Places I've been...  Places I'd love to go...

London, England - Went for two weeks for work last August and felt like I was coming home.  Looks like I'll be heading out there again for the last week of April/first week of May. The company puts us up at the posh Holborn Grange and we commute in to Milton Keynes.  Leaves time for exploring the city for a new joint to eat each night and sightseeing on the weekend.  The pictures just don't seem to say anything about what this trip meant to me - or what most of my trips to Europe have meant... But they and the memories (and friends I've made, of course) are all I have...

St. Augustine, FL - Of all the places I've been in the U.S., this is probably my favorite. Words fail.

Bethlehem, PA - My college stomping grounds and a beautiful historic town. I love the moody autumn skies of Bethlehem. The curving Pennsylvania mountain roads in autumn inspired the purchase of my first motorcycle where I rode to forget my worries, autumn leaves swirling like miniature tornadoes in my wake.

Cancun, Mexico - A reward trip for those of us in the Development team of the company formerly known as ICI (International Computex, Inc.). What a great time!

France - Paris, Nantes and Noirmoutier - one trip to Paris was just for sightseeing; the next was as a foreign exchange student where I lived in Nantes and, primarily, the peninsula on the west coast of France, Noirmoutier. It changed me and, if I could live anywhere in the world, it would probably be France.

Stockholm, Sweden; Oslo, Norway; Helsinki, Finland; Leningrad, Russia - A Sociology 'Jan Term' took me to these countries in the coldest January in more than 40 years. Wandering the streets in the older side of Stockholm with its medieval buildings was my favorite part.

Callaway Gardens, GA - a nice place to visit. My favorite part is the butterfly house.  Sit still and a dozen may simply land on you.