A wild ride through the streets of Paris When Marilyn and I arrived in Paris two weeks before our 25th wedding anniversary in July 1997, we took a wild taxi ride from the Gare du Nord to the Left Bank and checked in to the Comfort Inn. (It was part of an American chain, so …
Let me introduce someone we met in Paris — La Dame du Brésil Read More »
At the end of summer in 2019, Bruce called and said that he and Sharon would like to come to visit us at the end of October. They were going to visit Sharon’s sister, and then would be going to Santa Fe, and they wanted to make a detour into Texas before heading home to …
Marilyn had graduated with a B.A. from the University of San Diego, College for Women in 1968. We decided to attend her 50th reunion, just to see San Diego again, and all the old haunts that we used to explore when we were first married, during my Navy days. Of course Marilyn had grown up …
When we were in Hannover visiting our daughter and her family in May 2018, the Stadtpark near their home was our favorite place to play. The grandkids and I would go there at least once a day, to run over the grass, play with a ball, and annoy the ducks and the large goldfish in …
On my return trip from Denver, after I had been up to visit my mother in Colorado in 2011, I diverted my route home in order to visit the McDonald Observatory and Big Bend National Park, in the far reaches of West Texas. It made my trip three days long, rather than the usual two …
After I left the McDonald Observatory, I proceed to Big Bend National Park which was 130 miles to the south. This fact was not known to me when I left, on the map of Texas, it appears to be a short distance. But I had a worrying problem, I was running low on gas, and …
On my drive to Denver, I took a quick side trip to see Otero Junior College in La Junta, Colorado. It had been about 40 years since I had graduated in June 1968, and I was curious to see if it had changed. The college had been founded in 1941, and many of the old …
On Friday, July 31st, I joined my daughter’s English friend Julian on a great bike ride through the countryside south and west of Stuttgart, Germany. It truly was a beautiful ride; within minutes of leaving his house in the village of Vaihingen we were riding through lush green farmlands and forests, quite beautiful to my …
This was a visit to newly discovered family we had never met, combined with a trip to see our daughter and her husband. Meeting the Margutti cousins in Essex, England for the very first time! 2. Hanging out with Larissa and Hans Georg in Stuttgart and vicinity. 3. Speyer Cathedral, consecrated in 1061, has been …
After a simple civil marriage ceremony in Switzerland in the autumn of 2007, Hans Georg and Larissa moved to southern Germany. It is the custom in Europe to have both a civil ceremony and a church ceremony. The civil ceremony is always first, because the church ceremony has no legal standing. The church ceremony is …
Getting To Switzerland Our beloved daughter Larissa is getting married to Mr. Hans-Georg Freiermuth in Zürich, Switzerland on November 24, 2007! After receiving that news, of course we begin making plans to travel to Switzerland. By the end of September, we have airplane tickets and a hotel reservation. (At this point, $.60 = 1.00 CHF) …
In October 7, 2007, Marilyn and I were out for the Luckenbach run with the Volkssportverein Friedrichsburg. Here are some of the pictures that we took. I had heard about Luckenbach, which is just a few miles from Friedrichsburg, for a long time. Both places started as mid-19th century German settlements in the Texas Hill …
Marilyn and I traveled to the very small settlement of Mountain Spring, Nevada.
In June 2020 Larissa was on a 6 month visa allowing her to work in the UK in the BUNAC program. She had been rewriting and editing materials for the Inland Revenue Service and she was renting a room from Valerie and Malcolm Light, whom she had known since her junior high days. Leeds Castle …
Visit with Valerie and Malcolm Light near Chingford, a London suburb Read More »
Edinburgh Castle Cramond Kirk tour with Willa Stewart Edinburgh was a special treat because we visited it with a native! Marilyn’s college friend, Moira Lees, often called Willa Stewart her “oldest friend” because Willa, at age 12, had braved the wartime blackout (without telling her parents) and had ridden her bicycle across town to see …
Hawkshead in the Lake District Hilltop Farm in the Lake District England’s Lake District, nestled in Cumbria, in the northwestern area of the country, is well-known as a holiday spot. Lake Windermere, shown in the first photo above, is one of the most famous lakes in the area. The uncultivated mountains in the area, known …
To celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary, we visited Paris together. A collection of wonderful memories…
In May of 1996, Larissa was graduating from Scripps College. She had done a good job with her studies, and her parents decided to give Larissa a car as a graduation present. We purchased a used 1 year old Nissan Sentra at Roger Beasley Mazda in Austin. She came home the week before graduation, just …
Larissa and Gary’s trip from Austin TX to Claremont, CA Read More »
Larissa’s Study Abroad: University of Bristol Marilyn’s Version: In 1995, Larissa chose to attend the University of Bristol for her year of study abroad from Scripps College. Bristol was an English-speaking university, and she could easily transfer the credits to Scripps. Another student, whose name I don’t recall, was also going to Bristol. Larissa’s friend …
Back in the late spring or early summer of 1990, Rodney called our house in Austin and asked if Larissa would like to accompany their family on a camping vacation, driving west from Texas to Arizona and then Nevada. We told him that Claire, an exchange student from France, was going to be visiting us …
In the summer of 1973, Marilyn, Tom Benton, and I drove out East of LA to climb mount Baldy. We drove as far as we could go, then hiked the rest of the way. It was slow going but the scenery was pretty. I found this very detailed web page about climbing Mount Baldy today.
