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 World 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, and from
time to time I shall add them here.
Travel 2005
Acuto, Italy; Carmel, California; Cyprus; Monaco; Quebec; Sweden; Taiwan
Travel 2006
Italy/Netherlands; Bulgaria/Macedonia; Oxford, UK
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 2008
Estonia; Quebec; Portugal; Italy; Montenegro
Switzerland
Geneva; Grindelwald; Walensee
Of special interest: Palais des Nations, Chateau de Bossey