Move to Sweden - In August I moved to Sweden. Here is information about my new home.

• Ice Hotel - Kiruna Sweden. A hotel built of ice and snow blocks with artfully sculpted ice decorating the rooms.

• India

• Poland

Travelogue for trip in France, Germany, Bicycle tour down Danube River and cruise in Greece.

Switzerland (September) - I had a conference there and made a trip trip to Lausanne.

Travelogue for Bicycle tour down Loire River in France (June)

Florida (April) - this was planned for 2020, bu then the world changed. We still visited Disney, a college friend, the Everglades, Key West and a cousin in Miami.

French Polynesia (November)- Since I was teaching remotely, Pete convinced me to teach remotely from French Polynesia. It was probably the best vacation I ever took. Beautiful water, fish and warm weather!

Camping/fishing in Yellowstone region (September+) - with so much locked up, and teaching being done remotely, we took the opportunity to take the camper to eastern Idaho where Pete could fish, and from there explore around Yellowstone, including into Wyoming. I even attended a conference from the Grand Tetons National Park!!

Eel River. (May) We put in at Dos Rios and Took out 4 days later. We had perfect water and perfect weather, and great company.

Panama (February) - I had a meeting there. Pete and I arrived a couple of days early to see some. One of the IEEE members helped organize a great tour of the canal locks.

Most travel this year was canceled.

Mexico (March) - I had a meeting in Mexico City, the weekend that would be at the end of BSU's Spring Break. Pete and I went a week early and toured the northern Yukatan Peninsula. Lots of pyramid ruins and lovely people. Then we were in Mexico City for 3 days, and I visited Teotihuacán while there.

TEDx Talk (April) - A coworker knew someone on the TEDx Boise organizing committee and forwarded to me and several others the notice to submit an application. I had recently given a series of talks at church that went over very well, so I applied. I got an interview and was selected. It was quite an experience. 

Cabin in McCall

Caribbean Cruise (December) - Pete found a good deal on this Carnival cruise to the southern Caribbean. We talked Dad into coming with us. It was nice.

(Pete's bicycle tour in Europe)

•  Merry Christmas 2018

• Scandinavia (May-June) - We invited my father on a Hurtigruten cruise up the coast of Norway. When that ended, he went to Bavaria while Pete and I did a tour around Scandinavia. We went back up the coast to Bodø and took a ferry to the Lofoten islands, and hitchhiked across them. Then went to Stockholm and Uppsala. Then to the Swedish island of Åland, to Finland and the cities of Turku and Helsinki. Then we flew to Iceland and circumnavigated the island.

• Costa Rica (March) - I had a meeting here and we came early and stayed late. (~350 Photos)

• Australia - 12 December 2016 - 7 January 2017 - Pete went to Indonesia in November. I couldn't because I had to work. After he was planning to go to Australia. I met him there and we briefly toured Sydney and Melbourne and then spent 2 weeks on Tazmania.(~225 Photos)

• Summer in Europe - May - July 2017 (~175 Photos)

• E Idaho and Glacier NP - August 2017 (~20 photos)

• Japan - November 2017 (~170 photos)

2016 was the year Google discontinued its wonderful Picassa software. This software had allowed me to edit my albums at home and upload what I chose in the order I wanted. I got behind in making albums during this time. Most links for 2015 and earlier therefore no longer work. Someday I'll upload albums about my 2016 and earlier travels.

• China

• Pete & Elisa

• Berlin w/ Dad (BVT)

• Dad's 80th Birthday Party

• Elisa on Aircraft Carrier

• Hiking Big Horn Crags

• Desolation Wilderness-July2016

• KIVI TV Interview on WWI Feldpost Postcard project (now hosted on YouTube)

• France - Spring 2015 (315 Photos)

• The recording our Chorale in Nancy made of the song "Brave marin" (MP3) 

• Three wonderful months in Dortmund (221 Photos)

• Volkstanz Wochenenden in Karlsruhe and Hoher Meissner (79 Photos)

• Rosenmontagszug - Köln (450 Photos)

• Volkstanzwoche Freiburg 2014-2015 (197 photos)

• St. Nicholas Day and Christmas 2014: Nancy, Dortmund, Erfurt, Eguisheim, Freiburg, Colmar, Breisach & Neuf-Brisach (772 Photos)

• France 2014. You can see pictures I took when I worked here in 2009 (below).
    Daily life in France
    Nancy - Volume 1

• Bavaria - September 2014
  After the Oktoberfest Dad and I spent another week traveling to visit two sets of friends I know in Bavaria, seeing and doing more spectacular things.

• Oktoberfest Germany - September 2014
  Dad and I went with about 400 American Trachtlers to march in the Schützen- und Trachtenzug on the second day of the München Oktoberfest.
    Video (low res) from BR of Oktoberfest Schützen und Trachtenzug. Gauverband NA starts at 50:25
    Video (High res) from BR of Oktoberfest Schützen- und Trachtenzug video (1.7GB)
    My friend Stephen Hargreaves from Alt Washingtonia took some great photos:
      Photos from Friday night Treffen
      Photos from Zug and Oide Wiesn on Sunday
      Photos from Oide Wiesn on Monday
      My favorites from Stephen's collection

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• Gena's Wedding - July 2014
  Gena and Tom (not the Tom I hike with) finally got married! They planned a marvelous event at Tom's parent's house in Sangerville Maine (central Maine). These are my pictures.

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• Microgravity Team trip to Houston - June 2014
  BSU's Microgravity team was again accepted into the NASA Microgravity University program. I was again their faculty mentor and this time was able to make the trip to Houston with them.

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• Microgravity Team to Houston - June 2013
  BSU's Microgravity team was again accepted into the NASA Microgravity University program. I was again their faculty mentor and this time was able to make the trip to Houston with them.

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• Death Valley - November 2012 (Still to come)

• Backpacking Montana - August 2012 (Still to come)

• Sierra Backpacking Evolution Valley - July 2012 (Still to come)

• Paris - June-July 2012 (Still to come)

• Versaille - June-July 2012 (Still to come)

• Brittany - June-July 2012 (Still to come)

• Hasselt Belgium - June-July 2012 (Still to come)

• Australia - March 2012
  The Document Analysis Systems workshop was in Gold Coast Australia. I wanted to see Australia, so I wrote a paper and it got accepted. Tom came with me here too. After the conference we stayed 4 more days and went to northern Queensland and the Great Barrier Reef. I'd definitely be willing to come back again.

• China - September 2011
  The top conference in my field is held every 2 years and alternates continents. This year was Asia and Beijing China. Tom decided at the last mement to come with me. He had to get his passport renewed (it expired in 1993). I saw a few things I hadn't seen last year when I was in China for the first time.

• Boise Ballon Festival - September 2011
  Boise may have dropped the River Festival, but they held onto the annual Ballon Festival component. A friend from Boise Active Singles owns a ballon and offered the chance for BAS members to help him set it up, launch it and collect it. While we were working for free, it was a great experience and I took some cool pictures.

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• San Francisco - 24 January 2011
  I took the late afternoon off from the Electronic Imaging Symposium to go explore SanFrancisco with George. We talked business too.

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• China - 6-19 October 2010
  I was invited to visit China to build up collaborations with a colleague there. Along side doing that I got to see 4 cities and many beautiful sights. I visited Shanghai, Souzhou, Nanjing and Beijing. (caution: 901 photos)

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• DC-February 2010
  I went to Washington DC to serve on an NSF review panel. They had a big snowstorm which shut down the city. Flights were cancelled too. I had cabin fever, so when we had no reviewing to do one day and the subways weren't running, I walked to downtown to see the city under an unusually bright blanket of snow.

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• Montserrat, Spain - 26 July 2009
  On Sunday there were no conferences or workshops so I went to Montserrat, just a little outside of Barcelona. I met up with 5 other ICDAR folk en route and we spent the day together.

• Barcelona Spain - 23 July 2009
  I had a conference in Barcelona. These are pictures I took while there.

• France - Summer 2009
  I worked at the LORIA (Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications = Lorraine Laboratory of Computer Science Research and its Applications), in Nancy France for 6 weeks in Summer 2009. This album has pictures of Vandoeuvre (the city where I lived), Nancy (the 'big' city nearby) and some other nearby cities and sights.

• Brazil - September 2007
  Every other year is the big conference in my field. In 2007 it was in Curitiba Brazil. Because I was starting my sabbatical I could go earlier and stay longer so I visited a PhD classmate in Itajuba and also saw Sao Paulo.

• Alaska - June 2005
  Scott and I went to South-East Alaska for a small boat cruise. The boat had 48 passengers and 24 crew, including a super chef and 3 naturalists. We had flexibility in the schedule and could get to places large cruise ships could not. We also went out on nature walks and in sea kayaks.

• Cakes and Cookies
  When I was living in Connecticut I took a cake decorating class through Community Ed with another woman who also worked at the Navy Lab. Since then I've created some nice items. Many are documented here.

• Christmas Crafts
  I am fortunate to live a few doors down the street from a wonderful man who is also Santa Claus. At Christmas his yard is fully decorated and he gives rides on an ATV towed "sleigh" and in an antique firetruck he purchased. He dresses up as Santa Claus and hands out candy canes. He commented that he wanted a display that would put Christ into his Christmas display, and only had this inflatable nativity set. I offered to make him a bigger nativity set if he provided the supplies. I made some other things since then. They are documented here. I have ideas for some more things... when I have time.