tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17702436044329813002023-11-16T00:12:59.855-07:00blog weldonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770243604432981300.post-58899380894697198952020-09-20T18:09:00.009-06:002022-12-18T05:29:05.259-07:00Glacier National ParkWe spent two days in Montana's Glacier National Park on Thursday and Friday (September 17–18, 2020).
Large portions of the park were closed because of COVID-19, and smoke from the fires along the Pacific Coast hid all but the very close mountains and hills. In spite of those drawbacks, it was a fun visit. (We wore masks whenever we were in close proximity to other visitors.)We saw thisUnknownnoreply@blogger.comGlacier National Park, Montana, USA48.7596128 -113.787022520.449376915197579 -148.94327518220902 77.069848684802423 -78.630769817790991tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770243604432981300.post-77599317960916373292019-10-24T16:46:00.005-06:002022-12-08T15:39:13.407-07:00Marietta and Kirtland, Ohio, October 14-17, 2019During 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 4-day trips) to see places of historical significance.This year we flew to Maryland on Tuesday, October 8.In the interest of privacy, I won't show lots of photos of them and their small children, with whom we visited until through Sunday, October 13.Both Barbara and Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770243604432981300.post-58337977420766976872019-06-08T16:46:00.007-06:002022-12-08T15:37:25.014-07:00Yellowstone and Grand Teton National ParksAt the invitation of my daughter, we went with them to visit Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. The visit stretched from May 30 to June 1, 2019.We actually traveled to West Yellowstone, Montana, on May 29.I was outnumbered by female relatives:We waited around dutifully for Old Faithful to erupt:We visited Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone:We crossed the Continental Divide on May 31. Water Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770243604432981300.post-32216465036779461882018-11-05T22:08:00.165-07:002022-12-08T15:38:30.429-07:00Grand Canyon and Sedona, Arizona, October 29–November 2, 2018On 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 Mountain Standard Time (an hour earlier than Mountain Daylight Time of our home), which gave us feeling of having an extra hour to drive.It was dark as we drove the winding roads of the final few miles to our lodging at the National Park. The next morning we Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770243604432981300.post-57590898288707775662018-06-13T22:06:00.004-06:002022-12-08T15:37:42.983-07:002018 Visits to Civil War Sites in Maryland and West VirginiaOn 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 visit the Antietam National Battlefield. Both visits were very educational, ... and very sobering.
National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Frederick, Maryland, June 5, 2018
An inauspicious "store front" opened into a fascinating tour of medicine as practicedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770243604432981300.post-49312933715533114522017-10-22T12:00:00.003-06:002022-12-08T15:38:15.427-07:00Goblin Valley and Capitol ReefWe visited Goblin Valley State Park and Capital Reef National Park on October 20–21, 2017. Here are a few photos from that visit.
Goblin Valley State Park, October 20, 2017
(For what it's worth, the movie Galaxy Quest was filmed here ...)
Yes, this is me
Capitol Reef National Park, October 21, 2017
Capitol Reef National Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770243604432981300.post-13761984490653791542017-05-11T15:16:00.035-06:002022-12-08T15:37:54.938-07:00Visit to the National Mall, Washington, D.C., May 4-5, 1917My 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 large. (Yes, I had visited Minneapolis' Mall of America in 1992—right after it opened and before we moved from Minnesota.) The National Mall is unlike anything I had experienced before. Barbara in the National Mall with the nation's capitol in the background, MayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770243604432981300.post-73264344899545060022017-05-04T21:31:00.005-06:002022-12-08T15:38:07.929-07:00Visit to Palmyra, New York, May 1 - 3, 2017While visiting our son in Mt. Airy, Maryland, we decided to take a short trip northward to upstate New York.Day 1: Travel to Henrietta, New York. May 1
We left Mt. Airy at about 9:00 a.m., driving north through Westminster, Maryland; Gettysburg and Harrisburg (the state capital), Pennsylvania; then to Corning, New York. We visited the Corning Museum of Glass there.Approaching the Corning Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770243604432981300.post-46829069119364463172017-04-28T21:08:00.001-06:002022-12-08T15:38:00.593-07:002017 Visit to Gettysburg National Military Park I recently visited my first historical site of the 1861-1865 war between the United States and the Confederate States. During junior high I had memorized Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and we briefly read about other battles of the Civil War. Unfortunately, however, I forgot much of the information in a fairly short time.
We visited Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on Friday, April 28, 2017. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770243604432981300.post-26704179578040684762014-04-04T22:10:00.000-06:002022-12-18T05:18:18.783-07:00Capitol Reef National Park, April 4, 2014Utah's Capitol Reef National Park is definitely one of my favorites!
Abby and MissyDeer crossing the highwayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comCapitol Reef National Park, Torrey, UT, USA38.3669703 -111.2615041999999913.835668799999993 -152.5700982 62.8982718 -69.952910199999991tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770243604432981300.post-49166356362107453382013-05-17T08:01:00.006-06:002022-10-16T19:53:48.338-06:00Germany Trip 2013
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 trip we visited Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Cologne (Köln), Würzburg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Kattenhochstatt, Nuremberg (Nürnberg), Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau Castles (near Füssen), Munich (München), Leipzig, Berlin and Hamburg (whew!).
We had a great timeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770243604432981300.post-15955569491519687482010-08-31T20:56:00.007-06:002022-12-18T06:50:11.007-07:00San Francisco, San Jose, and Monterey, California, August 23-30, 2010Barbara 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 Language Institute there.On Monday, August 23, we flew via US Airways A319 to Phoenix, then an A320 to San Francisco. We took an airport shuttle to Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco's Japan Town.The first night we found a Kinokuniya Bookstore (紀伊國屋書店).On Tuesday, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770243604432981300.post-9248345688289659192009-08-01T10:03:00.003-06:002022-12-08T15:36:24.619-07:00Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, July 23-24, 2009We 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 National Park. Here are some of the photos we took:
Paris (Idaho) Tabernacle, July 23, 2009
As we drove through Paris, Idaho, we saw an interesting building, so we stopped and took some pictures:
The Paris Tabernacle from the road
Barbara, standing by Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770243604432981300.post-34836376428898704222007-09-16T12:55:00.003-06:002022-10-16T19:54:49.725-06:00Rhine Cruise 2007 via Manhattan
In 2007 we took a cruise on the Rhine and other rivers in the area of Frankfurt am Main (sometime referred to at "Mainhattan" because of its skyscrapers. The cruise embarked from the Frankfurt airport. We decided to spend a day or two in Manhattan (New York City) on our want to "Mainhattan"
New York City, September 5, 2007
Our hotel (the Red Roof Inn) was across the street from the Empire Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770243604432981300.post-37054801489583690972005-08-21T13:11:00.003-06:002022-12-08T15:32:55.754-07:00Our 2005 Visit to England, the Netherlands, and France
Barbara and I visited our daughter in the UK in August 2005. After our visit, we rode the Chunnel to Brussels, then visited the Netherlands and France.
We visited Lakenheath, London, Bury St. Edmunds, Cambridge, and Bocking (Essex) in the UK. Then we took the Aerostar ("Chunnel") to the Continent and visited Amsterdam, the Hague, Versailles, and Paris.
RAF Lakenheath August 10
Our plane Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770243604432981300.post-75957409430073932682004-10-28T15:18:00.003-06:002022-12-18T05:22:25.107-07:00October 2004 Hawaii VacationOn Thursday, October 21, 2004, we flew to Honolulu to visit our son John, a programmer for Konami Software. We took John's surfboard (wrapped in bubble wrap) in the back of our pickup to the airport and shipped it as excess baggage to Honolulu. We left SLC at 1:10 p.m. and arrived in Honolulu at 6:10 p.m., after a brief stop in Los Angeles. We stayed at the Waikiki Gateway Hotel.
Exploring Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770243604432981300.post-65482315455674883722001-09-01T17:08:00.001-06:002022-12-18T05:22:50.371-07:00July-August 2001 Japan TripOn Thursday, July 26, Barbara and I flew to Japan's Kansai Airport via Los Angeles. Crossing the International Date Line, we arrived at about 6:00 p.m. The Iwaki family met our flight and drove us to their home in Kawanishi in northwestern Kansai.
On the way they stopped at a restaurant named Gyōza no Ōshō (餃子の王将), where Barbara and I had yakisoba. (It was delicious!) We met the father Masaaki, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770243604432981300.post-25811943697908250631992-07-21T14:49:00.001-06:002022-12-18T05:23:31.303-07:001992 Visit to Isle Royale National ParkIn 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 Isle Royale National Park, located on an island in Lake Superior. I accepted his invitation.
Besides Bernie, my son John, and me, a second scout, Scott Cook came on the week-long trip. (More scouts had expected to go, but their vacations ended up in Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770243604432981300.post-85960225563113052171989-06-03T12:24:00.001-06:002022-12-18T05:23:49.683-07:00IBM Trip to Tokyo Software Evaluation Lab, May 1989
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). Barbara joined me on Tuesday, May 16. We returned together on Sunday, May 28.
I stayed at Tokyo's Capitol Tokyu Hotel until May 16. During that time it was all work. On Saturday, May 13, I met Heisuke Wada (who with me had opened the Wakayama Branch in 1970Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770243604432981300.post-18335300586297723211987-12-25T22:07:00.000-07:002022-12-18T05:24:03.947-07:00IBM Trip to Fujisawa, Japan, December 1987The week before Thanksgiving 1987, IBM asked me to go to Fujisawa, Japan, to help them set up IDSS (Integrated Development Support System). Gary Doerge went with me. We flew Northwest Airlines from Minneapolis to Tokyo, leaving Saturday, December 5, at 6:35 a.m., and arriving at Narita Airport the next day. IBMers in Japan work very late—often until 9:00 or 10:00 pm. They arrive at work at Unknownnoreply@blogger.comFujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan35.3388593 139.4911220000000235.131674800000006 139.16839850000002 35.5460438 139.8138455tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770243604432981300.post-48825805389015074451971-03-12T13:01:00.003-07:002022-12-18T06:46:42.293-07:00Japan, 1968-1971
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 (末日聖徒イエスキリスト教会) for nearly 2 1/2 years. I'll try to give a flavor of those years through photographs.
Kobe, October 20, 1968–March 22, 1969
Early Sunday morning, October 20, our plane from Honolulu landed at Tokyo's Haneda Airport. (The Narita Airport Unknownnoreply@blogger.com