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On The Road Again…
2023
Lori outside the Croatian State Archives, 14 April 202313 March 2023 FamilySearch Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
2022
12 June 2022 Allen County Public Library, Ft. Wayne, Indiana
Willennar Genealogy Center, A Part of Eckhart Public Library, Auburn, Indiana
2019 – Peru:
Roman Catholic Chapel in Tacoma
Nasca Lines – It was a harrowing flight in a small plane
Isla Ballestas, the Poor Man’s Galapagos
Lori and husband Approaching Machu Picchu
Poor Llama, We were tired, too, after making the climb!
We visited the day before the solar equinox. The sun was reflecting in this pool of water that was used as a calendar.
Cemetery in Cusco. Do I ever travel anywhere without visiting a cemetery?!
Cusco Market. It’s a small world! Those delicacies are made the way my Croatian grandmother made loditina.
Shaman with my husband and I. We had a translator who explained the significance of items used in ritual ceremonies.
Saqeaywaman – Check out the “cat’s paw.” I was missing my own so it was time to go home.
2018 –Mexico, NGS Conference in North Carolina and Cuba:
Isn’t this a magical photo?! We’re exploring at the Archaeological Zone Dzibanche. All the photos show the rainbow which we didn’t see when we were there. It was a long way down so I decided to sit and take it slow going down the uneven steps. Forgot my phone was in my rear pocket. The phone never worked again but all my photos were saved. Now that’s magical!
Kohunlich, Mexico
Altun Ha, Mexico – love the red dye on the stones!
Husband and I on the wedding platform at San Gervasio on Cancun. We were supposed to be at Tulum but due to a terrorist threat, couldn’t leave the island. Mayans came from far away to be married on this spot.
Researching in Raleigh, NC.
Hemingway’s Home, Havana, Cuba. Who knew that his favorite bar, Sloppy Joes, was once a chain?!
Hemingway’s Home, Key West July 2018
El Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón, Havana, Cuba – Can’t keep a genealogist out of a cemetery anywhere in the world!
2017 -Key West, Florida; Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Grand Cayman:
Where’s Coco?
Mayan Lunch Tulum, Mexico
Lamanai Guides, Belize had their DNA done
Mahogany Bay, Honduras
High Temple of Lamanai, Belize with calendar stone Genealogists go to He11 and Back, Grand Cayman Grand Cayman Oldest Home Offshore Cuba July 2017
2016 – I Love the Big Apple! Also loved the NGS Conference in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida but pics won’t load, sigh.
2015 Salt Lake City, Utah; West Virginia; San Francisco, California; Polk County, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; Orlando, Florida; Washington, DC; Waynesboro, Pennsylvania :
Yours truly, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 2015
Dino Family Tee at the Natural History Museum in Salt Lake
Native American Mound in Moundsville, West Virginia May 2015
Across the street from the mound is this creepy Victorian prison
Mission Dolores Column, San Francisco, California July 2015
Mission Dolores steeple
New England Historic & Genealogical Society, Boston, MA Nov 2015
Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego, California Dec 2015
Polk County, Florida Courthouse Dec 2015
Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana Feb 2016
Disney fireworks in Orlando is a great way to end a Brain Conference! Apr 2016
Alexander Hamilton Library, Waynesboro, PA July 2016
Behind the scenes at the Library of Congress Genealogy Section, Washington, DC July 2016
DAR Library
National Archives Researcher Entrance from the Metro steps
I can only hope to follow my Gateway Ancestors to Croatia, France, Germany, Great Britain and Sweden!