Tag Archives: Travel

1/29/2020 – web project, work, tennis

Wednesday 

Spent too much time working with a plugin to add tables of contents to web pages here and on AmericanDelusions. Decided in the end to drop it here because of a conflict with Timeline. Also talked with Karen about my spreadsheet of travel events. She added some I had forgotten back in the early ‘70s.

FaceTime with kids in Leiden
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Tentative travel list without Karen’s edits:

June 1982 Karen, Jonathan & Mark take Green Tortoise bus from Harvard Sq. to Los Angeles
September 1983 Mark and Karen cross Canada by train
November 1984 Karen and kids go to Virgin Islands
March 1986 Puerto Rico
April 1986 Mark in Milan (work), Paris w Harvey Meyerson
May 1986 Karen to Dueseldorf (work) then Rome and Paris
March 1987 M & K in Jamaica
August 1987 Mark to Taiwan (work) then Melbourne
February 1988 M & K Big Bend National Park
June 1988 Family in Southest
December 1989 Karen in India
June 1990 M&K Washington DC, Virginia and West Virginia
March 1991 K&M Mexico
September 1991 Karen hikes White Mountains
June 1992 K&M travel with Ed and Meredith to Glacier National park
October 1992 Karen and Andrea trip to Southwest and Albuquerque Balloon Festival
March 1995 K&M go to Paris
April 1996 K&M got to Florida, east, west Everglades
October 1998 Karen and Mark travel to blues festival and elsewhere. Helena Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Memphis
December 1999 Karen goes to Vietnam
April 2000 Karen Jackson Mississippi wi Linda Larson
June 2002 Karen Mississippi w Linda Larson
May 2005 Singapore
May 2005 Korea wedding
June 2005 Jon and Nan wedding Cambridge
April 2008 K&M Savannah and Charleston
February 2009 K&M Florida, cousins’ dinner
December 2009 K&M Hong Kong & Vietnam
February 2010 K&M Florida, cousin’s dinner
February 2011 South-Alabama-Texas-New Mexico-Oklahoma-return
December 2011 HK – Bali
December 2012 Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Penang
February 2013 California and Arizona
December 2014 Australia with Jon, nan, kids, visit Torry and Jane
August 2015 Northern CA and Sapoznick wedding
December 2015 West Coast w AJL & kids
October 2016 Road Trip – Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Chicago
February 2017 Florida road trip by car, cousins’ dinner
March 2017 Leiden, Utrecht, Maastricht, Barcelona, et al
August 2017 Phillip Johnson House
August 2017 Art Exhibit Rogers
October 2017 Leiden, Cologne Freiburg, Brussels, Antwerp, et al
February 2018 Road trip – Florida, New Orleans, Gulf Coast, cousins’ dinner
May 2018 Netherlands-Lisbon visit with Torrey and Jane
June 2018 Bus Trip – NYC – Atlantic City – Cape May – Philadelphia – NYC
October 2018 Netherlands – Sicily
February 2019 Superbowl Cambridge, Florida Cousins
April 2019 Philadelphia and Washington DC
December 2019 Leiden, Vienna, Morocco

Met with Erin Marshall and Ryder Cooley at UTMH. Lengthy discussion of document standards and user roles and permissions. Have asked Troy Web for a roles and permissions matrix. They should be able to produce this easily. 

Seth and I talked with SOMML. After what seems to be more than a year of preparatory work they have actually started to sign up patients at Albany Med. Also spoke with David about upcoming meeting with CEO candidate Leon Greene next week.

Rare completely clear sky behind the Catskill Mountains on the way to tennis about 5:30pm.

Doubles at Total Tennis. Played quite well excepting serve which featured way too many double faults. Left knee bothered me towards the end of the session.

1/27/2020 – web project, UTMH, non-fiction book group

Monday 

Spent most of the morning working organizing the photos of our various trips. Increased list size and started a spreadsheet with dates and places. Also worked on finding a whole page template for the Projects pages  

Telecons with Yehuda Reiss and the NYRWA team. 

Surprisingly good turn out (9 people) and discussion tonight at Non-Fiction Book, especially so because most didn’t like the book Songs of America by Meachem. Fortunately the playlist I found to accompany the book was very good. 

4/13/2019 – breakfast, DOG sitting, drinks with Ruth and Michael

Saturday

Breakfast at Bob’s with short visit to ShopRite. CVS to pick up Tadalafil. Only took two 20 mg tablets at $106. See if it works. Gallery sitting rest of day. Karen went to her balance class at the library and then to Ctr for Photography at Woodstock for an opening.

Seen at ShopRite. Not sure why “paws” is better than “feet”?

Spent lots of time on 2011 road trip project here. Also a posting on AD of John Oliver’s pieces on the US justice system John Oliver’s pieces on the US justice system.

Emily and Michael Chameides came by the gallery at the end of the day. Left exactly at 5:30. Good talk with Michael about his supervisor role and other local politics and policies. Very smart guy, Low key, pleasant to boot. Since I speak with Emily regularly we barely spoke. They enjoyed the exhibit, LandEscapes.

Michael O’Hara and Ruth Tamaroff came for drinks at 6:30. Lots of talk about Michael’s two week visit to Rome in January. We are planning a visit in May.  He gave us very detailed descriptions of places he visited with suggestions along the way. I took three pages of notes. Very much fun visit with them. Ruth was a bit tippy on leaving. Michael seems impervious to drink.

3/23/2019 – breakfast, farmers market, travel photos, art opening

Saturday

Late breakfast at Bob’s. Whitney and Steve were there. Karen and I talked about a road trip in September. Went to Walmart. Karen arranged for my first shot of the new anti-shingles vaccine.

Worked on the photos from the Sicily trip in 2018. Over 1,400 from this Netherlands-Sicily trip in October. The iPhone time stamps and the camera time stamps are slightly out of synch causing troubles with the sequencing.

Went to art opening in late afternoon at Hudson Opera House. Too many people. Stopped at Red Dot for a drink and appetizers.

On the way home ran into Michael O’Hara outside his house. We stood over the construction site next door.Just as I noticed that the first floor joists are attached to a ledger board instead of sitting on top of the foundation Michael said that the contractor had poured the wall 18” too high. What a mess. Then Michael told the story of how the original building had collapsed because they had dug down 2 feet below the bottom of the original stone foundation. The clay subsoil gave way causing first a side wall then the front wall to slip in under the building. Big SNAFU. So far this is not an advertisement for competence on the part of the architect owners nor the contractors.

Watched the fourth in the Kavanaugh Q.C. British TV series from the mid ‘90s. Followed by another VEEP.

 

3/19/2019 – travel photos, non-fiction book club, tennis

Tuesday

Skipped UTMH team meeting. Spoke with David Ball about white paper. Chatted with David Ackerman.

Spent most of day working on reconstituting travel photos from as far back as 2008.

Went through a February 2011 trip south and west to New Mexico and back. Reminded me of how much I enjoy the driving around trips. This one started in Cambridge for the Super Bowl, then Washington DC, down along the Smoky Mountains, Chattanooga, Montgomery AL (19 degrees in the morning, New Orleans, St. Charles LA, Galveston, TX, Houston, Austin, LBJ homestead, Fredericksburg, Seminole Canyon St. Park, camping a few times, Carlsbad Canyon, Roswell NM, Santa Fe, Las Vegas, NM, Canyon TX, Oklahoma City, Memphis, then long drive back to Ed’s house. Approx. 21 days. 

RVW Bridge from Catskill Waterfront Park

Should do more of these. 

Scanned through 1/3 of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. This for the Non-Fiction Book group next Monday.  Too much detail, too long, not very interesting.

Tennis at night.

3/18/2019 – HAL, travel photos

Monday

Cold weather returns – 29 degrees at 7am.

Went to library at 10am to interview Tina Lesem for admin asst position. Very bright, verbal, experienced. Great candidate, Hope Emily hires her right away.

Spent most of day wrestling with travel photos. Re-organizing, downloading stuff from iCloud. The travel file is almost 100 GBs. Started to split it in half. 

Avoided talking with David Ackerman. Seth is away.

Found a pile of little travel notebooks. Earliest dates back to 1989 trip to Cascades. Read aloud over dinner the entries for our HK-Vietnam trip in 12/2008-1/2009. One note about how Vietnamese treat children was a reminder. “Everywhere people pick Jesse up almost without asking. He is paraded around and played with. Seems that there is communal ownership of babies.” This happened on the street in Hanoi and also in a restaraunt somewhere where the wait staff, not having much too do, came over and took Jesse away. We had lunch in leave and he was entertained.