The document provides details about the author's retirement activities and travels after retiring from teaching in 1996. It discusses kayaking in Lake Superior, hiking in Marquette, golfing, trips to Europe including Portugal, Morocco, Spain and Germany, a Colorado River rafting trip, visits to London and Wales, and Elderhostel programs in Savannah and Texas. Locations, sights seen, and some historical context are provided for each trip over several years.

1. Emeriti office in
Youngchild Hall
Teaching years in
Stephenson Hall
Retire –1996
work…work…work golf…golf…golf

2. A Lake Superior kayak adventure was how I began my
retirement - from Big Bay to Presque Isle.
We started by paddling from Lake
Independence to Lake Superior via
Iron River.

3. Scenes along the way…
Arrow shows nonconformity between
Archean below and younger Precambrian
Jacobsville Sandstone.

4. Granot Loma is a National Historic Landmark begun by Louis and Marie
Kauffman in 1919.

5. The Little Presque Isle tract is often called the crown jewel of Lake Superior, with its
beautiful sand beaches, rugged shoreline cliffs, heavily timbered forests, and unmatched
public views.
We paddled through the gap
between the mainland and
Little Presque Isle. It is shallow
enough that one can wade to
the island from the shore.

7. Finished at Presque Isle Park

8. Hiking is another popular activity around Marquette.
View from Sugar Loaf
First view of Sugar Loaf trail

10. Beach walking is another frequent activity

11. Golf at the Marquette Country Club

12. 1997 – Adventures in Europe
Met Al Swanson at LaGuardia and flew to Zurich where we met Simon Estes.

13. High Alpine Excursion
A rotating gondola!!

14. • Salzburg was the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus
Salzburg Mozart. In the mid-20th century, the city was the
setting for parts of the American musical and film The
Sound of Music.

15. Salzburg (Werfen) Castle

16. Vienna
Simon Estes played Escamillo, the Toreador role. He provided our tickets
for a wonderful performance of Carmen.

17. Hotel Sacher
The Original Sacher-Torte has
been the most famous cake in
the world since 1832 and the
original recipe a well-kept
secret of our hotel.
Schönbrunn Palace is a former imperial summer
residence in Vienna, Austria.

18. Budapest, Hungary
This panorama is from the hilly Buda side; on the far side of the Danube,
Pest is flat and is home to the Parliament and the main business section.
St.Mathias Cathedral
in Buda
Parliament
in Pest

19. Florence, Italy
A distinctive feature of Florence's skyline is
the dome of the cathedral (Duomo), Santa
Maria del Fiore.
octagonal dome

20. Uffizi Gallery
Pietà by Michelangelo Michelangelo’s David

21. Perugia
Left the train at Perugia
and rented a car. Assisi
And Gubbio were the
hill towns we visited in
Umbria.

22. Assisi is a town and commune of Italy in the province
Assisi of Perugia, in the Umbria region and on the western
flank of Monte Subasio.
View of the medieval city of Assisi, with the Duomo in the center and
Basilica di Santa Chiara on the right

23. Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi

24. Gubbio
Gubbio is famous among geologists and paleontologists as the discovery place of
what was at first called the "Gubbio layer,” a sedimentary layer enriched in iridium
that is exposed by a roadcut outside of town. This thin, dark band of sediment
marks the K–T boundary, between the Cretaceous and Tertiary geological periods
roughly 65 million years ago, and was formed by infalling debris from the gigantic
meteor impact responsible for the mass extinction of the dinosaurs. Its iridium, a
heavy metal rare on Earth's surface, is plentiful in extraterrestrial material such as
comets and asteroids. It also contains small globules of glassy material called
tektites, formed in the initial impact. Discovered at Gubbio, the K–T boundary is
also visible at many places all over the world. The characteristics of this boundary
layer support the theory that a devastating meteorite impact, with accompanying
ecological and climatic disturbance, was directly responsible for the Cretaceous-
Tertiary extinction event.

26. San Gimignano
San Gimignano, known as the City of Beautiful Towers, is a classic
medieval walled hill town in Tuscany, Italy. San Gimignano's historic
center is a UNESCO world heritage site for its architecture.

27. Verona – From Florence to Verona our train passed through the area where the
10th Mtn Division defeated the German army. Brother Will was in the 10th during these battles.
• From Naples, Italy, the 10th Mountain set sights on routing the
Germans from Mount Belvedere. Mount Belvedere provided
the key to advancement into the Po Valley and securing Mount
Belvedere depended on routing German artillery entrenched on
Riva Ridge. The assault on Riva Ridge required climbing rather
than skiing. On the night of February 18, 1945, companies of
the 86th Regiment scaled Riva Ridge surprising the Germans.
• The capture of Riva Ridge enabled the 85th and 87th
Regiments to move on Mount Belvedere and the adjacent
peaks. In capturing these peaks, the 10th Mountain suffered
over 900 casualties. The next major assaults were in March on
Mount della Spe and in April at Tole. Victories paved the way to
advance on the PO Valley. By April 20th the 10th Mountain
Division entered the valley, and after heavy fighting the
German Army in Italy surrendered on May 2, 1945. In the
campaign in Italy, the 10th took heavy losses with 4,888
casualties including 978 killed in action.

28. Scenes from Verona. Note where Romeo and Juliet allegedly
performed the balcony scene.

29. Upon our return to Zurich, we had the opportunity to see the Hale-
Bopp comet Hale-Bopp had its closest approach to Earth on
March 22, 1997 at a distance of 1.315 AU.
Comet Hale-Bopp over
Zabriskie Point,
Death Valley

30. London - 1998
• We shared an apartment near Russell Square with Mary Poulson and Greta Rogers.
We could see the British Museum from our window.
Notable experiences
Included two tours led by the
founder of the London Walks:
Legal London and Dickens’
London.

31. Chester
• We visited Chester and made a quick trip to Wales.
Chester Cathedral is the mother
church of the Church of England.

32. Betws-y-Coed
• Betws-y-Coed is North Wales' most popular inland resort. It is where the
River Conwy meets its three tributaries flowing from the west, the Llugwy,
the Lledr and the Machno. Much of it was built in Victorian times and it is
the principal village of the Snowdonia National Park.

33. Colorado River Raft Trip
• Trip was led by John Warme of Colorado School of mines.
Locations in subsequent slides are given in miles
from the starting point which is at Lee’s Ferry.

34. Mile 61.25
The Little Colorado River’s (right)'s confluence with the
Colorado River (center). Note that the Little Colorado is
a light brown color caused by recent cloudbursts, while
the Colorado is an emerald green. When Powell and
his crew arrived here in 1869, it was this color of the
river that they saw, while the Colorado's green color is
caused by Glen Canyon dam trapping sediment.

35. Mile 156.25
Havasu Creek enters

36. Vulcan’s Throne and Lava Falls, near Mile 179. Vulcan’s Throne is a 700 feet
high cinder cone that erupted along the Toroweap fault about 10,000 years ago.

37. Mile 186.9 - Whitmore Helipad – helicopter to ranch where small aircraft flew
us back to Lee’s Ferry.

38. Golf at Arrowhead – Littleton, CO

39. 1999 - Portugal, Morocco, Gibraltar and Spain
• Another adventure owing to John Warme. He was professor with the carbonate study
group at Colorado School of Mines. They study recent environments as analogs for
ancient carbonate sequences. In 1999 Morocco was the site and Al Swanson and I
joined the group.
• We first went to Lisbon, Portugal.
Drove to this quaint fishing
Village on the Algarve before
returning to Lisbon to fly to
Casa Blanca.

40. Morocco
The souk in Marrakesh
Ksar Swari is a palace located
just outside Marrakesh

42. Domes and basins in the Anti-Atlas Mountains
near Tadakoust, Morocco

43. Fossil- and mineral-diggers have
made Morocco famous for its trilobites
and its Orthoceras-rich limestones.
Polished slabs of black limestone
streaked with cone-like Orthoceras
fossils are sold as curios or fashioned
into coffee tables, ornamental sinks
and even bathtubs. Finely prepared
Moroccan trilobites can be found in
the collections of museums great and
small, as well as in the homes of
innumerable amateur paleontologists.
And the country’s colorful minerals,
such as bright-red vanadinite and
silvery skutterudite, are also the pride
of many a great collection worldwide.

44. Tangier to Gibraltar

45. Most of the Rock is the Jurassic Gibraltar Limestone
Formation. It is riddled with caves and disappointed me as
a symbol for a strong insurance company.

46. Spain
• The formation of the Iberian Peninsula was completed following
what is called 'the most important process in the geological
history of southern Europe', in other words, an Alpine-
Himalayan tectonic movement, which occurred in the Tertiary
era.
• Almost the entire morphology of mainland Spain was formed in
the Tertiary era. The Pyrenees, the Andalusian, Cantabrian,
Iberian and Sierra Morena mountain ranges, as well as the
sedimentary basins of the Ebro and the Guadalquivir rivers
were formed. The uplifting occurred by means of faults in the
Galician massif, defining the Central Mountains and the Toledo
mountains, and therefore, the unevenness that exists between
the two plateau. The marks left by these tectonic movements
have fundamentally remained until present day. It can therefore
be said that they gave rise to the geography of the peninsula
as it is known today.

47. Costa del Sol
Nerja, Costa del Sol

48. Granada
• The Alhambra, a Moorish citadel and palace, is in Granada. It is one of the most
famous items of the Islamic historical legacy that makes Granada a hot spot among
cultural and tourist cities in Spain.

49. Savannah Elderhostel – January, 2000
Each year Savannah attracts millions
of visitors, who enjoy the city's
architecture and historic buildings: the
birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low
(founder of the Girl Scouts), the Telfair
Academy of Arts and Sciences (one of
the South's first public museums), the
First African Baptist Church (one of the
oldest African American Baptist
congregations in the United States),
Temple Mickve Israel (the third-oldest
synagogue in America), and the
Central of Georgia Railway
roundhouse complex (the oldest
standing antebellum rail facility in
America).

50. Austin and Judy
Boncher joined us
on this adventure.
Part of the
Elderhostel was held
on the island and
part in Savannah.
Subjects ranged
from coastal flora
and fauna to history,
music and visits to
locations shown in
Midnight in the
Garden of Good and
Evil. A wonderful
experience.

51. 2000 - London
Leeds Castle from across the moat
This castle and its grounds are now a leisure destination in the
county of Kent. The castle grounds have an aviary, a maze, a
grotto, a golf course and what may be the world's only museum
of dog collars.

53. Marble Arch
We attended a trial at Old Bailey.

54. Portobello Market
• Portobello Road is a street in the Notting Hill district in west London. On
Saturdays it is home to Portobello Road Market, one of London's notable
street markets.

55. Blenheim Palace is home to the 11th Duke and Duchess of
Marlborough and the birthplace of Sir Winston.
Situated in Woodstock,
just 8 miles from Oxford,
the Palace was created a
World Heritage site in
1987.

56. Oxford

57. Wales
• We met Carol’s cousin in Cardiff to follow-up on the family history. Carol’s Grandfather, David W.
Fletcher was a ‘nonconformist’ preacher at Carmel Baptist in Maerdy (1903-1905). Carol’s mother
lived in the house we saw; she was one of 9 children. Fletcher was such an impressive preacher
that the Mellon family brought them all over to Pittsburgh, first class in 1907.
After serving Welsh community churches in Pennsylvania and
Ohio he took a pulpit in Des Moines. He then studied law and
rose to be the most prominent criminal lawyer in Des Moines.

58. At Brynmawr, we went to St. Mary’s church yard and saw the graves of
Carol’s Great Grandparents and Aunt, Joseph and Sarah Jayne and
Maude (2 years and 6 months).
On to Llanelli to view Pant-y-Bailey, the Jayne estate and the parish
church. Here we saw where John Jayne and his wife, Elizabeth and sons
John and Basil are buried.
The Jayne side of the
family produced Bishop
Francis John Jayne, who
was Bishop of Chester for
25 years.

59. Rev Francis John Jayne (1845 –1921), was a British bishop and academic.
Born in Pant-y-beiliau, Llanelli, he was educated at Rugby School and Wadham
College, Oxford. He took his B.A. in 1868 and M.A. in 1870. He was a Fellow of
Jesus College, Oxford between 1868 and 1873. From 1879 to 1886, Jayne was
Principal of St. David's College, a university institution in the small Welsh town of
Lampeter. During his time there, he steered the institution through the difficult years
following the 1880 Aberdare report on intermediate and higher education in Wales.
The report recommended that the Colleges at Aberystwyth and Lampeter be united
to form one institution, but Jayne fought the plan and retained St. David's College's
independence.
A devoutly religious man, Jayne left Lampeter to become an Anglican vicar in Leeds.
He became Bishop of Chester in 1889, a position he held until 1919. He died at
Oswestry, and was buried at Bowdon, Cheshire.
From Wikipedia.

60. Cardiff
Castle Coch
Castle Caerphilly
Late nineteenth-century 'fairytale'-style
castle, built on medieval remains. Caerphilly Castle is one of the great
medieval castles of western Europe.

61. Llandaff Cathedral

62. Back to London
• We attended a lecture, ”Almost Like a Whale” by Steve Jones, the author of a book of
the same name. It was held in the Darwin Building of University College, London.
• An update of The Origin, it included many things of which Darwin knew nothing such as
AIDS, genes, DNA, and cladistics, as well as a wealth of ecological data, on ants.

63. Golf
Timberstone, 17th hole. The course is built beside Pine Mountain
ski area, Iron Mountain, MI. It is hilly, tough and gorgeous.

64. 2001 – Germany, Denmark and Sweden
Frankfurt to Copenhagen by rail
immediately after a red-eye flight was a
struggle. A look at the map shows that we
had a lot of bridges over the Baltic Sea.

65. Copenhagen
Tivoli Gardens, the old
entertainment park
The Glyptotek was started
by the son of the man who
founded the Carlsberg
Brewery. The Glyptoteket
has Egyptian and Renoir
collections, as well as
Danish paintings from the
"Golden Age" in the 19th.
century.

66. Rosenborg Castle

67. Sweden
We made our journey from Copenhagen to Malmö in a breeze, taking only 35 minutes. It
is the longest road and rail bridge-tunnel in Europe (it is approximately 10 miles long)
connecting Denmark and Sweden, and has one of the longest cable-stayed main spans in
the world, at 1608 feet.

68. Stockholm

69. More Stockholm
St. James Church A glimpse of Gamla Stan Stockholm City Hall

70. • Vasa was a Swedish warship that was built from 1626 to
1628. The ship foundered and sank after sailing less
than a 2 km into her maiden voyage on 10 August 1628.
She was salvaged with a largely intact hull on 24 April 1961. She was housed in a temporary museum
called Wasavarvet ("The Wasa Shipyard") until 1987, and was then moved to the Vasa Museum in
Stockholm.

71. Helsingborg
Kärnan is the most famous
landmark of Helsingborg, Sweden.
It has been there for some 600
years. As the tower is on a hill the
views are quite spectacular over
the narrow sound toward the sister
city Helsingor in Denmark

72. Sofiero Castle in Helsingborg, was one of the Swedish royal family's country
mansions, located 5 km north of Helsingborg. It was originally a Scanian farm,
bought in 1864 by Crown Prince Oscar of Sweden and his wife Sophia of Nassau.
The first one-story palace was completed in 1865. It was expanded to its current size
between 1874 and 1876, after crown prince Oscar had been crowned king Oscar II of
Sweden and Norway.

73. Helsingborg to Bremen to Koblenz
Ferry from Helsingborg to train. Spent overnight in Bremen.

74. Koblenz
Situated in the picturesque landscape of the Rhine and Moselle and surrounded
by four low mountain ranges is the 2000-year-old town of Koblenz. It has an
abundance of cultural monuments and historic buildings.
Our three country rail pass included the Rhine boat trip. We started here and
transferred to the train at Rudesheim. From there it was a short train ride to Frankfurt.

75. Cologne Cathedral

76. Black Wolf Run – River Course
June 13, 2001
It was an unforgettable day. We arrived in time to warm-up at the driving
range, chipping green and putting green. I was hitting well and felt excited and
hopeful. The weather was humid, over eighty degrees but a breeze kept us
comfortable. The foursome members attributed my strong play to the new Tilley hat.
I hit every fairway and only lost two balls. I had really worried about losing the new
balls because 12 holes have water. I shot an 89 with 7 pars. We even played skins
and I carried the day as my partner shot 113; the opponents scores were 92 and
129.

77. Scottsdale
The Phoenician Resort and its
golf courses – Camelback Mountain
is ever present.

78. Casa Blanca and art night

79. Casa Blanca
Apache Trail and Roosevelt Dam Trip

80. Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Sheraton Hacienda del Mar

81. Ocean Course

82. Desert Course

83. Course, designed by Tom Weiskopf
Ocean Course - Nicklaus Design

84. Stones in the Mudd - 2006

88. Golden Wedding Anniversary

91. Las Vegas

92. Valley of Fire State Park

93. Death Valley

94. You can’t tell by the pictures but the four of us
had coughs and sore throats during this trip.

95. Utah

96. Zion
The geology of the Zion and Kolob
canyons area includes 9 formations
that together represent 150 million
years of mostly Mesozoic-aged
sedimentation. At various periods in
that time warm, shallow seas, streams,
Located at the junction of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and
ponds and lakes, vast deserts, and dry
Mojave Desert regions, the park's unique geography and variety of
near-shore environments covered the
life zones allow for unusual plant and animal diversity. Numerous
area. Uplift associated with the
plant species as well as 289 species of birds, 75 mammals
creation of the Colorado Plateaus lifted
(including 19 species of bat), and 32 reptiles inhabit the park's four
the region 10,000 feet starting 13
life zones: desert, riparian, woodland, and coniferous forest.
million years ago.
Common plant species include cottonwood, Cactus, Datura,
Juniper, Pine, Boxelder, Sagebrush, yucca , and various willows

98. Bryce

99. Escalante
Rainbow Country Bed & Breakfast is
located near some of the most spectacular
slot canyons found anywhere in the world
and all of these are found in the Grand
Staircase Escalante National Monument.

100. Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument encompasses a vast area
of multi-hued cliffs, twisting canyons, expansive plateaus and all manner of buttes,
pinnacles and mesas.
The Grand Staircase is made
up of five tilted, southward,
facing escarpments called
stairsteps. The stairsteps rise
5500' and range from the North
Rim Grand Canyon through
Zion to the uppermost riser, the
pink cliffs of Bryce Canyon.

101. Back to Scottsdale

102. Eagle Creek
Greywalls #2

103. Golf courses at Lawsonia - Links and Woodlands

104. Sedona - 2009

105. The Chapel of the Holy Cross is a Roman
Catholic chapel built into the mesas of
Sedona, Arizona, which was inspired and
commissioned by sculptor Marguerite
Brunswig Staude, student of Frank Lloyd
Wright. Richard Hein was chosen as
project architect.

106. Verde Santa Fe… It’s Where We Stayed!
Realty On the Greens at Verde Santa Fe was established in
August, 2010. We offer an onsite full service Brokerage
specializing in selling the homes that comprise the Verde
Santa Fe master planned golf course community located just
minutes from Sedona.

107. WaNiPa – Here every summer since 1946