FAMILY PHOTOS 2019 Collage
New Year starts in Lisbon (for full trip photos file
click here)
December 29, 2018 – January 3, 2019
Arrival in Lisbon / TRYP Oriente Hotel
(Web source image of Train Station view)
City Tour
The Jerónimos Monastery or
Hieronymites Monastery, is a former monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome near the
Tagus river in the parish of Belém, in the Lisbon
Municipality, Portugal; it was secularised on 28
December 1833 by state decree and its ownership transferred to the charitable
institution, Real Casa Pia de Lisboa. The monastery
is one of the most prominent examples of the Portuguese Late Gothic Manueline
style of architecture in Lisbon. It was classified a UNESCO World Heritage
Site, along with the nearby Tower of Belem in 1983.
(Web source image of Jeronimos
Monastery and Church)
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Belém Tower, or the "Tower of St
Vincent", is a fortified tower located in the civil parish of Santa Maria
de Belém.
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The Discoveries
Monument was built in Lisbon in honor of the great Henry the Navigator,
who led Portugal’s discovery expeditions into the New World during the
country’s heyday in the 15th century. It was designed in 1939 by the Portuguese
architect Jose Angelo Cottinelli Telmo
alongside his countryman, sculptor Leopoldo de Almeida.
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The Gulbenkian Museum is
an extraordinary exhibition hall that shows craftsmanship from 2000 BC to the
early twentieth century. The accumulation was given by Calouste
Gulbenkian, a humanitarian and benefactor of
expressions of the human experience of Armenian drop.
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New Year’s Eve Quiet Dinner
Fireworks
from hotel window
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Excursion to Sintra and Cabo Da Roca
Pena Palace Romanticist
Castle
The Pena Palace is a Romanticist castle in
São Pedro de Penaferrim, in the municipality of Sintra, on the Portuguese Riviera. The castle stands on the
top of a hill in the Sintra Mountains above the town
of Sintra, and on a clear day it can be easily seen
from Lisbon and much of its metropolitan area. It is a national monument and
constitutes one of the major expressions of 19th-century Romanticism in the
world. The palace is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the Seven Wonders
of Portugal. It is also used for state occasions by the President of the
Portuguese Republic and other government officials.
(above image from postcard)
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Cabo Da Roca
Cabo da Roca is a cape which forms the
westernmost extent of mainland Portugal, continental Europe and the Eurasian
land mass. The cape is in the Portuguese municipality of Sintra,
near Azóia, in the southwest of the district of
Lisbon, forming the westernmost extent of the Serra de Sintra.
(above image from
postcard)
Excursion to Obidos, Nazare and Alcobaca
Óbidos Small
Town
in Portugal
Óbidos is a town and a municipality in the Oeste Subregion in Portugal. The town proper has approximately 3100 inhabitants.
( above images from web source)
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Nazaré Coastal
Town
Nazaré is a Portuguese municipality in Oeste
region and Leiria District, in historical Estremadura province of Portugal. It
is one of the most popular seaside resorts in the Silver Coast, Portugal. Hosts
international surfing events.
(above image from post card)
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Alcobaça
Alcobaça is a city and a municipality in Oeste
Subregion, region Centro in Portugal, formerly included in the Estremadura
Province. The city grew along the valleys of the rivers Alcoa and Baça, from which it derives its name.
Monastery of Alcobaca
In the church
are
the tombs of Pedro I of Portugal and his murdered mistress Ines de Castro.
Visited
by a group of Arawjo nomads.
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January / February
FLORIDA ET AL
Riding the Autotrain Weekly visit to
Stella’s for breakfast
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Visiting Dali Museum
with Tom and Mary Gallagher
Tickets to see
Hamilton at Straz Center in Tampa
(two images below from web sources)
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Miami Visit
Birthday Dinner with
Tyler Sunday Brunch with Alex
Savannah Visit with
Henrik
Baltimore Stop with
Bill Carson and friend Nilda
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Berlin (for full trip photos file click here) April 7 – April 12, 2019
Sunday, April 7
Arrival
Hotel Bristol
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Monday, April 8
City Tour
Starts with visit to Reichstag
The building in which the main German legislature met from 1894
until it was badly damaged by fire on the Nazi accession to power in 1933.
After German reunification the building was renovated and in 1999 it became the
meeting place of the German parliament.
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Tuesday, April 9
Half-day
trip to Potsdam
Potsdam is the
capital and largest city of the German federal state of Brandenburg. It
directly borders the German capital, Berlin, and is part of the
Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region.
Schloss Sanssouci
Sanssouci
was the summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, in Potsdam, near
Berlin. It is often counted among the German rivals of Versailles. While Sanssouci is in the more intimate Rococo style and is far
smaller than its French Baroque counterpart, it too is notable for the numerous
temples and follies in the park.
(images below from post card and web source)
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Afternoon visit to
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedachtnis-Kirche
The original church on the
site was built in the 1890s. It was badly damaged in a bombing raid in 1943.
The present building, which consists of a church with an attached foyer and a
separate belfry with an attached chapel, was built between 1959 and 1963. The
damaged spire of the old church has been retained and its ground floor has been
made into a memorial hall.
The Memorial
Church today is a famous landmark of western Berlin, and
is nicknamed by Berliners "der hohle
Zahn", meaning "the hollow tooth".
(images below from post card and handout)
Organ loft and alter
images from Dianne
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Wednesday, April 10
Palace of Tears
(all images from web sources)
The
Tränenpalast is a former border crossing point
between East and West Berlin, at Berlin Friedrichstraße
station, which was in operation between 1962 and 1989. It is now a museum with
exhibitions about Berlin during the Cold War period and about the process of
German reunification. It was the border crossing for travelers on the S-bahn, U-bahn and trains going
between East and West Germany. It was used only for westbound border crossings.
It had separate checkpoints for West Berliners, West Germans, foreigners,
diplomats, transit travelers and East Germans.
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Thursday, April 11
Full-day
Trip to Dresden
Dresden
is the capital city and, after Leipzig, the second-largest city of the Free
State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near
the border with the Czech Republic.
From February 13 to February 15, 1945,
during the final months of World War II (1939-45), Allied forces bombed the
historic city of Dresden, located in eastern Germany. The bombing was
controversial because Dresden was neither important to German wartime
production nor a major industrial center, and before the massive air raid of
February 1945 it had not suffered a major Allied attack. By February 15, the
city was a smoldering ruin and an unknown number of civilians—estimated at
somewhere between 35,000 and 135,000–were dead.
(all images from web sources)
The
Dresden Frauenkirche is a Lutheran church in Dresden,
the capital of the German state of Saxony. An earlier church building was
Catholic until it became Protestant during the Reformation. It was completely destroyed
in WWII. Allowed to be in ruins by East German Government. Now fully restored
after unification.
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Dresden Royal
Palace
Procession of Princes
Procession
of Princes depicts a parade of Saxon rulers of the House of Wettin
since 1127. Mosaic composed of tiles.
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Friday, April 12
Berlin TV
Tower
The
Fernsehturm is a television tower in central Berlin,
Germany. Close to Alexanderplatz in Berlin-Mitte, the
tower was constructed between 1965–69 by the government of the German
Democratic Republic. It was intended to be both a symbol of Communist power and
of Berlin. It remains the latter today, as it is easily visible throughout the
central and some suburban districts of Berlin. With its height of 368 metres it is the tallest structure in Germany, and the
third-tallest structure in the European Union.
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The
Berlinsche Galerie is one of the newest museums in
the German capital and collects art from Berlin dating from 1870 to the present
day - with both a local and international focus.
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Summer Visits
May in Seattle
June in Bethlehem
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Southwest National Parks (for full trip photos file
click here)
June 12 – 20, 2019
Wednesday, June 12
The
National Park Road Trip begins with visit to
Hovenweep
National Monument is located on land in southwestern Colorado and southeastern
Utah, between Cortez, Colorado and Blanding, Utah on the Cajon Mesa of the
Great Sage Plain. Shallow tributaries run through the wide and deep canyons
into the San Juan River.
Thursday, June 13
The
National Park Road Trip continues South to New Mexico
Chaco Culture National Historical
Park is a United States National Historical Park in the American Southwest
hosting a concentration of pueblos. The park located in northwestern New
Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a remote canyon cut by the Chaco
Wash. Containing the most sweeping collection of ancient ruins north of Mexico,
the park preserves one of the most important pre-Columbian cultural and
historical areas in the United States.
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Friday, June 14
Today we
visit Santa Fe.
Museum of
Indian Arts and Culture
The Museum of Indian Arts and
Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology is a museum of
Native American art and culture located
in Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Lunch near
the Plaza and then to Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
The
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum is dedicated to the artistic legacy of Georgia
O'Keeffe, her life, American modernism, and public engagement. It opened on
July 17, 1997, eleven years after the artist's death. (image above from web source).
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Saturday, June 15
Day trips
from Santa Fe
Bandelier
National Monument is a 33,677-acre United States National Monument near Los
Alamos in Sandoval and Los Alamos Counties, New Mexico. The monument preserves
the homes and territory of the Ancestral Puebloans of a later era in the
Southwest. Most of the pueblo structures date to two eras, dating between 1150
and 1600 AD.
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The
Bradbury Science Museum is the chief public facility of Los Alamos National
Laboratory. It was founded in 1953, and was named for the Laboratory's second
director, Norris E. Bradbury. Among the museum's early exhibits, artifacts and
documents from World War II Manhattan Project were displayed upon
declassification. Other exhibits include full-size models of the Little Boy and
Fat Man atomic bombs. (two images below from web source)
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Sunday, June 16
On the
road South and East
(above image on right from postcard)
White Sands National Monument is a United
States national monument located in the state of New Mexico on the north side
of Route 70 about 16 miles southwest of Alamogordo. The monument is situated at
an elevation of 4,235 feet in the mountain-ringed Tularosa Basin and comprises
the southern part of a 275 sq mi field of white sand
dunes composed of gypsum crystals. The gypsum dune field is the largest of its
kind on Earth.
Monday, June 17
One more
step South and East (almost Texas)
Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New
Mexico contains some of the largest caves in North America—a must-visit
stop for vacations in New Mexico. As you pass through the Chihuahuan
Desert and Guadalupe Mountains of southeastern New Mexico and west Texas,
filled with prickly pear, chollas, sotols, and
agaves, you might never guess there are more than 300 known caves beneath the
surface. The park contains 113 of these caves, formed when sulfuric acid
dissolved the surrounding limestone. This includes Lechuguilla
Cave, the nation's deepest and fourth longest limestone cave at 1,567 feet
(478m). Carlsbad Cavern includes a large limestone chamber, named simply
the Big Room, which is almost 4,000 feet (1,220 m) long, 625 feet
(191 m) wide, and 255 feet (78 m) high at its highest point. The Big
Room is the fifth largest chamber in North America and the twenty-eighth
largest in the world.
(image
below from web source)
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Tuesday,
June 18
Long ride
North to Albuquerque
(three images below from web source)
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Wednesday, June 19
Time for a
relaxing day for town walk with shopping.
Lunch and Happy Hour on our final day.
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Shelly and Erik Wedding (for complete wedding album
click here)
September 27-28-29, 2019
Rehearsal Night and Morning Prep (photos from Nishi)
Ceremony
(photo credits: BC=Bill Carson; MO = Michelle Oeil (official wedding
photographer)
Dressing Room (all MO)
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Tyler Ann, Jack, Dianne and Michael (BC) Henrik and
Liz (photo from Liz)
Lua,
Henrik and Ela (MO) A blessed
wedding… (MO)
The Schellenberg/Wehden
Group (MO)
Mom
and Bride
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Reception
(photo credits: BC=Bill Carson; MO = Michelle Oeil (official wedding
photographer)
(BC)
(MO)
Morgan
and Clayton Blose
Celeste and Dennis Blose
(MO)
Nishi with Sister Meg
Beth and John Burgo
Schellenberg “Cousins”
Club
(BC)
Shelly
with Jack (step-dad)
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JAMAICIAN ANNIVERSARY
TRIP
NOVEMBER 4-9
Excellence Oyster Bay (photos from web)
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@ 28 years (hospitality hostess)
Hibachi Dinner Group
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