TRAVEL

In a globalizing world, with a career of international service, a family scattered in the far corners of the earth, and the Bahá'í Faith, travelling is inevitable, and I have spent much of my life in airplanes and airports, trains (in Europe), and other less conventional forms of transport like dugout canoes. I must balance the severe impact of this aspect of my ecological footprint against the services I can render, and have for many years not taken travelling vacations for pleasure. In any case, a chance to stay at home for a while is a real vacation, and my chalet gives me a place for a change of pace. I only drive when there are no reasonable alternative forms of public transport, or more than I can carry.

In the early years, I took hundreds of photos on my trips as a way of recording them, and some day I may scan the best for this site. Then I stopped carrying a camara at all because it got in the way of more important things, and I try to travel with as little as possible.

With digital photography, and the Internet as a way of sharing pictures, I have again started recording some of my trips illustrated below, largely in chronological order.

Travel 2012
France (for my father-in-law's funeral)

Travel 2011
France, including Stanford-in-France III 50th reunion; Quebec; California; Germany; Portugal; Montenegro; Budapest; Netherlands
Of special interest: Gorge of the Devil's Bridge and Budapest museum visited by 'Abdu'l-Bahá

Travel 2010
Israel, Czech Republic, India, Bulgaria, Quebec, Netherlands, France, Croatia, England
Of special interest: Bahá'í pilgrimage to Israel

Travel 2009
England; Copenhagen; Delft; France; Bornholm (Denmark); Bulgaria; Washington, DC; Quebec; Croatia; Malaga, Spain
Of special interest: Wedding of Sylvia Karlsson and Onno Vinkhuyzen
Windsor Castle celebration of religious action plans for climate change

Travel 2008
Estonia; Quebec; Portugal; Italy; Montenegro

 Travel 2007
Bulgaria; Canada; France; New Caledonia; dePoort, Netherlands
Of special interest: Queen Marie's summer palace in Balchik, Bulgaria
Monastery at Ganagobie, France

Travel 2006
Italy/Netherlands; Bulgaria/Macedonia; Oxford, UK
Travel 2005
Acuto, Italy; Carmel, California; Cyprus; Monaco; Quebec; Sweden; Taiwan

1960s
Stanford-in-France 1961-62




Switzerland
Geneva; Grindelwald; Walensee
Of special interest: Palais des Nations, Chateau de Bossey