Life's journeys are not destinations but rather processes, acts and thoughts within and through experiences. Recently I have compiled my journey to date of building my home, of my spiritual life, and below throughout the world. My CV/resume details my formal educational journey, and my awards and media markers on the road.
I have circumnavigated the world once,
and journeyed to all of
the continents except "the cold one." I began my travels with the United
States' Peace
Corps in 1968. I was a small city boy who had not traveled
before.
In my younger days, my philosophy about travel was that I tried to study the language of an area/country before visiting, and that I visit more than "several days" in one location to get a sense of place, to know the people, that they may also get to know me.
Travel is a reciprocating experience: Selected selfies and country list
2017: Liege, Belgium; Luxembourg; Strasburg, France.
2016: Cambodia: Angkor
Region of Archeological Temples
2016: Việt Nam Capstone Vietnam
Speaking and Book Signing Tour
2015: Europe: the 3-week, 3-country tour
2014: Lake Itasca State Park, at the head of the Mississippi River
2014 Boston
2012 Europe: the 8 week, 6-country research tour
celebrating my 70 years. Timeline and selfies link to Facebook, timeline 2015.
Began in Paris, train to Lyons, train to Geneva
and Montreaux, train to Milan where I met my sister and where we
attended Design Week! Fabulous.
Selfies at my Itasca retreat at the Old Timers Cabin (1932) on a two mile nature walk,
and at the Lodge for "perch chips" and a beer.
Selfies at the Boston Museum of Fine Art
2012 Europe: the 8 week, 6-country research tour
Second stop: My ancestral hamlet Pořežánky in the Czech Republic, its
chapel, friend Rosa in a cherry tree and Čzesky Krumlov.
2012 Europe: the 8 week, 6-country research tour
Second stop: Prague and the 150 anniversary of Sokol gymnastic/cultural society.
Europe 2009: Paris, etc.
I visited my friend Andre in Paris. After a day in the Louvre, we walked
about the streets of Paris including le Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, Montmartre, and had lunch
aside Notre Dame.
Europe 2009: then Rennes et Mont San Michel
San Francisco, California 2009
Google I/O Developer Conference,
San Francisco, California May 27-28
While waiting for the Asian
Art Museum to open, I toured City Hall, as well as
waited
with a crowd for the ruling by the California Supreme Court on
Proposition 8 that invalidated future same sex marriages in
California but validated 18,000 past marriages!
Playa del Carmen,
Mexico 2008 for my niece Holly's wedding
with friends
Bill and Tim
Chichen Itza & Cenote,
with cousin Deb and her daughter Coley
2007 South Africa
14th International Learning Conference at the University of the Witwatersrand
2007 Grahamstown
South Africa National Arts Festival
The National Arts Festival is an important event on the South African cultural calendar, and the biggest annual celebration of the arts on the African continent.
It runs for 11 days in the small university (Rhodes) city of Grahamstown, which is situated in the Eastern Cape.
The Festival comprises a Main and a Fringe program, and the program comprises drama, dance, physical theatre, comedy, opera, music, jazz, visual art exhibitions, film, student theatre, street theatre, lectures, craft fair, workshops, and a children’s arts festival.
2006: Nottingham, England
the
Higher Education Academy Conference 2006, University of Nottingham. Nottingham
(Pub building--1185?--rests against Castle Rock upon which Nottingham Castle is
built, Robin Hood, and dog just sleeping)
2006: Birmingham, England--St. Martin in the
Bull Ring
2006: Dublin, Ireland
Here I am in Dublin (!) with Loretta and
Oscar Wilde in a park.
2005: Argentina March 3 - 23, 2005
The occasion of my visit to Buenos Aires and Argentina was a study program Design Intensive/DHA 5196 between the School of Design, University of
Minnesota and the School of Architecture, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
I also toured the Capital Federal, San Telmo, Recoleta, the fruit market of Tigre, the city center, tango bars & events, Puerto Madero, and stayed at my friend's house in Belgrano. I traveled by
subte
(subway), taxi, and as a passenger in my friend's car!
2005
Iguazu Falls, Misiones Jesuíticas, Colonia March 3 - 23, 2005
I
flew to Iguazu to wander the town and tremendous falls (better
than Niagra!and
toured the Misiones Jesuíticas a world heritage site. Then
I
took the Buquebus across the Río de la Plata/River Plate, a rather strange name for what is translated in Spanish as the River of Silver
In Uruguay.
2005: Montevideo & Colonia, Uruguay
I toured Montevideo that got its name from Hill/Monte + Number Six/VI + deo (deo = from east to west, a sailing direction)
and
dropped down to Colonia, another world heritage site.
2003:
Italy: Rome, Tuscany, L'Aquila
L'Aquila and the SSGRR Conference
2001 Pipestone Minnesota
An excursion into Southwest Minnesota and Native American territory.
A composite of historic Pipestone buildings featuring
Sioux quartzite quarried in the area
1999: Beijing, China,
November 16 - 30, 1999
Eleven montages of photos visiting
friends, a local park, temples, palaces, Tiananmen Square, the summer
palace, the Peking Opera, Peking University, the University of
International Business and Economics (my hosts), the Great Wall.
The series of seven montages of photos were taken with a digital camera on my trip to Beijing November 1999. I went both for my "summer" vacation as well as to pursue two projects. I furthered work on the Chinese translations of "Study Guides" and continued research on Gypsy/Roma immigration into China in the 12th Century, about the same time they emigrated out of northwestern India into Eastern Europe.
Park | Friends | Beijing Opera | Great Wall | Tiananmen | Temple 1 | Temple 2 | Temple 3 | Summer palace | Me in Beijing
October 24-30, 1999: Hawaii
Collage of photos
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education's WebNet 99 -
World Conference on the WWW and Internet.
1999: Playa del Carmen, Yucatan Mexico
Just a "spring" break with an old high school
friend.
1987/88: Circumnavigating the world
Hawaii, Figi,
New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, London
1987: Jamaica, Peru, Brazil
Summer 1978: England and Wales
A trip with an old high school friend and my first
trip since returning from a stint in the Peace Corps in West Africa. We
met in London, but then I proceeded to Cardiff and a walking tour through Wales
witnessing a sheep auction in Welshpool.
1968- 71: Peace Corps, Sub-Saharan Africa
As a 23 year-old informal conscientious objector to the war in Vietnam, I volunteered for service with the Peace Corps. It was said that the mortality rate was higher for volunteers, including Terry of my Togo team, than for soldiers in Vietnam.
I taught at a middle school in Soutouboua, Togo
1968- 71: Facebook series: Togo, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire,
Burkina Faso (La Haute-Volta), Mali, Niger, Benin (Dahomey): Volunteer
with le Corps de la Paix Américain/American Peace Corps .