Travel Tips

1975 Born in North Dakota
1976 First camping trip, in Canada!
1977 Move to Colorado Springs, CO
1979 Move to Athens, Greece
1979-1981 Various trips around Greece
1981 Move to Utah (Ogden area)
1981-1983 Camping trips throughout Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada including all the National Parks, first trip to Yellowstone NP
1984 Move to Sacramento, CA
1984-1988 Various trips through California including Lake Shasta, Yosemite, SF and Disneyland!
1988 Cross country road trip - moving to Dayton, Ohio!
1989-1993 Trips to Alabama, Michigan, Ocean City - Maryland, Great Smoky Mountains, Mammoth Caves NP, Nashville, and many summer and christmas trips to Kansas!

1993 Nebraska, Oklahoma, Miami - Florida and then Ecuador!
1993-1994 Various places in Ecuador including every Sierra province, every costal province (except Esmeraldas), Succumbios in the Oriente, and Galapagos Islands, Colombia
1994 Return home to Kansas, trip to Ohio, start school in Oklahoma
1995 January term in Ecuador (including trip to Peru), Summer - camping in Colorado, visit to Royal Gorge
1996 Summer in Europe With my family: England (London, Stonehenge), Scotland (Edinburgh and surroundings), France (Paris, Versailles), Belgium (Bruxelles), Netherlands (Amsterdam), Germany (Berlin, Neueschwanstein castle), Italy (Venice, Florence, Almalfi coast), Spain (Barcelona, Figuras, Rosas), Germany (Kaiserslautern), Luxembourg. With my friend Margaret: France (Paris - again!), Italy (Rome), Austria (Salzburg, Vienna), Denmark (Arhus), Netherlands (Amsterdam - again!), Germany (various small towns), Czech Republic (Prague), Switzerland (Grindelwald, Interlaken).
US Road trip: Wichita, KS to San Francisco with a stop in Colorado. Hiking in Yosemite, drive to Portland, OR, Seattle, WA (Visit Mt. Reiner), through Idaho (visit a friend in Burley), Las Vegas, through New Mexico (Petrified forest NP) and back.
Thanksgiving (November) - Road trip from Shawnee, OK to Columbia, SC. Trip to Charleston, SC
1997 - Summer: Europe: Spain (1 month in Altea, visits to Guadalest, Alicante, Madrid, Lisbon - Portugal, and Granada), France (Paris - 3rd time!), Germany (Mainz, Kaiserslautern), Scandinavian Road trip with stops in Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Stavanger (Norway).
Road trip to Ohio for my friend's wedding.
South America: Bolivia (Santa Cruz), Peru (Lima), and Ecuador (Quito).
Head off to Japan! Trips to Kyoto, Nara, and Tokyo.
1998 Still in Japan, two week trip to Australia (Sydney, Bundanoon)
May 1998 Graduate from OBU!

June 1998 Ontario Canada
August 1998 3 week trip to Guatemala and Honduras
September 1998 4 day trip to Burlington, ONT Canada
May-July 1999 2 month stay in Jena, Germany. Trips to Dresden, Berlin, Munich, Goslar, Lengries, Cologne, Nuremburg and 1 week in Noordwejk, Netherlands
August 1999 Road trip orginating in Burlington, ONT continuing to Gananaque and Kingston, ONT. On to Portland, Maine - Newport, RI, and Virginia.
Feb 2000 3 weeks in Burlington, ONT and then leave for Frankfurt, Germany
April 2000 3 days in Amsterdam
May 2000 5 days in Normandy, France
June 2000 5 days in Canterbury, United Kingdom
July 2000 1 week in Mykonos, Greece
August-Sept 2000 1 month in USA including Ohio, Washington DC and Kansas
Sept 2000 weekend in Rotterdam, Netherlands
December 2000 Christmas in Kansas
April 2001 week in Tunisia including Mahdia, Monastir, El Jem, and Kairoan
June 2001 3 weeks in Kansas
November 2001 Bahrain, Bangkok, Angkor Wat (5 days), Bangkok (3 days), 3 weeks in Burma including Yangon, Bagan, Kalaw, Inle Lake, Nagapali Beach, and Bago
Christmas 2001 Kansas (10 days)

February 2002 day trips to Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Tubingen, Schweinfurt
April 2002 weekend trip to Nordlingen
May 2002 3 day trip to Beajolais Wine Region - France
3 day trip to Poland (Boleslawic, Wroclaw, and Gory Stolowe National Park)
August 2002 1 week in Hungary including 1 day in Budapest.
Thanksgiving 2002 in New Concord, OH (1 week)
Maastricht (weekend trip)
Christmas in Kansas
January 2003 Barcelona, Monserrat, and Girona (5 days)
Easter 03 Helsinki and Tampere (4 days)
May 03 Luxembourg City (day trip)
May/June 03 Bavaria (Linderhof, Wieskirche, Mittenwald - 2 days)
July 03 1 week Samos Island, Greece and Ephesus, Turkey
Sept 03 1 week Ireland (Dublin, Cork, Mizen Head, Dingle Peninsula, Galway, Connemera, etc)
Dec 03 3 weeks Kansas and New Years in Louisville, Kentucky
March/April 04 Louisville - Kentucky, Mammoth Caves (2nd visit), Kansas, San Francisico (total 4 weeks)
May/June 04 3 days Malta (Gozo, Valetta, Mdina)
August 04 10 days Romania (Bucharest, Sinaia, Brasov, Sighisoara, Cluj, Turda, Suceava and the painted Bucovina Monasteries, Iasj) and Moldova (Chisinau, Orhei Vechi, and Tipova)
November 04 3 days Riga, Latvia
May/June 05 5 days Iceland
July 05 3 days London
December 05 3 weeks Kansas 5 days Louisville, Kentucky
March/April 06 10 days Republic of Georgia and Armenia
May/June 06 WEDDING in Kansas, HONEYMOON trip to South Dakota (Mt. Rushmore, Custer State Park, Badlands)
June/July 06 Working 6 weeks in Lausanne, Switzerland
July/August 06 - 3 days Pittsburgh, 2 days Columbia, SC, 5 days Delray Beach FL
October 06 weekend in Paris

1 week Delray Beach, FL with day trips to Miami, Boca Raton, and Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
1 week Sweden (Goteburg and Sunne)