Every year we visit Highlands, North Carolina.  One morning the sun was streaming in through the trees and I captured this photo

My wife's grandparents came from the small village of Grottaminarda in Italy.  We bought some cheese and dried peppers from this local shop in the Fall of 2000.

We took a side trip into Guatemala from Belize to see the ruins of Tikal.
 Nearby Flores is surrounded by a lake where they still use water taxis

I got a chance to do some hiking above Lake Tahoe before a radon conference in 2002 and caught this picture on the way back to the conference.

We made a mad dash across this beach in Marino Bellino, Costa Rica before the rain set in.  Costa Rica is a wonderful place to visit to see lots of wildlife

This chameleon caught my eye in the summer of 2003 as I was taking
 a morning hike on Norman Island in the British Virgin Islands.

In the summer of 2004 we visited Cozumel and Tulum Mexico.
We had this lovely sunset while ordering dinner after a day of scuba diving.

While installing 24 radon mitigation systems at Kadena Air Force Base in Okinawa, I was able to scuba with this 28 foot whale shark.  Unfortunately he was held in captivity but it was an incredible experience being so close to this gentle creature.

All across Bali you see women and men carrying objects balanced on their heads.  The people of Bali are so friendly, religious, creative and hard working.

The Barong dancers of Ubud in Bali are world re-known and so special that we went to three different performances and enjoyed all of them immensely.

In Ubud there is a sacred park where the monkeys run free.

I was able to ride in the back of a truck through the San Diego Wildlife Park and captured this lovely rothschild giraffe whose native home is Kenya

The light house above San Diego has a marvelous stairwell to the top

This live Indonesian cobra displayed his beautiful back during a snake show at the Okinawa World village

We toured through Thailand in January 2006.  In Sukhothai we rented mopeds and drove through the countryside.  These lovely Thai kids waved and smiled at us.

In the market place of Mae Sot, this Burmese refugee girl struck a regal pose.  I forgot to ask our hotel owner why the Burmese colored their faces this way.

In the temple ruins of Ayuthaya, Thailand there is this wonderful Buddha

Watching the longboats leave at sunset from the beach is pure magic

The aerial contortion in silk at the Cirque du Soleil.  We treated ourselves to the most awesome artistic musical enjoyable performance in Philadelphia.    www.cirquedusoleil.com

We were visiting a friend, Evan and his Peruvian wife Patty, who live in Ayacucho, Peru.   Evan & Patty took us up into the mountains.  The Peruvian girls wear the most lovely colorful outfits.         Evan's paintings of Peru.

 We spent the night in a small mountain village.  These colorfully dressed girls on the way to school were more curious about me than I was with them.

This is the same girls walking off to school.   Amazing huh.

This woman wearing a traditional Peruvian hat was napping in the doorway as we came down from the mountain village.

Of course if you visit Peru you have to view Machu Pichu from the Inca Trail but plan on spending time in the Sacred valley and Cusco.

My brother, Peter, runs Brighter Day health food store which is across from this fountain in Forsyth Park, Savannah, Ga.  What a great town to walk in.

This graveside statuary is one of many in Bonaventura Cemetery in Savannah.

After working in Grants New Mexico, Sherry & I really enjoyed the wonderful geology of Acoma, El Moro and this incredible hike into Canyon du Chelly in Arizona.

At the bottom of the trail were two ancient elders embedded in the rock,
keeping watch of the 800 year old cliff dwellings below them.

Sherry, the boys and myself chartered a sailboat in St. Vincent in the Grenadines and of course picked Bequia as our favorite island.  I spent one nite on deck doing an anchor watch as the wind shifted around.  All night long I watched this gorgeous English boat anchored next to us that I had photograhed at sun set.
See complete photo journey of Grenadine Sailing

After teaching a school mitigation class in Halifax, Nova Scotia we toured a Mexican tall ship in the harbor.  Halifax is a wonderful town to stroll through.

From Halifax we rented a car & stayed at a B&B with a view of the light house on Peggy's Cove.

We drove across the peninsula to hike out on an over look of the Bay of Fundy and catch a glimpse of the highest tides in the world

We attended the most magical wedding of two friends in this 12th century Urval church in the Dordogne region of France with the blessing of the local town friar.

On our way back to Barcelona we spent the night in Albi
and had wonderful dinner on the Tarn river

Sherry & I fell in love with all of Gaudi's work.  From about 1900 until his death in 1926 his spectacular organic architecture completely revolutionized Barcelona's architecture.   These are the chimneys of the Pedrera house he designed.

This year (2008) the annual radon conference was in Las Vegas,  Sherry & I found the most spectacular Vegas get away by hiking among the hoodoos in Byrce Canyon, Utah

Not far from Byrce Canyon is Zion Park.  Another must see location in Utah.

On September 11, 2001 the collapsing World Trade Center knocked over a century old sycamore tree in St. Paul's Chapel courtyard.  The roots of this tree were painstakingly preserved in bronze by Steve Tobin, a world famous sculptor who lives near by in Quakertown, PA, as a reminder that our strength and connectedness comes from what we don't see.