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On September 28, 2021, I tore the Lisfranc ligament in my right foot. This chronicles the treatment of that tear.

We spent two days in Montana's Glacier National Park on Thursday and Friday (September 17–18, 2020).  Large portions of the park were cl...

During the past few years as we've visited our son's family in Mount Airy, Maryland, we have taken small day trips (sometimes 3- or ...

At the invitation of my daughter, we went with them to visit Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. The visit stretched from May 30 to ...

On Monday, October 29, my wife, youngest daughter, and I drove to the south rim of Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. The park is on Mou...

On June 5 we visited the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, MD. The following week, on June 11, we drove to Sharpsburg to v...

We visited Goblin Valley State Park and Capital Reef National Park on October 20–21, 2017. Here are a few photos from that visit.  Goblin...

My wife and I decided to visit Washington's National Mall. Although I had heard of the Mall, I really wasn't expecting it to be so l...

While visiting our son in Mt. Airy, Maryland, we decided to take a short trip northward to upstate New York.

I recently visited my first historical site of the 1861-1865 war between the United States and the Confederate States. During junior high I ...

Utah's Capitol Reef National Park is definitely one of my favorites!

Barbara and I visited our son in Germany for thirteen days, leaving the U.S. on April 22 and returning May 4, 2013. During the 13-day tr...

Barbara and I decided to visit San Francisco for a few days, then travel to Monterey and visit our John, who was studying at the Defense Lan...

We took a two-day trip to visit Yellowstone National Park on July 23-24, 2009. On the way we stopped at Paris, Idaho and Grand Teton Nationa...

In 2007 we took a cruise on the Rhine and other rivers in the area of Frankfurt am Main (sometime referred to at "Mainhattan" be...

Barbara and I visited our daughter in the UK in August 2005. After our visit, we rode the Chunnel to Brussels, then visited the Nether...

On Thursday, October 21, 2004, we flew to Honolulu to visit our son John, a programmer for Konami Software. We took John's surfboard (wr...

On Thursday, July 26, Barbara and I flew to Japan's Kansai Airport via Los Angeles. Crossing the International Date Line, we arrived at ...

In 1992 we lived in Rochester, Minnesota. Bernie Allen, my son's scoutmaster, asked me to go with him and some scouts to spend a week at...

On Friday, May 5, 1989 I flew from Minnesota to Tokyo for a three-week trip to work in IBM's Tokyo Software Evaluation Lab (TSEL).  ...

The week before Thanksgiving 1987, IBM asked me to go to Fujisawa, Japan, to help them set up IDSS (Integrated Development Support System). ...

On October 20, 1968, I set foot on Japanese soil, where I would serve as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (...