005
Castle in Kanazawa, 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
June 2005
aboard the m/s Juno traveling through the Göta canal, Sweden
July 2005
Cumberland Falls
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
November 2005
Roman mosaics from
a rich Roman's villa (Diocletian period 286 - 305 AD)
Piazza Armerina, Sicily
December 2005
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
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
2003
April 2003
North Western North America
June 2003
Colonial and Revolutionary Virginia
Jamestown/Williamsburg/Yorktown
Wren building, William and Mary College
Elderhostel program at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia
August 2003
bridge in Avignon
September 2003
Chile
San Rafael glacier
Elderhostel program on the Mapuche and the Fjord lands of Chile
November 2003
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
an early colonial Moravian settlement
More Photos of an Elderhostel program in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
December 2003
2002
April 2002
"Down East", Maine and Campobello Island, New Brunswick
June 2002
Grand European Highlights by Train
July 2002
August 2002
October 2002
2001
January 2001
January 2001
Parts of the Former Soviet Union
Kaliningrad, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Moldova
April - May 2001
Elderhostel in San Diego, California
June 2001
Great Rivers of Europe
Austria, Germany, Holland, Belgium
June - July 2001
Czech Festival in Wilber, Nebraska
August 2001
In Search of the Source of the Nile
Zanzibar, Tanzania, Uganda
by Dhow from Zanzibar to the African Continent
to map the vast spaces
September 2001
learned of American Civil War and the Indian Territories
Elderhostel at Kerr Mansion, Poteau, Oklahoma
October 2001
The Van Gogh/Gauguin exhibit at the Art Institute
November 2001
theater tour to New York City
November 2001