Wedding of our son, Steve, to Jeanne Marie Tracey. 2006

Wedding of our son, Dave, to Michelle Chen, 2007

Family reunion in Korea, 2007

Llama

After college (University of California, Berkeley), plans to teach in Korea shifted so that instead, I married into a large and close-knit Korean family, and the travel bug hit in earnest.

In my first visit to Korea, back in 1964, we lived on a farm with no
electricity and no running water, and this city kid fell in love with traditional Korea.

Another photo of the farm.

My Korean family, 1964.( holding one-year-old Laura).

Stayed in an ancient Buddhist temple in the mountains of Korea.

Hiked the Swiss alps.

And explored the ancient trade routes across the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts of China and from Khiva to Samarkand in Uzbekistan.

We joined the descendants of the queen for the annual Confucian ceremony at her tomb site. Her tomb in on the hill in the background.

And were invited to stay for lunch.