What's Up Doc?
Anyone who knows me, knows I love to travel. These are some of the highlights along with occasional other items worth noting.
2018
Anyone who knows me knows I love to walk in the woods. Here's what it's like in April in Mt. Airy Forest. For Spring Break 2018, I decided I was going to go through and post some pictures immediately, since I still haven't compiled some previous trips. So here is the album.
My big summer trip this year was to Jordan and Greece. I list them in that order because I've been yearning to go to Jordan for more than a decade, but it never seemed to fit in with any other destinations, so this time I made it my prime destination. And yes, pictures are forthcoming (but I'm close on this one...).
The Treasury and phenomenal rock formations, Petra; The Dead Sea, The Acropolis, Peloponnese theater
2017
Believe me, I know how fortunate I am that I get to trek around the world. This summer it was back to southern Africa. Via Johannesburg, I headed for Madagascar, inspired by the wildlife and nature from my time in Borneo. What a phenomenal place to visit. I followed that up with a week on neighboring Mauritius, which is an island paradise. And of course these pictures are also in queue to be put into an album.
Lemur Island and Grand Tsignsy, Madagasar 2016 I headed back to Southeast Asia for an
amazing time on Borneo and Bali, with city time in Hong Kong (not SE Asia, but
it was a good transfer point from the US) and Singapore. And sounding again like
a broken record, I have yet to organize an album. Orangutan, pygmy elephants, sun bear, and a Balinese cooking class 2015 I got to spend a month in Italy, hiking
across Cinque Terre and along the Amalfi Coast, a visit to Sardinia, and cultural immersion
in Rome and Tuscany. Oh yes, I have loads of lovely photos, but they haven't
make it into an album yet. The Colosseum, Riomaggiore in Cinque Terre, and Sardinia 2014 I spent most of June in southern Africa,
getting to see all sorts of things I'd never seen before. It was quite an
experience. I actually went through the pictures and put them into
an album soon after I got
home, which was pretty impressive, since I have yet to go through the Ghana ones.
Here are the links:
Birds,
Animals, reptiles, & insects,
General photos, and
Scenery. 2013 I spent spring break in London and Bath
with my mom, which was fun but unusually cold. In November, I went on a Fair
Trade tour of Ghana. I have yet to go through those pictures, mostly because it
was during the semester, but I hope to get to them sometime before my next trip
in 2015... 2012
Things were busy this year, so I only ended up
taking a short trip to Peru. Since professionals take much better pictures of
the Incan ruins, I only chose a few of my favorite places to highlight in
the album. 2011
In addition to going to a
conference in Seattle with my favorite person, where we were able to take time
out from the conference to go to the Seattle Art Museum, I got to go to Cambodia and
Thailand for a few weeks, the highlights of which I put into
an album. And here's
another one, but there are some duplicates (years later, when I had to
update the links from Picasa to Google, I have no idea why...)
This
summer I went to a conference in Porto, Portugal, before which I spent a few
weeks touring Turkey. Every stop in Turkey was worthwhile. Really. I thought I'd
hate Istanbul because I'm not a city person, but it was really quite excellent.
Portugal was also nice and I got to see a lot of the surrounding areas of Lisbon
and Porto. Here is
the album
I put together. 2010
I got to go to
Central Europe for a
few weeks, where I visited the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, and
Poland. My favorites places/sites/sights were the Astronomical Clock in Prague; Cesky Krumlov, Czech Rep; the Bellvedere Museum with the Klimt paintings in
Vienna; the High Tatra Mts. in Slovakia; and Wielichzka Salt Mine in Poland.
While in Krakow, a former student who was studying at Jagiellonian University
spent a few days showing me the highlights.
2009
I took a trek through through
Morocco, followed by a visit to
Barcelona and
Paris. In addition to the general Morocco pics, I have more of
people,
scenery,
flowers,
dogs,
architecture,
tile,
sculptures, and
me. 
