Last modified on 03/26/18
Quote of the day: "The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin,
beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing
that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may
lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your
only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or
know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one
thing for it then--to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it.
That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate,
never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.
Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to
learn."
--T. H. White,
The Once and Future King
Actually I'm something of a homebody--I don't have an intense
wanderlust to see the far corners of the world (did you know that
philosopher
Immanuel Kant never left his hometown?). However, despite my
tendency to hang out at home, I've managed to visit many places
(I'm not including anything in the northeast U.S. which I'm considering
my "home turf"):
- Canada: Montreal (1967) [World's Fair]
- Texas: Witchita Falls (1976)
- Ohio: Athens (1980)
- California: San Francisco (1983)
- Virginia: Blacksburg (1983)
- Canada: Rideau Lake (1983)
- 1986 Carribean Trip [photographing Halley's Comet]
- Virginia: somewhere near the NC border (1986) [photographing Halley's Comet]
- 1987 Solo Bike Ride to North Carolina
North Carolina: Cape Hatteras
- California: Los Angeles (1988)
- Georgia: Atlanta (1990)
- 1991 Western U.S. Trip
- Colorado: Denver, Gunnison
- California: San Jose, Yosemite
- Mexico: Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, Cabo San Lucas (1991)
- Ohio: Columbus (1994)
- North Carolina: Great Smoky Mountains National Park (1993) [70 mile hike of the Appalachian Trail]
- Japan: Osaka, Tokyo, Tsukuba (1996)
- Japan: Tsukuba, Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka (1997) [NSF Summer Program in Japan]
- 1997 Europe Trip
- 1998 Europe Trip
- Belgium: Leuven (1998)
- Holland: Amsterdam (1998)
- Canada: Victoria (1998)
- Japan: Tokyo, Takamatsu (2000)
- 2001 Asia Trip
- South Korea: Seoul
- Japan: Tsukuba, Tokyo
- Japan: Tsukuba, Sendai, Tokyo (2004)
- Spain: Barcelona (2005)
- Canada: Montreal (2005)
- Mexico: Mexico City, Tulum (2006)
- 2007 Western US Photography Trip
- Colorado
- Utah
- California
- Nevada
- Wyoming
- South Dakota
- 2009 New England Photography Trip
- Massachusetts
- Maine
- New Hampshire