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Bill's Travel Photos
Every year I try and get away for a week or two.
It makes you appreciate not only
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.
As we were driving south of Florence
One of the oldest museums in the world is in Florence.
Impruneta Italy is renown for their highly detailed handmade pottery.
This is
Hupato Beach at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam. We were
installing
In 2001 we vacationed in Belize.
We took a side trip into Guatemala from Belize to see the ruins of Tikal.
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
In the summer of 2004 we visited Cozumel and Tulum
Mexico.
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
The only way to get to the beaches and rock climbing cliffs of Thailand in the peninsula of Railay outside of Krabi is to take a long boat taxi.
If your are not into rock climbing, scuba diving or kayaking you can just hang out on the beach.
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,
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.
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. I hope the photos inspire you to travel and take your own shots. If you feel like it - Send me a comment:wmbrodhead at gmail.com
Do it anyway sayings of Kent
Keith
People are illogical, unreasonable, and
self-centered
If you are successful, you will
win false friends and true enemies
The good you do today will be
forgotten tomorrow
Honesty and frankness make you
vulnerable
What you spend years building
may be destroyed overnight
Give the world the best you
have and you'll get kicked in the teeth
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