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North America

Tour Name Days Year Remark
298
1951

For my junior year in high school, my aunt and her husband drove his nephew and us to California, where I went to Salinas Union High School. Great ride out in August, 1951, and bus back to Akron in June, 1952.

50
1956

Summer camp in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, via Mammoth Cave, Cumberland State Forest, and Smoky Mountains National Park; 40 days training; return via Kitty Hawk, Yorktown, Williamsburg, Monticello, and Luray Caverns.

New York City

(first trip)

2
1956

August 25th, first day in NYC: Empire State Building, "New Faces of 1956," Cinerama. August 26th, walk Wall Street, get picked up, Radio City Music Hall, bus back to Fort Meade for second week of reserve Summer Camp.

Philladelphia Trip

3
1958

April 18-20, visiting Laird, meeting people, and seeing plays

Akron Trip with Charles

9
1958

August 23-30, visiting college friends and seeing plays and relatives.

Akron, Ft Meade, Aberdeen 1958-1959

27
1959

"Visiting Akron again before arriving early for my Aberdeen Proving Grounds' six months in the US Army, so I spend time in Fort Meade and DC."

Six Months' Army Duty 1959

180
1959

US Army Active Duty January 19-July 20, at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, with included vacation weekends

16
1959

Two weeks' MATS flights to New Orleans for 2 days, Denver, San Francisco for seven days, San Antonio, and Bolling Air Force Base in DC.

11
1959

Road trip after six-months' active duty training: to New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine (Acadia National Park), and Vermont.

21
1960

Long Christmas vacation: 12/19/60: 2 days in Philly, 2 in DC, fly to LA for five days with Carl, back and forth to SF, more days with Carl, return to NYC 1/8/61.

15
1961

July 8-22 at Camp Drum, doing nothing at Ordnance Summer Camp; weekend sightseeing in Ottawa.

7
1961

October 18-24, my first jet flight, dining in Kerhulu, seeing the sights and museums and walking a lot.

10
1962

January 28-February 6: Miami Beach, Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Keys and Everglades, Vizcaya, boat and bus tours of town.

3
1962

August 17-20 for long lines at Seattle World's Fair with Mozelle, who misses plane after we get back from Mount Rainier.

99
1963

$99 for 99 days, hundreds of pages of notes, determined to see the United States before I indulge in European travel, which I find I adore!

18
1966

My three LSD trips, paid for by IBM, including airfare and Hollywood Hospital accommodation. A trip in more than one way.

11
1966

December 2-12: With Madge to Barbados, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Young's Island, and Antigua----must have counted Manhattan twice.

10
1967

Expo '67 June 9-18 with Larry: See practically every exhibit, including Marlene Dietrich and "Lulu."

14
1967

August 13-26 with Larry to Nova Scotia, ferry to Newfoundland, back to Sydney, Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island, and the Bay of Fundy; return via Boston.

9
1968

February 24-March 3 to Houston for an IBM convention, touring NASA, hearing Van Cliburn, and touring Galveston and dining.

40
1968

IBM gave me 40 days (July 27-September 4) to "get travel out of my system" and reconsider my decision to leave. North of Lake Superior with Avi, meet Cyndy in St. Paul, to Mt. Rushmore, Tetons, Yellowstone to meet Chuck, then Glacier Park, Banff, Jasper, Vancouver, Portland, Crater Lake, Bryce and Zion and Grand Canyons, the Jefferson Arch, Ohio, and NYC. I quit IBM September 20.

15
1968

December 12-26 for Rita's college graduation and visits to Dayton and many of my college friends from 1957.

12
1969

January 7-18: My father is in the hospital; spend time with his mother; he dies; paternal relatives come to visit.

25
1969

October 5-29: Drive to Bill's in Maine, then to Gaspé, Bangor, Campobello, Machais, Boston for Don and Hetch, and NYC by bus, losing a car somewhere along there.

5
1969

November 13-17: Participate in "March of the Dead" against the War in Vietnam, going to the Smithsonian with Bill's parchments.

7
1970

October 4-10 with John: Climb Ampersand Mountain, canoe Blue Mountain, Eagle, and Utowana Lakes, days at Elk Lake and Avalanche Lake and Cedar River Flow.

Lake Minnewaska

2
1971
May 1-2 in Wildmere Resort with John.
3
1971

May 21-23 with Arnie and Norma: Earthquake! Castle Rock, Chimney Mountain, Puffer Pond, and Cedar River Flow.

Adirondacks Spring

(Rochester night life)

5
1972

SUNDAY, 5/21/72: Glad they close down the window service, because everyone seemed to come from miles around to sit on the picnic benches and talk from their cars

Washington, D.C.

(August 6-8 with John, to Paul K.'s.)

3
1972

Disastrous DC trip August 6-8, Let me count the ways: 1 long drive down, then getting lost; 2 the Kreigsmans canceling out of the Sunday picnic; 3 my dissociation...

6
1972

Further up the hill the leaves were entirely frosted, tiny dendrites of ice sticking out from the edges served to give a glittery halo to the leaf when it was held up to the sun.

29
1973

February 3-March 3: Drive with John to Biltmore, Atlanta, Cedar Key, Ringling Museum, Everglades, Palm Beach, Jekyll Island, Charleston, Bull's Island, Pawley's Island, Jacksonville, New Bern, Norfolk, NYC.

7
1973

September 29-October 5 with John and Ben and Lucy: Climb Mount Snowy, canoe Blue Mountain Lake, Buttermilk Falls, Vanderwacker Mountain, visit Ben and Lucy in Ithaca.

7
1974

September 29-October 5 with John: OK Slip, Indian Falls, Black Bug Pond for popcorn snow, Sawyer Mountain and mushrooms, Uncas Trail to Black Bear Mountain and Bug Pond.

8
1975

September 28-October 5 with John: Uncas Trail, Moose Pond past Santanoni Preserve, John's Pond, Upper Sargent Pond from Forked Lake Road, Goodnow Mountain, Catlin Bay on Long Lake.

6
1975

October 30-November 4: Visit dying grandmother and other family.

41
1976
to
1977

12 trips for 41 days: New York, New Jersey, Akron

9
1976

October 2-10 with John: Hour Pond, Cedar River Flow, Goodnow Mountain, Cliffhanger, Adirondack Museum, Silver Staircase.

22
1978

February 8-March 1: With Azak: Puerto Rico, St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. John, Martinique, Santo Domingo, St. Maarten, Saba, San Juan, Nassau, Freeport, Orlando, Bermuda---and again I guess I counted Manhattan and Brooklyn.

9
1979

September 29-October 7 with Dennis : Osprey Island, Chimney Mountain, Cascade Pond, Lake Lila and Nehasane, Goodnow Mountain, Adirondack Museum, Warrensburg, Tirrell Pond.

Westrn/Northrn Canada/Alaska

27
1980

June 12-July 8: Fly and bus and boat to Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Alberta, British Columbia, and Alaska.

31
1980

December 9, 1979-January 8, 1980: Palenque, Oaxaca, Mitla, Uxmal, Chicken Itza, Merida, many other ruin sites.

21
1982

June 16-July 6: Visit aunt and uncle in Norfolk, friend in Winter Park, and sister and brother-in-law and nephew in Satellite Beach, FL.

5
1982

September 28-October 2 with John: Cliffhanger, Minnow Pond, Blue Mountain, Upper Saranac, Ely's Chapel, Lake Lila.

Provincetown Mass

4

1982

Actualism students drive for two sessions.

Epcot

7

1982

With Avi to Midge's and Gatorland

Florida

13

1983

Into Joe's at 11:55 and three JUMBO crab legs for $30 and I pack remains of mine and LOVE fish.

28
1983

Los Angeles for two days; followed by campers on three islands: Hawaii to the top of Mauna Kea; Maui to Hana and Haleakala; Kauai to Waimea and NaPali; followed by six more days in Los Angeles.

14
1989

Monorail to Victoria and Albert $80 menu at Grand Floridian at 11:30, then to MGM/Disney preview at 12, and Flight to Mars at 1 (disappointed that Space Mountain is CLOSED).

5
1992

Wake at 5:30 and watch sunrise from 6 AM, then shower at 7:10 and down to eat early, told that ferries across the lake for the Peaked Mountain climb will be just before 10 AM.

5
1993

Out to wander the town and I pick up a magazine that has an article on the Lake Minnewaska Hotels that I think Mohonk Mountain House is one of, but it isn't.

7
1995

June 7-13 with Charles: Kennywood Park and Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Geauga Lake Park in Ohio, photograph childhood sites.

6
1995

September 29-October 4 with Susie: Catskill Game Farm, Watch Hill, Sugar House, Mount Snowy, Balm of Gilead.

8
1996

July 16-23 with Charles: Dorney Park in Allentown and Knoebel's Amusement Park in Elysburg, PA; Akron 4 days; Fallingwater; Lakemont Amusement Park in Altoona, PA.

3
1996

August 2-4: Visit Edgardo and Marina and kids; Isabella Gardner Museum.

4
1998

May 19-22: With Susie and Griswolds to many diners and parts of park and falls and Wolf Creek, and Corning Glass Center.

7
1998

Breakfast 8AM, 10AM to Wright houses in Oak Park, hot fudge at Peterson's Ice Cream, Grand Plaisance, Richardson House, and "home" at 5:05 for Le Francais.

7
1998

July 16-22 with Charles: Knoebel's Amusement Park, Rock-N-Roll Museum (Pei), St. Mary's 45th reunion, Cedar Point for 8 roller coasters, other attractions.

8
2000

July 29-August 5 with Fred: Santa Fe Opera for "Rigoletto," "Marriage of Figaro," "Ermione," and "Elektra." Visit Los Alamos.

16
2001

March 29-April 13: With Fred to Tucson and Biosphere 2, Hermosillo, Guaymas, El Fuerte, Pacific-Chihuahua train, bus to Creel, Chihuahua, Bisbee, plane lands in Dulles, train to NYC.

9
2002

September 1-9: With Fred: Boston Aquarium, Acadia National Park, Halifax Maritime Museum, Saguenay River, Quebec City, Montreal, train to NYC.

CENTRAL AMERICA

Costa Rica

12
2002

11:11AM. Crocodiles, herons, egrets on boat 11:35-1:10: Mawamba Lodge. Buffet lunch, Nature Trail, Gulf Coast, Jesus Christ lizard, Tortuguero Village and drinks, dinner with wine, bed 9:15

29
2003

October 31-November 28: Paul's in DC and North Beach, auto-train to Orlando, visit Laird and Avi; Homestead, Flamingo, Miami, Islamorada, Satellite Beach.

Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries NY
with Edgardo & Marina

1
2005

Take cursory notes as we go through with the floor plan: Warhol "shadows," Flavin "neon," LeWitt "gray squares."

15
2005

August 2-16: With Ken, tour park, then ambulance to Idaho Falls and taxi return, then continue tour of park.

2
2006

Up next morning to a good breakfast from Porches, and to Mass MoCA for a rather disappointing set.

8
2006

November 9-16: Invited by the Isensteins, we stayed in their house in Highland Park and enjoyed Chicago museums, sights, and restaurants.

12
2006

THU,2/16/06: Ocho Rios, Jamaica: walk to "Ruins" and Crane Ridge Resort, and buy Rum Cream at Rum, Roast & Royales. 4x4 jeep tour.

18
2007

Much changed in revisiting Tikal and Copan. Panama and El Salvador good additions to countries seen.

6
2007

Hilarious error-ridden trip to satisfy a whim to see the ABCs by my own lack of planning. Just barely worked.

16
2009

Two days in Ottawa; then flight to Kuujjuak; and ship to Killiniq Island in Nunavut; see aurora borealis for an hour; then to Nachvak Fjord, Saglek Bay, Hopedale, Gros Morne National Park, La Poile, St. Pierre and Miquelon, and land in Halifax. Train to Montreal for great La Toqué dinner; train to NYC.

8
2010

July 19-26. Ken and I visit the Isensteins in their wonderful home; with our rented car we travel all over the island. Bob