New York to Seattle via: Half Moon Cay- Bahamas, Ft. Lauderdale- Florida, Cartagena-Columbia Panama Canal Puntarenas & Poas National Park- Costa Rica Puerto Quetzal-Guatemala Huatulco, Acapulco, Cabo San Lucas- Mexico Los Angeles- California Vancouver BC 18 April to 13 May 2007
Around New York City: Brooklyn Bridge, Ground Zero, Times Square, Rockefeller Center UN General Assembly, Museum of Natural History, Cross (in St. John the Divine) Statue of LibertyLaveta, saying goodbye to ManhattanThe M/S Noordam (at Half Moon Cay) On Board the Noordam: Elevator. Library, ClubroomPoolside Bar, Lounge, Promenade Deck So much wine… so little time. (Wine tasting on the Noordam) Half Moon Cay Determining our position the old fashioned way.Life aboardCarol with a mean looking alligator, Everglades– FloridaDeparting Port Everglades– FloridaCarol: American IdolModern Cartagena Cartagena: Old Town, Bolivar Square and Church of Pedro Claver Limon Bay, GatunLocks and Laveta and I at MirafloresLocks– Panama Canal Poas Volcano National Park– Costa Rica Shopping in Puerto Quetzal– GuatemalaFellow TravelersThey pray first… then jump. Cliff Divers- AcapulcoFinger Licking’ good! Acapulco.Lands End, Cabo San LucasDinner AboardThe Queen Mary- Long Beach HarborRodeo Drive in Beverly Hills- CALaveta and Carol, The Getty Museum, Los AngelesReflections of Carol (and Me) Getty MuseumEarly Morning Arrival in Seattle
RV West 2006
The 5th Wheel belongs to Jim and Carol, the Motor Home is ours. (Photo taken just north of Monument Valley)
Departing Tacoma, Washington State, 14 September 2006Carol and Laveta – Coeur D’ Alene, IdahoAt the Continental Divide, WyomingBear genitalia (at our RV park in West Yellowstone) Old Faithful– 15 minutes lateBison fording the Yellowstone RiverMt. Rushmore National MonumentLaveta- near the entrance of Wind Cave National Park, SDThe Crazy Horse monument, under construction, Black Hills, SDMe- Rapid City, South DakotaA Picnic with Obi-Wan (Jim) in the Black HillsThe Devil’s Tower Wyoming We hiked all the way around.Garden of the Gods, Colorado SpringsHats: Me, Laveta, Carol, Jim – Colorado SpringsPikes Peak via cog train, Colorado SpringsSt. Francis Cathedral and downtown art, Santa Fe, New MexicoBandelier National Monument, New MexicoLaveta & Fat Man, Bradbury Science Museum, Los AlamosAT-400A Pit storage-transportation container cutaway, Los AlamosRest stop near Lemitar, New MexicoMission San Miguel, SocorroAt the Owl Bar & Grill, San Antonio, New MexicoRV life, San AntonioCarol, Lincoln County New Mexico (home of Billy the Kid)` Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico. We walked down and around- about 2 1/2 hours, then took the elevator (750 ft.) back to the surface.Texas is not the issue here (GWB is)Guadalupe Mountains National Park, TexasWow- no feet! White Sands National Monument, NMMe and Laveta again- White SandsThe Trinity Site (in White Sands Missile Range New Mexico) where the first nuclear explosion took place, on 16 July,1945. It’s only open to the public two days a year. The House is The McDonald ranch house where the Plutonium pit was assembled with its initiator (neutron generator) There was lots of security at the site- guess they didn’t want anyone to get lost.Thunderstorm, near four-corners, Colorado (one handed shot while driving) Mesa Verde National Park, ColoradoArches National Park, UtahThe just magnificent, Monument Valley, Navajo Nation, ArizonaBrice Canyon National Park, Utah The geological features are called "Hoodoos" Zion National Park Utah.Jim – early morning, Ely NevadaOn US-50, Nevada.Burns RV Park and adjacent (across the street) countryside, Burns Oregon.The Three Sisters (& Jim’s trailer) on Hwy-20, OregonBridge over the Columbia at our RV park, The Dales, Oregon
—-We arrived back home in Tacoma (University Place) on 22 October 2006—
Last Day! Special BBQ lunch at the plant Quality Assurance Department group photoGoing out the door for the last time.New license plate frames!
Wine tasting in Rutherford (Napa Valley) California (again)
By car
early March 2006
Parked on the Rutherford Cross RoadLaveta and mosaic, Rancho Caymus courtyardBV VineyardsNiebaum-Coppola vineyardsNeibaum-Coppola (the old Inglenook chateau)Stained glass above the staircaseCaptain Niebaum’s 1880’s tasting room in the chateauVery upscale tasting (note the decades of dust on the bottles)Shopping for wine at the chateauOld winepress at the Robert Mondavi winerySign reads: "Siskiyou Mtn. Summit, Elev. 4310 ft. Highest Elev. on I-5"
A MODERN AEGEAN ODYSSEY
Greece, the Greek Islands of Mykonos, Rhodes, Patmos, & Ephesus in Turkey 26 August – 6 September 2005
It was a quick week, a few days visiting relatives in Merced (San Joaquin Valley) before heading westward over Pacheco Pass then up 101 though the bay area and San Francisco, then on to Rutherford in Napa Valley wine country.
North of the Golden GateLaveta, window shopping in downtown NapaOur room in the Rancho Caymus hotel, RutherfordCourtyard at Rancho CaymusVineyard on Rutherford Cross RoadFrog’s Leap Vineyards (Laveta’s favorite)Wine cellar at Frog’s Leap
Chuck’s Photo Album (2000 – 2004)
Work Photo’s 2000 > 2003: (1) At my desk (2) With a 30,000 lb. testing Machine. (3) Burn testing a radioisotope transportation container. (4) Sharon (my daughter) programming a data acquisition recorder.Loading the pressure vessel- in search of the illusive Bulk Modulus. June 2000At the Rally (Wing Ding 2000)- Billings Montana, July 2000 <link to trip journal (PDF)>Lake Crescent, Olympic Range WA. Jim took picture. August 2000Rush hour in the Olympic Rain Forest– Sept 2000"Spirit of Washington" dinner train. Renton WA. May 2001Taking time out between performances, Shakespeare Festival, Ashland Oregon, June 2001Olympia Washington July 2001 (Same pose back in 1967!)1- Jim at Yosemite Lake , Merced CA 2- Main Street- Snelling CA (Northeast of Merced), August 2001 3- Jim and I, above Lake Tenaya – Yosemite National Park. August 2001 4- Jim and the bikes, at the Reno Hilton, Reno NV. August 2001
Los Angeles, Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, Cabo San Lucas. October 2001
Self portrait (with Laveta) "The James House" B&B, Port Townsend WA, April 2002
Brain Bucket
California and Nevada- by car this time, with Jim & Carol, September 2002
Washington DC, October 2002: (1) Laveta in front of the White House (2) Looking up at the capital dome (3) Einstein & Laveta, at the National Academy of Sciences (4) Smithsonian Museum of Flight. The first plane to fly across the United States- nonstop, in 1923 . [I knew the pilot, Col. John A. Macready who was my next-door neighbor in Merced California, 1957-1958]The day before my meeting with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission at their Rockville, MD (White Flint-1) headquarters, October, 2002. Laveta & I took the subway. I went again the the following morning (wearing a suit) for my presentation.Laveta and the Alien. Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, October 2002!- 2 – Autumn in Tacoma 3 – Laveta- Thanksgiving Dinner, 2002Yes, even idols exhibit Male Pattern Baldness. Seymour Conservatory- Tacoma WA
Hawaii, Fanning Island Vacation 2003
My 60th Birthday at work with Laveta, March 2003Problems, Problems…. March 2003
An evening at Lake Quinault Lodge WA, April 2003
Bocci Ball: Useless Bay, Whidbey Island. Mike, Jason, Carol, Laveta, July 2003"The Power of Two" – Tacoma Cemetery, October 2003At work- with a visiting Space Shuttle astronaut
A Week In New Mexico, September 2003
"Pink Rigidity" A very pink, Rigid Polyurethane foam. Polymerized in mid-pour by our research chemist. Christmas at work 2003An afternoon at the Tacoma Symphony- Laveta & Carol, March 2004
Our 40th Anniversary- at Fort Worden State Park
Motoring around Scotland, May 2004
Seattle Laveta Me Benaroya’s Grand Lobby
On July 15, 2004 Laveta, Sharon, Russ and I went to the Seattle Symphony in Benaroya Hall to see The Lord of The Rings Symphony– Howard Shore conducting. After dinner at the Pike Brewery, we walked through the Pike Place Market before the performance. Great evening!
Strange hair day- at work, July 2004
PDF, 1pp September 16th – October 2nd 2004 Berlin, Rome, Venice, Lake Garda, Florence, Pisa.
In the fall of 2004 I traveled to Berlin to present a research paper at the 14th International Symposium on the "Packaging and Transportation of Radioactive Materials" (PATRAM-2004).
The paper, a collaborative effort with co-investigator Zelda Iams and titled: "Thermal Assault and Polyurethane Foam – Evaluating Protective Mechanisms" is available here: Thermal Assault-PDF
Six of us set out from Seattle that September: Glenn, Gisela, and Me (with Laveta) on the 16th, followed by Floyd and Zelda on the 18th. At the conclusion of the conference Laveta and I flew on to Italy for an eight day tour (vacation). And yes, we all had our little adventures…
Acceptance letter from PATRAM Paper Review CommitteeThe Estrel, our hotel (and PATRAM conference center) in BerlinLaveta drinking Cola Lite in the lobby of the EstrelLaveta, Glenn and Gisela waiting for the S-Bahn at Sonnenallee stationThe Siegessäule "Goldese" on Straße des 17 Juni in the TiergartenLaveta at Den Brandenburger Tor (the Brandenburg Gate) The Reichstag (The dome is on the roof).Laveta and Gisela walking along Unter Den Linden Checkpoint Charleyon Friedrichstraße– as viewed from the American Sector Tuesday mid-morning program in the "Paris" Room"The presentation: Zelda’s photo (yes- the shiny bald head is mine)Laveta and Tabby at Sanssouci Palace, PotsdamTicket to a memorable dinner in the Deutsches TechnikmuseumDinner at the Museum, Laveta and Zelda- Reichsbahn locomotive at right.Dinner cruse through Berlin on the river SpreeAttending the PATRAM Banquet. Our table is in center right foreground.
It seemed that my presentation in Berlin of Thermal Assault and Polyurethane Foam earned a PATRAM "Distinguished Oral Presentation Award" given by the AOKI Memorial Foundation- established by the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum.
There were 227 papers presented over the course of the weeklong symposium- so the award was indeed unexpected. Of course this could be hard on my coworkers- as I may never be humble again!
Package shipping labelAward letterPlaque front and rear
In October of 2007, the PATRAM Symposium in Miami, Florida presented the awards for the 2004 Berlin papers. (These conferences occur every three years.) I had retired in 2006 but the company was kind enough to pay my way to Miami to be recognized as an award winner at the banquet. My daughter Sharon went also (for work). Of course I hardly keep Laveta away!
Miami and the Marriott Doralhotel- site of the SymposiumDinner at the Versailles– Miami ( great Cuban food)Sharon and RichA wonderful dinner at the Vyzcaya Museum – courtesy of AREVAThe final Banquet Night program, 25 October 2007Banquet Night at the LegendsBallroom at the Marriott. Sharon socializing.At the BanquetAward winners from the previous PATRAM-2004 in Berlin (That’s me on the right)
Berlin
Berlin, Rome, Venice, Lake Garda, Florence, Pisa September 16th – October 2nd 2004
In the fall of 2004 I traveled to Berlin to present a research paper at the 14th International Symposium on the "Packaging and Transportation of Radioactive Materials" (PATRAM). The paper, a collaborative effort with co-investigator Zelda Iams and titled: "Thermal Assault and Polyurethane Foam – Evaluating Protective Mechanisms" is available here: Thermal Assault-pdf
Six of us set out from Seattle that September: Glenn, Gisela, and Me (with Laveta) on the 16th, followed by Floyd and Zelda on the 18th. At the conclusion of the conference Laveta and I flew on to Italy for an eight day tour (vacation). And yes, we all had our little adventures…
For the full story including more photo’s, the "Distinguished Oral Presentation Award" and my trip to Miami to receive it, see: (PATRAM-2004 Berlin)
