This is the coolest sports venue I have ever been to, Safeco Field in Seattle. I love how the stadium opens on to the city skyline, and it also has a great deck overlooking Puget Sound. When I visited in September of 2005, I barely watched the game, instead enjoying a great sunset over the sound and then a dinner of fish and chips, not your usual ballpark fare!
The Salzkammergut is an area of mountains and lakes surrounding Salzburg, Austria. Tone and I took a tour of sites from the movie "The Sound of Music" here in 1998. The temperature reached well into the 90s, which was a record for the region.
This is a photo from Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, located along Lake Michigan, West of Traverse City, Michigan. This is a beautiful area, especially on brilliant, sunny days like the one I had in April of 2005 when I visited.
This photo encapsulates Key West. A Motor scooter and the Conch Republic Sign, two things you see a lot of in Key West.
This is the worst photo of me I have ever seen. This is my school picture from my freshman year of high school. I had my mom curl my hair in the morning so I could comb it back and it would stay back all day. Something obviously went seriously wrong here.
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The Whitsunday Islands off Australia's East Coast have easily the most beautiful beaches I have ever been to. This on is white silica sand, which is almost like powder. The water was over 80 degrees!
This is a picture of Janeen & I, with my brother Troy and his wife, Adrienne, on the right, and my sister Lindsay and her husband Adam (Nice face Adam!) on the left from our wedding.
Today's picture is of the modern skyline of Singapore, a small city-state in Southeast Asia that we visited on our cruise in 1996. The city was very clean, a reputation we had heard about before we got there.
This is a picture of tiny Troy, Idaho (pop. 798). I lived here for two months during 2005. This is the main street through town. I lived in the last building on the right.
This is the very remote Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Southern Arizona, bordering Mexico. This is from my visit on a scorching hot day in May of 2004.
This is a photo of my mom and dad in Antarctica. They have been to all seven continents. Guess where I get my travel bug from!
This picture is from March of 2005, six months before Hurricane Katrina devistated and forever changed New Orleans. I call these photos I take of myself Idiot Photos, and there are hundreds of them on the travel pages on my website.
From 1997 to 2001, I lived on Troost Street in Forest Park, Illinois. Tone and I lived above the Murrays, (Tim, Denise, Kimberly & Gavin) and Candy Kirkpatrick (on the right) lived in the coach house out back. I enjoyed living near these people.
In March of 2000, I took these five guys to the Netherlands, Belguim and Germany. This picture is from our last day in Amsterdam. The guys are, from left to right, Rickey, Pete, Josh, me, Charlie & Scott..JPG)
This is Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site in Eastern Colorado. I visited there on my Southwest 2003 trip. This fort was important becasue it was the only fort along the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail, which ran from Missouri to New Mexico.
This is the small town of Arcadia, Michigan from a small plane flight I took over the area in 1999. Camp Arcadia where I worked during the summers of 1994 & 1995 is located on the left side of the picture right on the lakefront.
This is a photo from the Cu Chi Tunnels outside Siagon, Vietnam. These tunnels were used to fight the American army during the Vietnam War.
This is Janeen and I on our sunset/dolphin cruise that we took when we visited our parents in Fort Myers Beach in Florida in February of 2008.
I got my blazer stuck in the sand dunes near the shore of Lake Michigan in April of 2005. I overestimated how useful the four wheel drive would be. I love my profetic bumper sticker "Barry Bonds is a Cheater".
This is Antelope Island, located in the Great Salt Lake of Northern Utah. I particularly like this photo because of the rainbow in the background. It was sunny on the island, but rainy on the mainland creating the conditions for this great photo.
This picture is from Cradle Mountain- Lake St. Clair National Park in Central Tasmania. I spent seven amazing day driving around the Apple Isle, a place few Australians and even fewer tourists visit.
This picture is from November of 2006, when I visited this National Monument in Northeast Iowa right along the Mississippi River..JPG)
These are the Spanish Steps in Rome from my visit in July of 1998 with Tone and Stan.
I've been to Devil's Tower four times (1983, 2001, 2002, and 2006). The pictures from 1983 are very blurry, there was fog which covered the tower in 2001, and it rained hard when I visited in 2006. This photo is from a picture perfect day in May of 2002, when I visited with Stan Gerdes on our way back East from Glacier National Park.
This is a picture of the Immanuel Lutheran Varsity Boys Basketball Team of 1995-1996. We were the state runner-up that year. I have never been more proud of a group of students in my life. This is my greatest memory from my three years of teaching..JPG)
This is a picture of Zion Canyon in Zion National Park in Southern Utah. This may be a cool photo but it does not do this spectacular canyon justice.
Today is my 36th birthday. As the caption says, this is my photo when I was 6 weeks old. What a cute little guy- what happened?!?!?!?.JPG)
This is me snorkeling on The Great Barrier Reef in Australia. I don't usually snorkel, but this was truly a once in a lifetime chance.
This is the Upper Falls at Tahquamenon Falls State Park in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I visited there in August of 2002. I'm sure I will post a picture of the lower falls later..JPG)
This church stands on a hilly in a neighborhood called Monemarte, which overlooks Paris. This was taken on my birthday in 1998, 10 years ago from this coming Monday. It was a spetacular day, sunny, about 80 degrees and there were a couple of guitar players sitting on the steps out front playing and leading a sing-a-long. It is one of my most vibrant memories from that trip.
