The story of my 2023 Alaskan adventure began in 2018 when I accidentally ran into KICY radio station manager Patty Burchell at the Urbana Student Missions Conference.
We had a conversation about radio and before I knew it I had sort-of volunteered to help out the radio station in Nome when they are short-staffed during March high school basketball tournament time.
Traveling in January is not always fun but my trip to Oxford was great fun and the city is very photogenic. So I have many more photos. Here are a few more that I have not shared yet on the C.S. Lewis post and the Ashmolean post.
The best price for flights that I found was on Iceland Air. As with most international flights I arrived about 3 hours before takeoff. At both ends, O’Hare and Heathrow, there was no line to check in with Iceland Air, while there were huge lines for the other carriers.
I once read a quote by T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) where he used “archaeologizing” as a verb. Lawrence studied archaeology at Jesus College in Oxford so it was not surprising to find his desert attire on display, when I visited Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum.
I discovered C.S. Lewis in high school and added J.R.R. Tolkien to my pantheon of great English writers in college. Somewhere along the line I developed the urge to visit Oxford to see where those two used to hang out with the rest of the Inklings. It helps to work for an organizations that has an office in Oxford, the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. I wouldn’t say that was the main reason I took this job three years ago, but it was a factor. Earlier this year myself and two colleagues went to Oxford for meetings and I took about 350 photos as I wandered around town between meetings. Presented here are the photos involving C.S. Lewis, other photos will be shared later.
Another post from 2022, moving over from another blogsite that is going to expire.
The sunlight was good for a Fungus Friday Hike in the Ridgeway Pine Relict State Natural Area
The hills and valleys of the Driftless Region.
With the Ice Age National Scenic Trail a couple of miles to the west and the University of Wisconsin Arboretum a couple of miles to the east, it’s not difficult finding a nice place to hike on a gorgeous fall morning. One morning in 2022 I took my camera along to the Arboretum.
After 2 years of COVID and other exigencies mitigating against extended travel, it felt good to finally get on the road for a short vacation out east. Usually I try to leave early enough to get through Chicago before rush hour, but this time I left later and navigated Chicago at mid-day. Traffic wasn’t too bad.
Adding a few more miles to my Ice Age Trail Travelogue, today I joined the trail in Janesville.
The neat thing about the Ice Age Trail in Janesville is that it intersects with Janesville’s extensive network of recreational trails. So I was able to bike 20 miles and walk one mile. It’s not exactly at the halfway mark of the trail.
In my younger days, when we lived on a farm, I always enjoyed the chance to go with a truckload of grain to the mill in town. That mill ran on electricity. Earlier mills built by the first European settlers ran on water power and one of those mills has been restored and is open for visitors in a Rock County park just west of Beloit.
First stop is the Creamery, which serves as the Visitors Center and souvenir store.
Exodus 1 and Exodus 2: getting through all of the homeward bound hoops out of Jordan and then out of Israel proved to be a sticky wicket.
The border crossing was additionally complicated by the COVID protocols but we finally made it back to Israel from Jordan.
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