Travel
Many people ask me about my travels. Like my resume (which is an odd assortment of small adventures) my travels have influenced who I am. As well this being a record year for me personally perhaps it is time to post something about it. So for those who are interested here is a more extensive section detailing some of my travels.
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Born in Norristown PA 1970
Family moves to New Jersey 1971 (where my brother Jeff is born).
Family moves to Queens New York 1973
Family moves to Florida to be near ill grand father 1975.
Grand father passes family relocates to Melbourne Florida Tampa Florida then St.
Petersburg Florida all within about three years. Parents divorce 1977.
Live in Arizona and California crossing the entire continent by rail and by car for the first time.
Temple Terrace and Tampa.
Father re-marries moves family to then rural Seffner 1980.
Family trips through Washington D.C. New York and Eastern seaboard. First exposure to real museums the Smithsonian and others.
Two weeks of camping and hiking on the Appalachian trail (highlight of my teenage years)
Under increased stress at home I leave to live in Tallahassee Florida 1986. Hold my first jobs and pay rent for the first time. Travels to New Orleans
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| Independence Hall Philly PA |
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| New Orleans has always been a special place for me from the food and music to the feeling of the place. |
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| Travels to New Orleans, Mobile and the Gulf Coast. Trip to Canada and New England 1988
1998 Return to form my first rock group in Bay Area.
More travels through New York through Texas, Louisiana, and New England.
First overseas travel 1992 France and England.
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| I found the West amazing and never got tired of exploring it. |
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| Relocated to Colorado returning to Florida once a year for around ten years.
Extensive travels through the Southwest, Nevada, California, New Mexico, Utah, South Dakota, Wyoming and Arizona. First exposure to Pueblo Culture and the Taos artists.
First trip to Italy 1994
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Spain, Morocco, and Portugal 1995
Puerto Rico 1996
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| Travels through the south of Spain. |
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Return to College to finish art degree and got interested in archaeology.
Cross the continental US by car from California to North Carolina (it was my fourth time making the trip).
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| Made a blues pilgrimage to see the Delta and the blues highway 61 |
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| Prasat Prah Virhan Cambodia |
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| Thailand, Korea, and Cambodia 1999-2000.
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First field school Crow Canyon 1999.
Move to New Mexico to work for the Museum of New Mexico as a field archaeologist 2000
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| As a field archaeologist I had some of my only real adventures, going places off any map, seeing things no one had ever seen or might never be seen again, going to places without roads or much of anything. |
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| Santa Fe |
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| Utah |
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Return to Colorado to begin an anthropology degree live in Louisville Colorado.
First trip to Switzerland 2001.
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| Had an incredible time living in the Renaissance city of Florence |
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September 10 2001 begin restoration and museum studies in Italy living in Florence.
Travel to Austria and extensively through Italy and Switzerland residing for several months in Samedan in the Engadin. First exposure to Romanisch art and typical Engadiner styles. While a student in Italy I view many of the greatest works of the Renaissance and begin my infatuation with Etruscan art.
Return to the states alone living again in Temple Terrace 2002.
Married in Bühler Switzerland 2002.
Several months in Florida, before returning to Colorado by car with my new bride.
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Trips through the West (adding Montana Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri to the above list), back through to Florida and back to Switzerland.
Visits to Vienna, Germany, France and the Virgin Islands 2003.
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| Continued to explore the Southwest. |
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| Worked for a few museums continued to work on an anthropology degree eventually doing a little grad history work.
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Spend a great deal of time underground visiting mines throughout the Cripple Creek and Victor gold camps as well as other camps. (Mines entered the El Paso, the Independence, the Mollie Kathleen, the Crescent, the Phoenix, the Elkton, the Argo, the Black Diamond and the Dead Horse) as well as working as a guide at the Mollie Kathleen Mine and the Western Museum of Mining.
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| The machines, mills and mines of the old west filled my head and spilled out onto my work for a few years. |
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Relocated to Switzerland spending several months in Appenzell (where I later worked) before settling in St. Gallen 2004.
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| In Italy I became interested in the Middle Ages and in St. Gallen I had a chance to look at real manuscripts and other works first hand. |
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| Trips to Prague and America 2005.
Numerous trips to Austria and Germany.
Relocated to Biel/Bienne in Western Switzerland 2006
Trip to Greece.
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| Began to work for the Museum of Cultures in beautiful Basel. |
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Trips to Belgium.
Road trip to Macedonia (driving through Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia), London, the U.S. and Colombia.
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| Visting the largest excavation I have ever witnessed in fantastic Ohrid Macedonia. |
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So in closing here is the scoreboard
Total states lived in 8; California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida.
Total countries lived in 3; Switzerland, Italy, and the U.S.
Total countries visited 25, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, France, Thailand, Cambodia, Korea, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Morocco, England, Czech Republic, Liechtenstein, Belgium, Greece, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Macedonia and Colombia (pending in late Nov.) and the U.S.
Well that is that it was fun putting this together I hope you have enjoyed it as well. I will continue to add things as they come up. Why is this important one might ask? Every trip big or small changes you and after enough it becomes more and more so until it has defined you. As well living in other countries is an entirely different thing altogether (take all your one week trips and add them up and they only a few months) that has a deeper harder to convey effect.
I hope to one day to really travel but have tried to and have a little. I feel I could still go much further and maybe I will who knows. The thing that relates to the art is that I visit all kind of museums when I travel, soak up the buildings, the landscape, the history and then this pours out into my art, take away one journey and you loose a bunch of paintings in short.
peace
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