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Welcome to our web page!
We are so glad to have
this opportunity to share our experiences, dive photos and adventures with
you. Karin's job and Gary's busy retirement keeps us from seeing you very
often, but thanks to E-mail and our web page, we can still keep in touch with
you. Please take some time to enjoy the various photos and stories from our
latest travels. Then send us an E-mail to not only let us know what your impressions
of it are, but also to let us know what has been going on in your life.
Remember, also, that no matter where our home is located, we have a guest
room just waiting for our friends and family! Please feel free to come visit
us and share in our adventures! |
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Palau '11 We spent Christmas 2011 (Dec 21 - 30) in Palau. Most of it was spent on or under the water. Our friends, Chrisse, Meg, Gerry, Rita, Caroline, & Tina joined us on this great dive adventure. |
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Guam '11 We spent Spring Break 2011 (Apr. 11-15) in Guam. Our friends, John Sholine and Martha Stanton, joined us on this adventure. |
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Thailand '10 We spent Christmas 2010 in Thailand. We stayed with some new freinds, the Kanjanawongpaisan family. They were wonderful hosts.
They took us all over the country and showed us some spectacular sites and scenery.
They also kept us very well fed. |
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Kyoto, Japan '10 Thanksgiving 2010 in Kyoto. It was very nice being around the changing fall leaves again. |
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Germany '09 Christmas '09 . Christmas in Nuernberg!
Gleuwein, food, friends, food, skiing and really great food! |
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Maldives '08 Christmas '08 . Finally! A successful dive live-aboard trip! We saw more eels than we could count, plenty of turtles, sharks and manta rays, and even some new things we haven't seen before. |
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Pohnpei '08 Spring Break '08 . It was the perfect vacation paradise. We experienced some of the healthiest coral reefs on the planet, amazing underwater creatures both large & small, great food, an ancient city and some great new friends. All of this combined with the opportunity to rest & relax made this one of our most enjoyable trips! |
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Sapporo '08 Winter '08 . Snow and Ice Schulptures, skiing, great food and great friends. ...And more snow!! |
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Utah
'07 Christmas '07. Skiing, great food and great friends. ...And snow!! |
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Stateside
'07 Summer '07. Beautiful
weather (most of the time), great food, wonderful sailing through the San Juans with family, hot air ballooning in Maryland and diving in Okinawa with Dan. This is what summer
vacation is meant to be. |
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Hawai'i
'06 In December 2006 we made our way to Maui to dive and spend Christmas and New Year with our old friends the Simms. |
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Washington
'05 Summer '05. Beautiful
weather, great food, wonderful hiking, and family. This is what summer
vacation is all about. |
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Palau
2 . Summer '05. Awsome
Diving & dive photos, beautiful weather, great group of friends
made this the best dive trip yet! Sam's guarantee of "See sharks
on every dive" was fulfilled! |
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Yap
2. Summer '05. The diving
was still as fantastic as we had remembered. As usual, the mantas didn't
disappoint. |
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Australia. Spring Break '04. Diving the Great Barrier Reef,
exploring the rainforests near Cairns, seeing the sites of Sydney. We'd
go back any time! |
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Thailand .Christmas '03. Beautiful scenery,
wonderful food, temples, an elephant ride, great dive photos, an adventure
here and there and friendly people made this a vacation to remember |
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Stateside
.Summer '03. Our whirlwind Summer tour
to visit family and friends in Hawaii, Montana, Missouri, New York,
Baltimore, Pennsylvania, Tennessee& California. |
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Korea Some of the sites from Seoul where we lived from Apr 1999 to Dec. 2002. |
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Saipan A 2002 Presidents Weekend getaway for some relaxation
and a little Scuba diving. |
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New
Zealand. Christmas '01. Breath-taking scenery,
great food, an adventure here and there and friendly people made this
a vacation to remember. |
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Palau. Our next dive trip - Spring '01. One of the
top dive locations in the world! This is what diving is all about. Some
more challenges to push our limits and some breath-taking sites &
dive photos. Wow! |
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Yap. Our next dive trip - Spring '01. We've hit
the big time! Between the mantas, the hotel, it's staff, and the great
people we met from Okinawa, England and the USA, we had a great time
and got some nice dive photos! |
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Fiji. Our First Dive - Christmas 2000 in Fiji. We
are really getting into these tropical Christmases. Add the excitement
of learning to Scuba dive and... Well, we weren't thinking about our
work back in Korea! |
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China. Spring 2000. This is what we came to Asia for!
Beijing and the Great wall to Xian and the Terra Cotta Soldiers. What
a fantastic trip! |
