Structure & Strangeness

 

Japan - Spring Break 2005

For Spring Break 2005, I flew to Japan with the intention of exploring my first country from the Asian continent. Destinations were Tokyo, Kyoto and Miyazaki. I took so many pictures (130 in all!), I've made a seperate page for them. Click through to see the full listing.


Slicing tuna, Tokyo Fish Market


To-ji gardens and pagoda


Elder archer (note the hat)


Fuji-san

 

Belize - New Years 2005

With friends Keith, Angie, Ben, Jen and Aleta, I spent a week in tropical Belize over New Year's 2005. Five nights on Caye Caulker doing reef diving and snorkling with Belize Diving Services, followed by a day of traipsing around the Mayan (history, history) ruins of Altun Ha (visiting, history), and hikes through the rain forest in the Community Baboon Sanctuary (CBS) (which is home to black howler monkeys among other things) - the trip was an amazing experience.


Angie and Keith on the water taxi


Ben and Jen on the water taxi


Disembarkation at Caye Caulker


Caye Caulker shoreline


on the pier at Caye Caulker


Ben falling over


Opening a coconut the hard way


Still trying to open it


Girls watching the boys


Heron in the water


Watching the sunset from the pier


The Split


Streetlight reflected in the water


The group on the pier


Aaron on the pier


Keith reading history of Altun Ha to us


Ben and Jen listening


Smaller temple on the plaza


Some ways are prohibited


Looking across to the larger pyramid and plaza


Pair of masks on side of pyramid


Central mask on pyramid


Looking up the side


On top of the pyramid


A vine tree killing its host


Our hut at the Sanctuary bed and breakfast


Our trusty vehicles that got us there


A rare old growth tree


A leaf cutter colony


The male howler monkey descends


Feeding the howlers


The male up close


Male eating banana


Almost done


Looking for more


Angie and a howler


Mother and baby howlers descend


The baby up close


Baby tail wrapped around mother's tail


Mother and baby retreat

France - Early Summer 2004

Flying in two weeks early for a reseasrch trip to ENS Lyon, I had time to travel for pleasure. I stopped to see many of the same sights I'd seen in summer 2002. In sum, Paris, Amboise, Nice, Monaco and Lyon.


Tour Eiffel


Notre Dame Facade


at Night


Tomb of Napoleon


Cupid and Pyche Entwined


Nike of Samothrace


Pretty Angel


Venus de Milo


Liberte


D'Orsay Bowman


D'Orsay Gladiators


Palace of Versailles


Versailles Chapel


Hall of Mirrors


Versailles Gardens


Tortured Titan


Marie Antoinette's Hamlet


Poseidon at Versailles


Fountain Day


Chenonceau Chateau


Chenonceau Great Hall


Chambord Chateau


Casino Monte Carlo


Monaco Beach


Saudi Prince Yacht


Flat Fountain in Lyon


Lyon Opera House


Lyon Fountain

 

Haverford 2004 Graduation

Stef graudated in May, so I flew out for the week. Pictures from a trip to the Philadelphia Zoo and Commencement.


Phila Zoo - Caymen


Red Panda


Sleepy Jag


Stef with Thing


Krugman Speaks


Stef and Aaron


Lyle and Aaron


Stef's Family

Various - Spring Break 2004

Spring break was a whirlwind - a week in Ann Arbor, MI, then a few days in Philadelphia, then a weekend in D.C. followed by a few more days in Dallas, TX.


UMich Tower Clocks


Standing on the Keystone


Insidious Cuteness


Caleb and Andrea


Caroline with Cockroach


Such a cute little bug


Hope Diamond

 

Arizona Tour - August 2003

A road trip through north and eastern Arizona. Primarily, hiked the Bright Angel Trail at the Grand Canyon, but stopped at the Petrified Forest, the Painted Desert and Canyon de Chelly on the way back.


Battleship Rock


Lounging


Exiting the Side Canyon


Gorgeous Sunset


Petrified Chair


The Painted Desert


Canyon de Chelly


Canyon de Chelly #2


Canyon de Chelly #3


Rainbow on the way Home

 

 

Cross Country Trip (7000 miles, 4 metro areas) - July 2003

The summer that I drove 7,000 miles around the country in under 4 weeks. Notable stops were Philadelphia, southwest South Dakota, northeastern Wyoming, Seattle, San Francisco, Palo Alto CA, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, Conway AK and Winston-Salem NC.


Wall Drug, SD


Mt. Rushmore, SD


Posing with Dead Prez


Home State #1


Home State #2


Home State #3


Corvette Convention


Devil's Tower, WY


Two Devils


Aaron's Car


Prairie Dog


Couer d'Alene, ID


Drummer Fantasy


Seattle Ferrari


Seattle Skyline


Seattle Nightline


Mt. Shasta, CA


Frisco Houses


Stanford Boy


Apple Dork


CA Sunset


Hoover Dam, NV

 

 

Grand Canyon - May 2003

First trip to the Grand Canyon that summer, with recent Bryn Mawr College graduate Megan Bartley (and her friends Caitlin and Jarret).


Jarret, Megan + Caitlin


Hiking Down


Snack Break


South Rim Wall


Canyon Side


Three Mile House


Aaron's Feet


Power of Erosion


Caitlin's Cactus


Plateau Point


Photographing


Colorado River


Mighty River


Little Lizard


Cooling Off


In a Nook!

Haverford/Bryn Mawr 2003 Graduation

Megan graduated May 2003, so I flew out to see it. I also stopped by my own alma mater's commencement ceremony and bumped into some old friends.


BMC Convocation


Family in Pem Arch


Graduated!


Caitlin and Megan


Mother + Daughter


Sonia and Megan


Garden Party Dinner


Alma Mater


Commencement


Amy Ham


Will Goodson


Stef Kukora


Kip and Aaron


Sonia, "Hot Girl", and Megan


Trio


Dancing

 

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