| Only the Past is Real | a Bertrand Russell essay |
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| God’s Utility Function | (PDF) a Richard Dawkins essay – offsite |
| Cadence and Reflection | collected poems – some of my favorites |
| Chief Seattle’s Masterpiece | Chief Seattle’s 1884 oration – simply marvelous! |
| Words of Wisdom part I and part II | collected quotes |
| Humanistic Adductions | collected quotes |
| Best of The Worst | strange but true – country music song titles – offsite |
| Sharon and Russ | our daughter and son-in-law’s site |
| Seattle/Tacoma Area | Webcams, Traffic Links and Weather |
| ** The following are some of my stories, journals, technical papers, reflections etc…** | |
| Kinship | (PDF) short story – fiction |
| The Ovarian Conspiracy | (PDF) weird short story – fiction |
| Epiphany at Arroyo Blanco | (PDF) short story – fiction |
| Love, Embalmed In Sorrowing Hearts (PDF) | a eulogy for mom |
| Fire, Smoke… & Travel by Air | at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC |
| Foam for Impact & Thermal Protection (PDF) | protecting nuclear materials from transportation accidents |
| Thermal Assault & Polyurethane foam | my presentation in Berlin and awards banquet in Miami; also |
| (PDF) award winning research paper | |
| Trial By Fire | roasting a Plutonium waste transportation container |
| Spaceflight, Volleyball and Beer | at the Gossamer Spacecraft Workshop, Oxnard, CA |
| Rapid Disassembly | Quantico Marine Base, high explosives… and a pregnant spook |
| Roasting the Boss (gently) (PDF) | (MP3, 13min) |
| The Road To Metamorphosis | (PDF) the anatomy of a career |
| From a Distance | (PDF) thoughts and photo’s from my 50th high school reunion |
Click on (this link) for all of my photos (20,000+) – on the Amazon Cloud
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Chance And Deliverance
A Motorcycle Adventure – July 2000 -
Cruising Mexico’s Pacific Coast:
Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, Cabo San Lucas
September 30 – October 7, 2001 -
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Hawaii: Oahu, The Big Island, Maui, Kauai
Kiribati: Fanning Island (Tabuaeran)
19 February – 3 March 2003 -
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Motoring through Scotland: Edinburgh, Bannockburn, Stirling Castle, Pitlochry, Culloden, Inverness, Loch Ness, Isle of Sky, Fort William, Glen Coe, Loch Lomond, Glasgow.
26 May – 4 June 2004 -
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Berlin, Rome, Venice, Lake Garda, Florence, Pisa
Includes the packaging & Transportation of Radioactive Materials Symposium (PATRAM) in Berlin
September 16th – October 2nd, 2004 -
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Greece: Athens, Delphi, Olympia, Mycenae, Epidaurus, the Greek Islands of Mykonos, Isle of Rhodes, Patmos & Ephesus in Turkey,
26 August – 6 September 2005 -
Westward Roll: Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon
September – October 2006 -
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New York City, Half Moon Cay, Ft Laurdale, Cartagena, Panama Canal, Puntarenas, Puerto Quetzal, Huatulco, Acapulco, Cabo, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Seattle
18 April – 13 May 2007 -
PDF and Slides on Amazon
London, Paris, Chartres, Tours, Bordeaux, Lourdes, Pau, Biarritz, Burgos, Madrid, Toledo, Barcelona, Montserrat, Cannes, Monaco, Nice, Pisa, Montecatini, Florence, Assisi, Pompeii, Genoa, Isle of Capri, Sorrento, Venice (including Lido & Burano islands) Vienna, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Ober-ammergau, Liechtenstein, Lucerne, Freiburg, Heidelberg, St. Goar, Boppard, Cologne Amsterdam, Calais, Dover, London
5 September – 6 October 2007 -
Slides on Amazon
The Big Roundabout
Traveling Anticlockwise Around the USA
11,400 miles by RV, plus 2200 miles in the towcar
2 April – 21 June 2008 -
PDF and Slides on Amazon
Exploring Civilization’s Long Oasis: Egypt and the Nile, from Alexandria on the Mediterranean to Abu Simbel near the Sudanese border…
and a lot of in-between.
27 October – 7 November 2008 -
Slides on Amazon
Cruising Southeast Alaska. From Seattle to:
Juneau, Skagway, Tracy Arm Fjord, Ketchikan
(Includes Russ & Sharon’s wedding at sea!)
23 May – 30 May 2009 -
PDF and Slides on Amazon
China… Beijing: Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Great wall, Sacred Way, Lingdang Hutong, Xian: Terra Cotta Army, Tang Dynasty Dinner & Show, Chongqing, Yangtze River Cruise: Shibaozhai Pagoda & Temple, Three Gorges & Dam, Jingzhou School, Wuhan: Hubei Museum. Shanghai: Old Shanghai, Modern Shanghai, Yuyuan Gardens.
1 – 14 October 2010 -
Slides on Amazon
A Winter Escape to California: Canyonville OR, Corning, Chowchilla, Merced, Castic, San Diego, Ontario, Upland, Carlsbad, Ventura, Carpentaria, Ocenao (Pismo Beach), Prunedale, Pacheco Pass, Hwy-99, I-5 and home
27 January – 24 March, 2012 -
PDF and Slides on Amazon
Ecuador & Peru: Quito, Galapagos (Santa Cruz – Puerto Ayora, Santa Fe, Baltra, South Plaza, Bartolome islands). Peru: Lima, Cusco, Sacsayhuman, Kenko, Puca Pucara, Pisac, Ollantaytambo, Yucay, Aguas Calientes,
Machu Picchu 15 – 30 September, 2013 -
PDF and Slides on Amazon
Crusing the Danube
Hungary: Budapest. Austria: Vienna, Melk.
Germany: Passau, Regensbburg, Nuremberg.
Czech Republic: Prague
23 September – 4 October 2014 -
PDF and Slides on Amazon
Scandinavia: 20 August – 2 September 2016
Denmark: Copenhagen, Odense, Aalborg, Hirsthals
Norway: Stavanger, Bergen, Sognefjord, Geiranger, Lom, Lillehammer, Oslo Sweden: Karlstads, Stockholm.