SEEING IS BELIEVING:
MEMORABLE PLACES & EXPERIENCES
A few of the more memorable & magical
places & things I've seen & experienced
Mt. Cook glacier helicopter landings - New Zealand
Milford Sound - New Zealand
Flying in the New Zealand Alps by private plane
Kauai & Maui, Hawaii by helicopter
Hoover Dam, Glen Canyon Dam
Hiking the Grand Canyon to Havasu Falls (mid-1960's)
Grand Canyon flightseeing - helicopter & fixed wing
Niagara Falls (US & Canada sides)
Mt. Kilamanjaro - Tanzania
Ngorongoro Crater - Tanzania
Equator - Kenya
Wildlife viewing at TreeTops and The Ark - Kenya
Turkey in-depth overland touring - 1980's
Ephesus - Turkey
Aphrodisias & its magnificent stadium - Turkey
Home of the Virgin Mary - near Ephesus, Turkey
Royal Palace - Bangkok
The Golden Triangle - Laos, Thailand, Burma
Riding elephants - Chang Rai - Northern Thailand
Hong Kong Harbor - Hong Kong
Copacabana/Corcovado - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma) - 4 nights on a riverboat
Los Llanos Wildlife - Birds & Landscapes of Venezuela
The Andes - Venezuela
Rain & Cloud Forests - Costa Rica
Cruising The Panama Canal
Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia - 1989
Student demonstrations in Sofia, Bulgaria during the fall of the Wall - 1989
U.S.S.R., Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia - during the 'Cold War' - 1980's
Flying cockpit 'jump seat' (737, 767, Airbus) into Sydney, Bangkok, Myanmar
Night landing Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong, in the cockpit jump seat of a 747-400
Christmas at the Chateau Lake Louise & Banff Springs Hotels - Alberta, Canada
Canadian Rockies, Alberta Canada - by motorcoach & rail
Swimming with dolphins in the wild - Galapagos, Ecuador
Flying in Kenya: on a DC-3, and single engine
Low-flying river excursion in a DC-3, Venezuela
Living in Michoacan, Mexico - land of the Tarascans
Patzcuaro and the fisherman's Isle of Janitzio - Michoacan, Mexico
Copper Canyon - Mexico
Viewing the Southern Cross - Fiji
Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania - site of the Leakey findings, origins of man
Sailing Tahiti & French Polynesia (sunset rainbows over Bora Bora)
Cruising The Rhine (Switzerland/France/Germany/Amsterdam)
Majestic Denali - Alaska
Matterhorn - Switzerland
Cappadocia - Turkey
Flying over Greenland
Wright Brothers Memorial - sight of first flight
North Carolina Outer Banks
Bodrum, Turkey
China (beginning in 1982)
The Great Wall of China
Tiananmen Square - Beijing, China
Terra Cotta Warriors - Xi'an, China
State Guest House - Beijing, China (site of Nixon/Kissinger talks)
Guilin - China (picturesque peaks)
U.S. Embassy visits - meetings with U.S. Ambassadors - Beijing & Moscow
Machu Picchu - Peru
Cali, Colombia - Cristo Rey
Riding horseback under a full moon-Great Pyramids, Cairo, Egypt
Teotihuacan, Mexico
Mayan Temples
Windmills & Canals - Holland
Supreme Court of Australia - Canberra, Australia
Castles of Europe
Ayers Rock - Australia
Sydney Opera House & Harbor - Sydney, Australia
The Great Barrier Reef - Australia
Stonehenge - Wiltshire, England
Anne Frank's Home - Amsterdam
The Parthenon - Athens, Greece
Cruising the Greek Islands
The Nile - Egypt
Great Pyramids - Cairo, Egypt
Galapagos, Ecuador
Na Pali Coast - Kauai, Hawaii
Beaches & Volcanoes of Fiji
Fjords of Norway
Beaches of Spain & Portugal
The Colosseum, Rome
The Parthenon, Greece
Swiss Alps
Rail Travel - Switzerland / Italy
Trans Canada by Rail - Toronto to Vancouver
Trans Pacific Cruise - Vancouver to China via Alaska, S. Korea, Russia, Japan
The Hermitage - St. Petersberg - early 80's
Red Square - Moscow - early 80's
Lenin's Tomb, Moscow
Mao's Tomb - Beijing, China
Eastern Orient Express to/from Bangkok-Singapore
Angkor Wat - Cambodia
Ancient Mayan observatory under a full moon - Tikal, Guatemala
Aztec Pyramids - Mexico
Palenque, Yucatan - Mexico
Serengeti on safari & by hot air balloon - Tanzania/Kenya
Utah National Parks - Bryce, Zion, Arches, Canyonlands
Mt. Rainier - Washington
North Rim - Grand Canyon
Glacier Bay, Alaska
Flightseeing over Vancouver & Alpine Lakes
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