2005 to 2007 – Charles and Laveta's Web Site

2005 to 2007

California Dreamin’ Napa Valley, California, April 2005

Laveta and the Gold Wing- fronting a section of a much larger mural painted on the side of a building near what was the the old Northern Pacific rail yard, South Tacoma WA. June 2005

Laveta in her 60th year, 4 July 2005

Tall Ships in Tacoma, July 2005
1 Pallada, length 356 feet, mast height 162 feet- Vladivostok, Russia
2 Rigging on the Pallada
3 Cuauhtemoc, length 270 feet- Acapulco, Mexico
4 Laveta with our son Mike aboard the Cuauhtemoc

Both Photo’s- on brother John’s property, July 2005
1 Laveta driving a tractor for the first time. (Just look at that smile.)
2 Carol on the beach at Useless Bay, Whidbey Island, Washington

A daytrip to Mt. Rainier National Park– August 2005

At home – Aug 2005

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Greece, the Greek Islands of Mykonos, Rhodes, Patmos
& Ephesus in Turkey, 26 August – 6 September 2005

Wine Tasting in California (again) March 2006

14 July 2006… after 36 years- Retirement!

Traveling in the West: Washington, Idaho, Montana,
Wyoming, South Dakota, Colorado, New Mexico,
Texas, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon
September – October 2006

Laveta on a Snowy day in University Place, WA, January 16, 2007

Shooting rats on brother John’s property, Whidbey Island Washington, February, 2007

Jim, Carol, Laveta & Me: Frog’s Leap, Rutherford California March 2007

Whidbey Island, Washington – July 2005

At the Museum of Glass – Tacoma Washington (The glass "Hot -Shop" is inside the cone)

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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

This section covers the PATRAM Symposium in Miami Florida 21-26 October 2007

Miami and the Marriott Doral hotel- site of the Symnposium

Dinner at the Versailles– Miami ( great Cuban food)

Sharon and Rich

A wonderful dinner at the Vyzcaya Museum – courtesy of AREVA

The final Banquet Night program, 25 October 2007

Banquet Night at the LegendsBallroom at the Marriott. Sharon socializing.

At the Banquet

Award winners from previous PATRAM-2004 in Berlin (That’s me on the right)

Laveta, Sharon and their ‘Gators".

Laveta, Joe and Molly (St. Petersburg pier) and an outdoor lunch

The "Vice Squad" Christmas Brunch (2007)

In the operating room: My cervical spine undergowing an "Anterior Cervical Microdiskectomy with Fusion and Anterior Plate Fixation".
19 Dec 2007 (I feel a lot better now!)