Travel

We started traveling in 1968, the year after we got married.
The very best was Tanzania in 2006.

January, 2014

Rio de Janeiro to Miami with a week in the Amazon with Regent Seven Seas - Mariner: Rio de Janeiro, Salvador de Bahia, Fortaleza (missed), Alter Do Chao, Boca Da Valeria, Manaus, Parintins, Santarem, Devil's Island (missed), Bridgetown (Barbados), Gustavia (St. Bart's), San Juan (Puerto Rico), Miami.

Interesting trip but too many days at sea, too little time on land. Skipping two stops didn't help. The ship rescued two men in a small, open boat one night in the Caribbean.

August- September, 2012

Baltic Cruise with Regent on the Seven Seas Voyager
Very, very pleasant trip. Good weather. Stockholm, Helsinki, St. Petersburg, Tallinn, Riga, Visby, Berlin, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Bruges (see picture, right), ending at Heathrow.

September, 2011

Yellowstone & the Grand Tetons - Off the Beaten Path / National Geographic
Weather was superb, finally saw Old Faithful and Mammoth Hot Springs, moose, bison, elk, and much more. Wonderful week with Kurt Westenbarger and Eve Wills.

July-August, 2010

Alaska (Tauck #18)
Great weather, Awesome day at Denali: This grizzley with two cubs came up the hill next to the bus.

January, 2010

Southern Latin America (Tauck #17)
Magnificent scenery from Chili through Argentina to Rio; few animals; boats, planes and busses; Jim got pneumonia.

Iguazu Falls from the Brazilian side.

December, 2008 - January 2009

Australia - New Zealand (Tauck #16)
Tauck, land and sea (Diamond Princess) WONDERFUL trip, New Year's Eve party with Sydney fireworks, an exceptionally wide variety of activities.

June, 2007
Amsterdam-Budapest (Tauck #15)
Tauck's Swiss Emerald on the Rhine, Main, Main-Danube Canal, and Danube. Our 40th Anniversary.

September - October, 2006 Tanzania (Tauck #14)
Best Trip Ever! Photo Gallery
We started at Kilimanjaro International Airport in Arusha, staying at Serena Mountain Village, overlooking Lake Duluti. It was late September, just before the short rains. Grass is dry and there is dust, but the animals are not hidden. Travel was by 6-passenger land cruisers to Tarangire National Park, to see wildebeest, zebras, giraffes, elephants, antelope, impala, dik-diks, and cape buffalo.
Back into the landcruisers, standing on the seats for good views to Lake Manyara National Park for gazelles, waterbucks, lions and more.
A walk through Mto wa Mbu included visiting a home and school. Then to the Ngorongoro Ngorongoro Crater where the lodge was on the dormant volcano's rim. The rhino and a cheetah were too far away to see, but there were herds of zebra, wildebeest, and gazelles.
We stopped at a Masai village before going to Oldupai (Olduvai) Gorge, then took the rough dirt roads across the plains to the Western Serengeti. There was a hot-air balloon flight at dawn over the Serengeti grasslands. In the afternoon game drive there were wildebeests, zebras, giraffes, monkeys, baboons, hyenas at a week-old carcass, a leopard, elephants, hippos, cape buffalos, jackals, gazelles and prides of lions.
A drive across grasslands took us to luxurious Kirawira Tented Camp, two more gorgeous days of game drives, and then home.

February - March, 2006
Peru and Galapagos (Tauck #13)

Machu Picchu, Galapagos Islands
Absolutely marvelous trip. Awesome!

October, 2005
Wine Country / Cruise -- Univ. of Iowa / Intrav

Napa Wineries, Copia, Culinary Inst. of Amer., Sausalito and San Francisco. The Napa Valley balloon ride was great.

February, 2005
Panama Canal and Costa Rica - (Tauck #12)

Panama City, across to Colon to board Le Levant. Visit San Blas Islands, traverse the canal(Miraflores locks on left), dugouts to the village of Mogue in Darien Province, Coiba Island, Bahia Paraiso, disembark at Caldera. Stop at Sarchi and Café Britt on the way to San José. Visit the volcano Irazú, and the LaPaz waterfall, butterfly and hummingbird gardens.

June, 2004
Colorado National Parks (Tauck #11)

Denver, the "Garden of the Gods" by Pikes Peak to Colorado Springs. Then Royal Gorge, suspension bridge above the Arkansas River, Salida, Poncha Pass, the San Luis Valley, cross the Continental Divide to Durango. Mesa Verde National Park and David Nighteagle on the flute. A narrow gauge railroad from Durango to Silverton, the million-dollar highway over Red Mountain Pass through the canyons of Colorado National Monument to Grand Junction. Aspen for lunch, then to to Vail. Rocky Mountain National Park, the Continental Divide to Denver.

October, 2003
Portugal and Spain - (Tauck #10)

Started in Lisbon, went through southern Portugal to Quinta do Lago, then Seville, Ronda, Gibralter, Costa del Sol, Granada, Cordoba, Toledo, among other places, ending in Madrid. One of the best groups we've ever been with, Joe was a great guide

May, 2003
Canyonlands - (Tauck #9)

Canyonlands: Scottsdale, Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Bryce, Zion. Finally saw more of the homeland, finally can travel other seasons than summer. Retirement is Good!!

2002 - Summer
Ontario and Quebec (Tauck #8)

Eastern Canada including Montreal, Quebec, Ottawa, Toronto, and Niagara Falls.

2001 - Summer
San Francisco to Seattle (Tauck #7)

Whale-watching was good. The Amtrak train does not run on time.

2000 - Summer France (Tauck World Discovery #6)

Nice to Paris in two weeks with Kathleen from the Alaska trip. Monaco, Avignon, Carcasonne, Arles, Rouen, chateaux. No pictures from this trip. France can be almost perfect.

1998 - Summer (Tauck #5)
Alps - Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Italy

Beautiful!

1996 Summer (Tauck #4)
Alaska

Two weeks with Kathleen who had worked on the north shore for a while. Anchorage and Sitka were very good, the tiny airplanes were not good. Jim flew to the north shore but I learned to pan for gold that day instead. Denali's grizzlies and other animals, near and far, were spectacular.

1995 Summer Scandinavia (Tauck #3)

Trains, boats, busses and beautiful weather for two weeks. We particularly enjoyed the Vasa museum and Greig's house.

1992 Summer
Canadian Rockies (Tauck #2)

The tour included Lake Louise (left), Calgary, a train through the mountains, a small glacier, and some elk.

1991 Summer
Paris & England (Tauck #1)

Southern England after 5 days in Paris on our own and hydrofoil across the channel. This was our first Tauck tour, chosen when American Express cancelled a tour we had booked. Bath was particularly nice.

1990 Summer Los Angeles

Days only, UCLA class/tour with Jody Greenwald, "Art and Architecture of Los Angeles." Great lunches, fascinating houses.

1988 Summer Italy

American Express "Art Connoisseur" tour, then rented a car and drove north to Lake Como for a few days.

1983 Summer France

UCLA class/tour led by Jody Greenwald of their Interior Design dept., "Art and Architecture, Renaissance to Present." Three great weeks. (History teachers get to take the best classes, required to maintain credentials.)

1980 Summer
China

Three week Japan Airlines Tour, started in Tokyo for 2 days, then Beijing, Manchuria, Shanghai, Canton, Hong Kong. Loved the pandas, the reindeer, and the Wall. One of the group had emergency major surgery in Beijing with acupuncture for anesthetic.

1978 Summer Central Atlantic States

"Colonial Middle Atlantic" class, then rented a car, drove to North Carolina and Virgina coastal areas. Myrtle Beach had changed a lot in 15 years.

1977 Summer
Greece, the Aegean, Turkey

Three week American Express tour included Athens, Delphi, an Aegean cruise to Crete and Rhodes, stops on the Turkish coast and Constantinople.

1975 - Summer New England states

"Colonial New England" class, then drove to Schenectady and Scotia to visit Judy's home town, then the Maine coast to Bar Harbor, New Hampshire and Vermont.

1972 Summer
Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union

Univ. of Pacific class. Six weeks from London to Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Soviet Union (where we were very aware of the KGB watching us) including Georgia, and Ukraine. Then Hungary (Budapest on the left), returned via Paris (culture shock after being in the Soviet Block).

1970 - Summer San Francisco, Oregon, Washington A drive north, mostly along the coast.

1968 Travel begins with a wonderful Summer
England, France, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Austria, West Germany,Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands.

We picked up a TR250 in London and toured about 8,000 miles in 9 weeks. Then we drove it into a gas station in Amsterdam, and picked it up at the port in Los Angeles a few weeks later. It had no radio and no air conditioning, but was great to drive. We later drove it to NYC and to Seattle. It kept its oil leak for the entire 17 years we owned it.

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