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.

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.

After attending my sister-in-law's wedding in Marin County above San Francisco we took a North drive into the Napa wine country and visited the cellar of this winery.

Sailing around the British Virgin Islands (BVI) is my
 all time favorite way to totally relax and enjoy the adventures and sites.
  This was the view hiking across from our anchorage at Little Yost Van Dyke

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

Snorking in the BVI is always a highlight.

Especially when you spot a Leather Back Turtle
and try your best to keep up with him.

While installing 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 them immensely.

An extended family in the sacred park in Ubud 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 circular stairwell to the top

we visited Cozumel Mexico to do some diving in the summer.
We caught a ferry to Tulum and this was the view from our B&B bedroom.

I took an early morning walk on the beach and this Osprey began to hover overhead.

He suddenly went into a dive.

Collapsed his wings

Smashed into the water

And took off with a fish in his talons.  I was shaking with awe.

We toured through Thailand in January 2006. 
There are more Buddha statues in Thailand than any place in the world.
But I never get tired of seeing them.

This Buddha in particular, in the temple ruins of Ayuthaya was very special

After trekking in the Northern - Golden Triangle of Thailand,
we spent the night in this Burmese Karen refugee village

Early the next morning this was the scene as a motor-bike
 delivered fresh vegetables that were then sold to the villagers

The next morning this hen was protecting her young
 while we sat around the fire cooking some breakfast.

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

You can run into Monkey's anywhere in Thailand.  Even on Krabi.

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

If you visit Peru you have to view Machu Picchu from the Inca Trail.
 And take time to climb Hachu Pichu behind it.

This is the stone work of the entrance gate to Machu Pichu.

The stone work of the Inca's was amazing.  This is from the sun temple in Ollantaytambo, in the Sacred Valley Between Machu Picchu and Cuzco

We were visiting a family friend, Evan & Patty who were living in Ayacucho, Peru.   Evan & Patty took us up into the mountains.
  The Peruvian girls wear the most lovely colorful outfits.

 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.

Back in Pennsylvania we get the deafening noise of cicada's
 who come out of the ground every 17 years!

One of my big home projects was to build a frog pond
 next to the walkway to the house

This is a lotus flower I raised in the frog pond.  It lasts only three days.

When the Lotus Flower dries, it turns into this wonderful colorful sculpture.

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 is the entrance to Wormslo Gardens next to my brothers house.

A visit to Bonaventura Cemetery in Savannah is not to be missed.

Not far from Savannah we were able to kayak to Tybee Island
 and walk the island beach

Sherry, the boys and myself chartered a sailboat in St. Vincent in the Grenadines.
I photographed this gorgeous English boat anchored next to us at sun set.
Then stay up all night on anchor watch as the wind threatened to drag our anchor.
See complete photo journey of Grenadine Sailing

I had a job to do in Grants New Mexico.  Sherry & I really enjoyed the wonderful geology of Acoma, El Moro.  Further west is a hiking trail called Red Rocks.

It's hard to get perspective on such scenes until you realize the tiny dots at the bottom are other hikers.

We headed North from there across the Western landscape.

One of the stops was the slot canyon "Little Wild Horse".
 A few months before, my son Jeremy had to make a fast re-treat
out of this canyon as it began to fill up from a flash flood.

Hiking in and out of this narrow canyon is like being in another world

Not far away is Monument National Park.

It's easy to understand why its called Monument.

North of Monument is Arches National Park and the famous Balancing Rock

And if you travel farter North you end up in Salt Lake City.
Jeremy took this picture on Antelope Island, in the middle of the Great Salt Lake.

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

This was a wonderful walk on Bromidon Beach in the Bay of Fundy

Sherry & I were invited to a wedding in Southern France.  Our first stop was Barcelona where we 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 his chimneys on the roof of Pedrera house

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

After a radon conference in Las Vegas, Sherry & I took off
to catch some hiking among the hoodoos in Bryce Canyon, Utah

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

We have a good friend who lives in a mountain town in Southern India.
  The 1st thing you realize is honking your horn is the only rule of the road

  It was a four hour drive to her village.
 We stopped for some tea and this woman was washing behind the store

By our standards the masses of Indian are very poor but they always have a smile

These were the Chinese fishing nets still used in Fort Kochi, India
They are dropped in the water and then raised up with counter balanced stones.

Here's a typical Fort Kochi family

We stopped along the road in Kerala to check out this family run brick farm
and the owner brought his whole family out to meet us.  The kiln is under the thatch roof.

These are his bricks.

In Varkala, India, the locals work as a team - fishing with a large net right off the beach

Once the nets are in place they pound the water with their fists
 to scar off these Eagles who want to steal their catch

Everyone helps drag in the heavy nets

The whole net gets pulled up on the beach

The catch is flipped into the center.

Now they start bidding on who gets what and how much is it worth.

We visited a traditional Ayurvedic Clinic in Derisanmacope, India
This was a side street.

This was the local priest in the Derisanmacope village.

A couple of Indian woman washing their clothes in the river

I had another job in New Mexico.  This time after the job we toured around
 Sedona in Arizona, the Painted Desert, the Petrified Forest and the Grand Canyon.
Just outside Sedona is a beautiful hike through West Fork Canyon

We started the West Fork canyon Hike late in the day.
I caught this silhouette of Sherry on the water

We left Sedona early one morning
 to make it to the Grand Canyon and started hiking down the Kalib Trail

There had been a lot of rain that year and the vegetation
 and the morning light, created this incredible watercolor vista in the Canyon

I've never seen anything quite like it.

My sister lives next to Silver River in Central Florida.
We rented some canoes to paddle up the crystal clear water.

Along the way there were turtles sunning themselves and herons.
There were signs that swimming was not allowed which I decided to abide by.

Jeremy and Havilah had their wedding in Crested Butte, Colorado.  You fly into Denver and then make the 4 hour drive through Cottonwood Pass to get there.

There is a short cut into Crested Butte on Jack's Cabin Road.  It was late afternoon.  The sunset light turned this mountain field into a perfect landscape

Above Crested Butte is Kepler Pass.
 You drive through groves of dense Aspen forests.

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 us in Quakertown, PA, as a reminder that,
 our strength and connectedness comes from what we don't see.