For ten years, from 1980 until 1990 (and possibly a little beyond), our family had an in-depth inter-cultural experience that really helped to make us who we are today.  We hosted ~70 people from 13 different countries (noted above) from anywhere from overnight (a guy from Morocco) to 3 years (Vince, from Malaysia).  Ned spent a year in Rio de Janeiro with our Brasilian son, Eduardo; Tom visits Brasil, not only Eduardo but also Nelson in Sao Paulo; and Jeri took a tour across Europe, staying with Jane in England, and visiting several of our European foreign guests.   Walt and I never dreamed we'd actually be able to visit some of the countries of the guests who visited us.

But now that the kids are grown, we have discovered a love of travel (and, with no kids in college any more, a little extra money to be able to do it). We have been to several interesting places.

In the United States...

• Napa Valley , May 7, 2000 (wine tasting weekend)
• Washington, DC, 2000, April 30, 2000 (Millennium March on Washington)
• My Cinderella Weekend, November 1999
• New England, October 1999
• Denver, July 1999 (seeing a production of The Last Session)
• Texas 1999 again, July 1999 (Houston, Kemah, Galveston)
• Ohio again,  June 1999 (seing Jeri's production of Jesus Christ Superstar)
• Texas 1999, April 1999 (Houston, Austin, San Antonio)
• Washington, D.C., 1998 (gathering of CompuServe friends)
• Hawaii, November 1997 (with our Brasilian Friends)
• Houston, TX, December 1997 (visiting Mike and Bill Brunson-Kelley)
• Ohio, Summer 1997 (seeing She Loves Me by Weathervane Playhouse)
• Seattle, WA, July 1997 (weekend with CompuServe friends)
• Washington, D.C., June 1997 (Smithsonian Award for Georgia Griffith)
• San Diego, CA, February, 1997 (gathering of CompuServe friends)
• Boulder, CO, June, 1996 (gathering of CompuServe friends)
• Washington, D.C., 1996 (Volunteer for the AIDS quilt display on the Capitol Mall)

...and out of it...

• England
• London
• Buxton (2nd Annual Gilbert & Sullivan Festival) [this page is a little photo-intensive]
• York
• Other parts of England
• Ireland
• Dublin
• The West Side
• Southern Ireland (Waterford, Cork, Kilarney, Kerry, etc.)
• Scotland
• Amsterdam
• Paris
• Western Australia (2003)
• France/Italy (2009)
• Russia (2010)
• China (2011)

Wherever we go, London often seems to enter into the itinerary. Walt is a master of getting around by "tube"

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Bev Sykes