Monthly Archives: July 2012 In June of 2007 I had to take a business trip to Haifa, Israel. As part of the trip I was able to take time to see various areas of the country. A fascinating country with a large variety of environments and of course both ancient and modern history of get interest and significance. First […]  Every year SAS airlines runs a special in December where they send an email each day and for that day you can buy tickets to the named city at a very special rate. The trick is you have to travel in winter! So we considered of all the places SAS flies what would be unique […]  In July of 2004 I traveled with some dear friends and one other person no-longer-to-be-named to Athens, Greece for a night and then to the islands of Kos, Leros, Lipski, Patmos and a few others aboard the 53′ sailboat Vassilis operated by Diane of Seascape Sailing. Then three days in Santorini, Greece with a final […]  In December of 2003 I traveled for a month in Southeast Asia. I visited Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia and both Bali and Sulawesi in Indonesia. With over 50 dives at various sites as well as hiking through the jungles to ancient temples, sailing the canals in Bangkok, visiting the Ton Sap floating village in Cambodia and […]  This was an amazing adventure, hiking up Mt Rainier for the first time with nothing more than a backpack. Ted Palazzolo finally convinced me it would be “good for me” and “not so bad”. Well a week later as I post these photos there’s still a lot of things that hurt but he was right, […] |
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