Photo BooksMy Mary's Woods: A generic version with more topics pictures.
Our Mary's Woods: Pictures of the campus and our place.
Art in Troubled Times: Murals in downtown Portland honoring the Black Lives Matter movement.
Irish Adventure: OAT Tour of Ireland The Canadian Rockies and Yellowstone: GCT Tour Tuscany and Umbria: Rustic Beauty in the Italian Heartland: OAT Tour in Italy The 50th Thanksgiving: Paul's sister and brother-in-law's 50th Anniversary In Quest of Leopards: Wildlife Paradise Photo Safari Hello Mister (Paul's Peace Corps Experience in Iran) Cuba: A Bridge Between Cultures The Cars of Cuba West Africa Odyssey: South Africa to Morocco Grace: Travels of a Photographer Antarctica: The Falklands and South Georgia Antarctic Voyage: The Falklands, South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula People: Thailand, India, Cambodia and Vietnam People 2: Mongolia and China People 3: Tombstone, Arizona - Helldorodo Days People 4: West Africa Paul's History BooksBuilding the Skagit: A Century of Upper Skagit Valley History 1870-1970
by Paul C. Pitzer (Contact Seattle City Light for their new desktop picture book edition.) Grand Coulee: Harnessing A Dream by Paul C. Pitzer Companies we use for travel
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Organizations/ClubsGrace:
The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International Oregon State Organization Webmaster Beta Beta Chapter, DKG Oregon 2022 - Beta Beta Educational Foundation, Webmaster Green Valley Recreation Photography Club, Arizona Classes at Mary's Woods
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About UsWe are retired school teachers from the Portland, Oregon area. For many years, travel has been our favorite activity. Since we have retired, we are able to do more of it and have become interested in photography. This website has been designed to allow you to see some of our best work and follow our adventures.
While we have visited all seven continents, South America and Australia are missing from the Photo Galleries because they were mostly in the pre-digital era, and I haven't gone back to scan any of those photos. Mary's Woods, April 2023:
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We eloped in January.
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Official Wedding in March
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Our 50th at Mary's Woods
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Us with the Mountbatten Castle in the background, along the west coast of Ireland.
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Us in the Donegal Castle, Ireland
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Recent Trips
September 22 - October 14, 2019. We took the Irish Adventure: County Clare, Northwest counties or Ireland was the main tour. The Pre-Trip part was Killarney and Dingle. This tour was with Overseas Adventure Travel (OAT). It was three week, just in Ireland. It was a great trip, and I Blogged it along the way. See my photo book: Irish Adventure
June 20 - July 8, 2019. We took the "Best of the Canadian Rockies: Calgary to Vancouver" bus trip with Grand Circle Travel. We added on the pre-trip to Yellowstone National Park. (Check my Blog posts) More pictures will be coming.
July 25 - August 8, 2018. We started our Canada travels visiting with friends in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. We continued on to Quebec City and Montreal for the pre-trip on the Grand Circle Travel tour "The Canadian Maritimes: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island." Unfortunately we had a medical event in Saint John, NB and had to fly home early. (Check Travel Blog last couple posts.) It was a great trip as far as we went.
March 27 - April 10, 2017 we had the privileged of being able to repeat the "Baja, California; A Remarkable Journey" photo expedition with Lindblad aboard the National Geographic Sea Lion. Our good friend Jack Swenson was the Expedition Leader and he guided us around Baja and into the Sea of Cortez looking for marine mammals and taking walks on isolated islands. It was a fabulous trip.
February 1 - 12, 2017 we took our second trip to Cuba on a People-to-People trip: Cuba Revealed: Cultural Pathways from Camaguey to Havana, with Grand Circle Foundation. It was a great trip and we saw a different area of Cuba from our 2013 trip.
April/May 2016 we had a great three weeks in Italy on an OAT trip: Tuscany and Umbria: Rustic Beauty in the Italian Heartland. I have a few Blog posts about some of our unusual experiences.
We had two fabulous trips in February, 2015. The first was to Eastern Europe. It was really two trips back-to-back. The first was an Overseas Adventure Travel trip: "Jewels of Bohemia: Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia & Hungary" followed by a river cruise on the Danube with Grand Circle Travel: "Eastern Europe to the Black Sea: Budapest to Bucharest."
The second great trip in August 2015 was "Wildlife Paradise Photo Safari by Private Air: Including South Africa, Botswana and Namibia," with Jack and Rikki Swenson through Lindblad Expeditions and Eyes on Africa. We were promised leopards, and were not disappointed.
The second great trip in August 2015 was "Wildlife Paradise Photo Safari by Private Air: Including South Africa, Botswana and Namibia," with Jack and Rikki Swenson through Lindblad Expeditions and Eyes on Africa. We were promised leopards, and were not disappointed.