Travel and Other Pictures

I have taken plenty of pictures since I borrowed a Sony Mavica FD-7 digital camera in 1997 and bought my own in 1998. Many of them are gathered here, now along with some scans of older things, sorted by the events or trips during which they were taken. Quality improves with each new camera: an Olympus Camedia C2100-UZ in March 2001, an Olympus Camedia C730 Ultra Zoom in May 2003, and a Fujifilm FinePix S9000 in April 2006.

I have always enjoyed travelling, especially by car. My family took vacations, usually by car, just about every year. Starting from Amsterdam, New York, we drove to New Mexico and Colorado in 1977, Florida for the first time in 1978 (followed by many additional Florida trips), cross-country to Yellowstone, California, and the Grand Canyon in 1985, and to Yellowstone and Colorado in 1989. I've made my own trips since then, often combining work and fun. The highlights: the Minnesota, Kansas City, St. Louis, and Florida trip in March-April, 1997, the 1999 cross-country trip which included 21 states, covering 7500 miles in 20 days in July-August, 1999, the 9000+-mile road trip to Alaska in June, 2001, and back to Yellowstone and more in 2003. In 2003-04, I made three trips by car back and forth between Williamstown, Massachusetts, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. And finally, Hawaii in 2006. These and many other recent trips are listed below. I have begun to scan pictures and write up some details about trips and scan in some baseball scorecards from the past as well. These will be added here as time permits.

I've started to develop a clickable map that plots my picture sets using the Google Maps API. I have a lot of ideas about how to move forward with this, and I'll add more picture sets and add more features as time permits.

Over the years, I've made it to all 50 states, six Canadian provinces plus the Yukon. Also lots of state and national parks. States apparently got too easy, since I've also been tracking the counties in the U.S. I've visited with help from this site (I'm now over 47%). Recent additions are lists of visits to the 100 largest cities in the U.S., the 75 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S., and airports I have been to or through. A quick walk across to Tijuana, Mexico, and three trips to conferences in Europe have given me a total of 13 countries visited. I've also managed to see quite a few professional baseball games, and have done a lot of skiing.

There's a page just for road signs, if you like that kind of thing, but it's not all just road signs everywhere else. Many of the links below are to detailed trip reports, accompanied by the pictures. Some trip reports contain a lot of detail which is of no interest to anyone (except me, and even that's sometimes doubtful). Along those same "roadgeek" lines, I have a list of Interstate Highways I have travelled, and the beginnings of a similar page for U.S. Highways.

One especially popular set of images from a while back is my Die Jar Jar page, where everyone's favorite Phantom Menace "hero" meets a campfire.

I got this fortune at the House of Chan in Kingman, Arizona, in October, 2003, which probably means I should keep traveling.

All images are property of and copyright James D. Teresco and may not be used for any purpose other than your viewing pleasure without permission. Enjoy!

E-mail domain: teresco.org, username: terescoj+pics - Sat Apr 26 20:22:04 EDT 2008
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