TRAVELS

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A first feature many people mention about me is long-range adventure travels, often expressed as "He sure seems to be gone a lot!" True, true, and related. I have been on each continent, and often, and all of the United States in a mix of visiting professorships in the capital cities of the world, followed almost immediately, with any luck, by departures for remote interior adventures in sometimes exotic settings. Some of these travels are listed in the International Experiences of "Windows on the World". I have been lucky.

• Oceana
• Middle East and Mediterranean
• The Subcontinent
• Far East
• Latin America and the Caribbean
• Caribbean
• Europe
• Africa

TRAVELOG

Click on "Windows on the World" for a listing of International Experiences that have been enjoyed thus far and join in planning the next windows to be opened on the world out side your house which you know so well.

I have not deliberately set about collecting visa stamps from new nations in overstuffed passports, but in the course of my travels, enough of the map has been "notched" to qualify for something I just heard about--the "Century Club"--those elite travelers who have scored visits to one hundred or more nations. Only after I had heard of such collectors, did I look back to tally 155 countries at last count, many of which no longer exist, or are reconstituted as new ones. But, as with other achievements in life, what is past is prologue.

What is the point of logging all these kilometers and ports of call? The trip is not marked only by its destination, anymore than life is defined by death or the race by the finish line. What are you doing along the way to learn what might be helpful in understanding?

The best of travels, of course, are enlightening explorations of self, since:

BON VOYAGE!