Welcome to our not-so-brand-spankin'-new, vanity, web site where we intend to post details of our trips to exotic places around the world. Since we're really slow in developing this the way we want to, we'll just post a few photos of places we've been in the last couple of years to whet the appetite.....

Recent additions:

A slide show of Classic Car photos from our 2012 People-to-People photo workshop in Cuba: Classic Cars of Havana, Cuba. Our trip was arranged by Travel Photographer, Ralph Velasco.

La Maravilla is a building on a square in Old Havana. The building is fascinating and there were always interesting things happening around it. Here are some of my favorite shots of La Maravilla and the happenings nearby: In and around La Maravilla Havana, Cuba. Our trip was arranged by Travel Photographer, Ralph Velasco.

A slide show of of photos taken on our 2011 trip to the high Arctic as we cruised around Svalbard/Spitsbergen in search of Polar Bears, Walrus, Reindeer, etc. Svalbard, searching for Polar Bears We went on the ship The Expedition, owned and operated by Gap (now "G") Adventures.

A slide show of photos from our 2010 Tanzanian wildlife safari: Safari in Ngorongoro Crater and Tarangire National Park, Tanzania. Our safari was arranged by the Kiliwarriors and lasted 6 days, 2 in Ngorongoro and 4 in Tarangire.

A slide show of photos from our 2010 trip to go Mountain Gorilla Trekking in Rwanda's Parc des Volcans. We visited the Hirwa family the first day and the Sabyinyo family the second day.

A brief slide show of photos featuring the night sky and sea turtles on the beach near Parismina, Costa Rica.

A brief slide show of photos featuring the night sky and Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

A slide show of photos from our 2009 trip to Southern China (Guilin, Yangshuo, Longsheng)

A slide show of photos from our 2008 trip to Mongolia to view the Solar Eclipse.

A slide show of photos from our 2007 trip to Antarctica.

A visit to Turkey to view a total solar eclipse in 2006

The Tetrapylon in Aphrodisias

The Eclipse through a Telescope

View a (rather large and quickly made) slide show of Ted's photographs here. Michelle's coming soon!

A return visit to the world of the Maya in 2004

On top of Structure 2 in Calakmul, Mexico (a very large Mayan Pyramid).

Our traveling companions hang out in Palenque's Ball Court with the Palacio in the background.

A visit to the rarely visited site of Piedras Negras in Guatemala!

A visit to Egypt in 2003

View a slide show of some of the many photographs we took on our trip

Near the Valley of the Kings, above Hatshepsut's burial shrine of Deir-al-Bahri

Riding camels near the Step Pyramid in Saqqara.

Our First visit to the world of the Maya in 2003

On Top of Temple 4 at Tikal, Guatemala

Stela B at Copan, Honduras

Taking a break at Lubantuun in Southern Belize

Here we are doing our 300 foot rappel into the "Black Hole," as part of our stay at Ian Anderson's Cave Branch Lodge. The tree tops below us are the 100+ foot tall rainforest canopy!

Some highlights from our visit to the cave Actun Tunichil Muknal courtesy of Mayawalk Tours!

1) A formation

2) The skull of a sacrificial victim

3) Travertine terraces covered with offerings left by the ancient Maya.

Italy 2002

Our travel companions in front of Ponte Vecchio in Florence

Posing in Front of Constantine's Arch in Rome

Looking for counter top ideas in Pompeii

Don't worry, there's lots more trips and lots more sophisticated web page developement to be done, let's hope that we do it (and soon, this page is getting old)!

9 July 2004