Our first cruise and first long trip since spring of 1999. We started in Seattle for 2 days and then took the ferry to Victoria for a day. From Victoria, we took another ferry to Vancouver for 3 days and then boarded the Sea Princess to sail the inside passage to Anchorage. We had two days and one night in Anchorage before returning home.

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New York trip between Christmas and New Year's day in 2001. We had planned the trip before the trade center bombings. It was very cold, but an enjoyable trip.

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Our short trip to Boston in January of 2002 where we met Clay Juckett for a quick city tour and then in the evening left for Dublin Ireland.

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Our first international trip in January 2002. We left from Boston and arrived Dublin Ireland. Within 30 minutes of the twisty Irish Roads, we were lost trying to find our B&B and had a flat. Sharp stones, small roads and driving on the left were not a good match. This was our only trouble on a wonderful trip.

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We spent 3 days in San Francisco in the summer of 2002 before continuing on to Hawaii. Our trip was in combination with two sessions that I presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Business at Waikiki.

We also took a cruise of the islands on Norweagan and were very disappointed in their freestyle cruising and service on the ship.

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Our travels brought us to Hawaii in the summer of 2002 for a conference in Waikiki. I presented two sessions at the Hawaii International Conference on Business. We started in San Francisco and then 3 days later arrived early in the morning in Hawaii. We stayed at Shearaton at Waikiki for a night and then went to board the Norwegean Star for a week cruise.

The cruise was not the best. Nothing disasterous, but not a good value with poor food and service. We arrived back at the Shearaton for 1 week for the conference and a little sight seeing on Oahu.

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Trip to Ireland in January of 2003. Trip started in Shannon and then did a northern arc to Dublin. This was a wonderful trip with many good photographs and a magical experience.

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Scottish Castles. Edinburgh Castle in Edinburgh Scotland sits high above the city of Edinburgh below. The castle is the home of the Scottish Crown Jewels and features Margaret's Chapel, memorial to Scottish war dead and an exhibit of Scottish military regiments.

Sterling Castle was built by the Stewart Kings of Scotland. It is located near the sites of battles by William Wallace (Braveheart). These battles occured after the castle's construction. Sterling was later a British military base and then became a part of the national trust.

Urquhart Castle sits on Loch Ness and was fought over for many years. It was under the control of the English, Scottish Crown and Clan McDonald depending on the year.

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Culloden was the sight of the last battle for Scottish Independence. The Scottish forces were led by Bonnie Prince Charlie and were called the Jacobites. The were tired and fought the well rested, more powerful English in a location that was not conducive to their fighting style. After the loss, Prince Charlie fled to France and later died in Italy.
The Clan way of life of faded into history and the language of Gaelic and Scots were almost lost. The English made it illegal to play the pipes, wear the tartan or any part of the highland manner of dress. Many Scots left for America in the wave of this persecution.

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Pictures from Athens, Greece and trip to the Mediterranean aboard Celebrity's Millenium.

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Venice is known as the city of love. It is a city with canals located on a lagoon. We visited Venice in 2003 when we boarded the Celebrity Millennium.

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Rome -- The Eternal City. Rome is famous for it's landmarks. The Colosseum was originally called the Flavian Ampitheatre after its builders, the emperors Vespasian and Titus, both of the Flavian family. Construction began around 70 AD in a low lying area between the Palatine, Esquiline, and Caelian hills that had once formed the pond of Nero's Domus Aureus. The ampitheatre probably came to be called the "Colosseum" because a colossal statue of Nero once stood near it.

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These ruins are surrounded by the modern city of Naples and in fact Naples has built on top of the ancient city. Heculaneum suffered the same fate as Pompeii following the erruption of Mount Vesuvius

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Pisa is a good example of the architecture of the Renaissance. This is seen in marble work of the complex at Pisa including the cathedral, baptistery and famous tower (leaning tower of Pisa).

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Pictures of the grand city of Florence Italy from our trip during the summer of 2003. The city of Florence is the birthplace for the Renaissance.

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Our trip to Egypt started with a short visit to New York. We had hoped to really see the Statue of Liberty, but it was still not open. We did a quick bus tour of New York and then the next day went to Ellis Island for our second visit to this landmark. Before the trip to the island, we did get to take a harbor tour around New York including viewing Yankee Stadium and the UN.

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Photos from our Summer 2004 trip to Egypt where we traveled from Alexandria to Abul Simbel. We spent several days in Cairo going to Memphis, Sakara and Giza. Our trip included a train ride to Aswan and a Nile Cruise to Luxor with stops in Edfu, Kom Obo, Esna and the Valley of the Kings.

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The beginning of the grand European trip during the Summer of 2005. We started by flying to Newark and then to London and finally on to Dublin. We traveled across from Dublin to Galway and then down to the Ring of Kerry before leaving from Shannon going back to London and then on to South Hampton to board the Golden Princess.

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Upon arriving in London from Shannon we traveled by coach to South Hampton to board the Golden Princess. We were on the Golden for 10 days and visited Brugge, Belgium; Oslo, Normay; Copenhagen, Denmark; Hamburg, Germany; Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and LeHarve, France. We traveled with Mom and Dad and rested in London for one day before flying to Rome.

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We arrived at Civitaveechia from Rome by Train. We boarded the Galaxy and sailed the Eastern Mediterranean stopping at the Greek Islands of Mykonos, Rhodes, Santorini. We sailed on to Turkey stopping at Istanbul and Kusadasi (for Ephesus). Returning from Turkey, we stopped in Pireaus (Athens) Greece and then Naples. We disembarked in Naples due to a train strike scheduled for the next day.

We disembarked the ship in Naples, 1 day early and stayed 2 nights in St. Angelo near Sorrento

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Photos from our visit to Italy before and after the 11 day cruise on Celebrity Galaxy. Before the cruise, we visited Tivoli Gardens and then Hadrian's Villa and toured Rome. In Rome, we saw St. Peter in the Chains Cathedral, the mouth of Truth, Italy's tomb of the unknown warrior. We stayed in B&B and the next day went to the Collesium and the Forum climbing Palantine Hill. Our journey to the ship at Civitaveechia was by train.

After the cruise, we stayed in St. Angelo near Sorrento. We visited Naples briefly and spent a day on Capri before returning to Rome and flying back to London.

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We arrived back from Rome late at night and stayed in the Kensington section of London at the Tara Copthorne near the Kennsington High Street station. We rested for 2 days from our trip to Italy and I attended the Global Business and Economics Conference in Oxford. In London, we visited St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, and saw the changing of the guard. We went on three London walks including a Sherlock Holmes walk and a Beatles Walk as well as a complete London Walking tour. We also visited Harrods and the British Museum.

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Our 23 hour stop in Paris was mostly consumed in traveling from the Airport by metro to the hotel and trying to find the hotel. We had about 6 to 7 hours for sightseeing and made the most of it with a guide. We saw the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Napoleon's Tomb, The Arch de Triumphe, the Eiffel Tower, and the Louvre. We walked along the Siene river and traveled by Metro around Paris. We then flew onto Madrid to join our coach tour of Spain, Portugal and Morroco.

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We arrived in Madrid to begin our 15 day tour through Spain, Portugal and Morroco. We visited Toledo, Madrid, Avillia, Salamanca, Sevillia, and Granada. We saw moorish palaces, grand cathedrals, the tomb of Columbus, the house of the Barber of Seville and the land of Don Quioxite (La Manchia). We also stopped at Avilla where St. Teresa of Avilla was born and her convent.

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Our coach trip traveled from Spain to Portugal where we stayed over night in Coimbra and Lisbon. We visited Coimbra, Fatima and Lisbon before returning to Spain and then on to Morroco.

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The last country on our Coach trip of Spain, Portugal and Morocco was the most intriguing country on the trip. We visited Tangier after crossing from Spain near Gibraltar. We journeyed on to Fes and visited the medina (old city) and the souqs (markets). We also visited Meknes, Marakesh and Casablanca before our last major city the capital city Rabat.

The most striking parts of the country were the souqs and medina in Fes along with soqs in Marakesh and casbah in Rabat. The most intersting part of the tour was visiting Mr. Omar's house in the Ourika Valley.

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We traveled to the east and arrived in the Central Kingdom or Middle Kingdom -- China. China is an ancient society and one that is often misunderstood by those in the west.

China is the third largest country in the world, next to Canada and Russia, it has an area of 9.6 million square kilometers, or one-fifteenth of the world's land mass. It is noted for such archaeological treasures as The Great Wall, the TerraCotta Warriors and the bronze bells of Wuhan.

The trip started in Beijing and then went to Xian, Chong ching and on a river cruise up The Yangtze River. We left the ship in Nanjing and then went by coach to our last stop in Modern Shanghai.

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