Pictures of Traveling with
Don & Mary Sondergeld (See On The Go for
each year for more details
We have 225 photo albums
from 1960 thru 2003. Here is an index.
1971
Wood's Causeway Motel in Vineyard Haven on Martha's Vineyard (Amy
& Karla,
Karen & Amy & Karla, Family
1972 thru
Williamsburg, Virginia to
Cape Hatteras North Carolina,
1973 with Don's parents
at
Lake Keuka, one of the Finger Lakes in New York.
1979 Canadian Rockies with
David in Banff, Lake Louise in June
Canadian Rockies Pictures
1984 England & Wales
(Don Mary Karla & Eric)
Some pictures of England and Wales
1984 Karen & Duncan Wedding
August
18, 1984
Event
locations
Rehearsal
Dinner
Pre Wedding
afternoon festivities
Wedding
1985 Abbey Life in Bournemouth England, Rannaus in
Marburg, and First Meeting Sondergeld Family in
Unterhaun on September 10,
1985 See
these pictures
1986
Don in England & Germany in February See England & Germany 1986
1987 Sussex
England with Amy and Michelle
Late May 1987 Don
met Amy and Michelle for a
three day
weekend in Sussex and Kent.
See
Sussex & Kent England in May 1987
1987
Europe: Don Mary Amy Karla & Megan Donahue
June 25 - July 20 Europe 1987
Megan turned 18
1988 Eric & Cindy Wedding in July
Eric's
Wedding
1989 Amy & Lou Wedding in June
Amy's Wedding
1990 Sophie Sondergeld & Heinrich
Schott
from Hesse, Germany visit USA Late June to late
July
See
1990 Invasion
from Hesse
1990 Don is 60 in Upper Montclair N J in November
See 60th Celebration
1991
Society of Actuaries Meeting in Toronto in November -
Don is now President
Mary with Colin Powell
1991
Later in November we
visited the Cooleys in England & attended the biennial meeting of the Institute
of Actuaries
held at Grosvenor House in
London.
See Slide Show
Don with British Actuaries
British
Actuary Paul Seymour
1991 We then took the jet foil from Dover to Bruges
in November 1991 and
visited an international actuarial
organization in Brussels.. Andre Lamens,
its president and his wife, hosted a dinner at The Swan, a fantastic
restaurant in the
old city. As we were in Europe we went on our own to Paris,
Chartres, Versailles,
Fontainebleau and Loire Valley.
See Slide Show
1992 Asia
Tokyo, Singapore, Indonesia (Jakarta and Bali) and Hong Kong
Don at Nankai University
Mary in Beijing
China (Beijing, Xian, and Shanghai), and Hong Kong
Taiwan.
1992 Mexico
In Mexico City with Barry Watson, Mo Chambers, and Pablo Noriega.
1992 Don and Mary's 35th Wedding
Anniversary in Hubbardton in
August
See
pictures
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1992 Annual Meeting of Society of Actuaries in Chicago
Don
with SoA President's Medal of Office
Don and Mary in Chicago Don's
Presidential Address.
1993 David & Shelley Wedding at Blacksmith Tavern in
Glastonbury, CT in February
See
pictures
1994 Australia & New Zealand February 14 thru
March 22
Queensland
pics.
Beautiful Sydney
Through the
Snowy mountains to Melbourne
Don and Mary in Kuranda Neville
and Joy Sondergeld in Toowoomba
New Zealand
Map
Auckland
1994 Joy and Neville Sondergeld from Queensland, Australia
visited USA in July
Australian
Invasion pictures.
1994 Herlinde, Hermann, & Alexander Eimer-Sondergeld
from Kassel, Germany visited USA
See
Kassel
Invasion August 1994
1995 Colorado Skiing at Steamboat Springs with Steve &
Sandy Earl Feb 27 thru March 5
1995 Utah Skiing at Alta
with Walt & Millie Rugland March 6
thu March 12
Don and Mary in Alta, Utah
1995 California with David and Skiing at Tahoe
March 13 thru March 20
1996 Great Abaco
Island in Bahamas with John & Connie Towne in April
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
1996 Alaska With Bev & Jack Grald and Stan & Harriet
Joseph June 21 thru July 12
See
http://parks.mapquest.com/national-parks/katmai-national-park-and-preserve/Anchorage & Brooks Lodge
Fairbanks & Denali
Kenai Peninsula Glacier Bay & Juneau
1996 Karla's
Wedding at Lilac Inn in Brandon Vermont on July 20
Many pictures.
Dancing
With Siblings
1997 Germany Austria & Cortina, Italy: Steve &
Sandy Earl and Peter Sondergeld February 26 thru
March 24
A
slide show of the pictures. Peter
Sondergeld in Italian Alps
Sophie Sondergeld and Heinrich Schott in Oberhaun Germany
1998 Scandinavia & Russia June 11 thru June 30
SLIDE SHOW OF DENMARK
SLIDE SHOW OF NORWAY. SLIDE
SHOW OF SWEDEN.
SLIDE
SHOW OF FINLAND.
SLIDE SHOW OF RUSSIA
Moscow
Don in Moscow
SLIDE SHOW OF ROME ITALY.
1999 Meribel
& Provence March 4 thru March 26
Below, we are in Aix
Mary in the Alps
Mary the Gourmand
SLIDE SHOW OF MERIBEL. SLIDE SHOW OF PROVENCE.
1999 Africa (Kenya & Tanzania) June 4
thru 20
African Dancers
Don and Mary at a Watering Hole
1999 Peter, Gregor, Lucas Sondergeld & Mike Wallner from
Munich visit USA in August
Here are some pics of the
Bavarian Invasion. Details are in On The Go
2000 Equador Galapagos & Peru
April 28 thru May 18
Equador and the Amazon
Galapagos Islands and its uniqueness
Peru
and beautiful Cusco and Machu Picchu.
2000 Don Celebrates 70th Birthday in Naples Florida in
November
See 70th Celebration
2001 France Spain & Portugal
March 8 thru March 28
A great three weeks.
SEE A SLIDE SHOW
France Skied Val d Isere went to
Paris then to northern Spain and then to the "Algarve" in southern Portugal.
Spain
(Basque area along the Bay of Biscay)
Hondarribia Dining Hondarribia
View
Guggenheim Guernica
Picture
Portugal The Algarve from
Arabic
al-Gharb "the West"
The western part of the southern
area of the Iberian Penninsula
Dolly Schlingensiepen's Casa Tres Palmeiras in
Portimao.http://casatrespalmeiras.com/gallery
.
Don's Sweet Tooth Mary
and Dolly
Beach below Dolly's
Sailing in Portugal
Land's End in Portugal
Vila Joya
http://www.vilajoya.com/
in Albufeira
2002 45th Wedding Anniversary at CC in Middlebury
VT in August
45th Wedding Anniversary Picture
2003 Victoria BC June
21 thru July 3
Tigh Na Mara
Empress Hotel Don
and Mary in BC
Bald Eagle
Black Bear
Wickaninnish Inn
Orcas
2004 Ireland with
Stan & Harriet Joseph
May 4 thru May 14
Album
1
Album 2
Album 3
Molly Malone
Guinness
Blarney Castle
Cashel House
Cashel House Bedroom Irish
Coast
Cliffs of Moher
Fjord
Ashford Castle
2004 Mary's 70th birthday
Party held
on June 26 at the lake under a 30x30 foot tent, with a caterer & a DJ.
PICTURE FILE, Family
Extended Family
Grandchildren
Tent
Singers
Karen & Don
Cake
Dancers:
Don & Mary
David & Eric
David & Karla
David & Shelley
Connie & Owen
Izzumi,
Kevin, & Mia
Karen
Cindy Harriet
Nuts on the Float
Allison Chris & Simon
David & Amy
Aleksey & Zach
Eric Cindy & Alexei
Don & Izzumi
Beebe Pond
Lake House
2005 Italy
(Sicily then Sorrento area) May 5 thru May 21
Palermo
Agrigento
Siracusa
Taormina
Maratea
Sorrento
Mount Vesuvius
Positano
Pompeii
Herculaneum
hip
Capri
Blue
Grotto.
1 Palermo
2 Erice
3 Agrigento
4 Siracusa
5 Mazzaro & Taorimina
6 Marratea
7 Sorrento
8 Amalfi Coast
9 Pompei & Vesuvius
10 Capri 11
Herculaneum
12 Naples
13 More Sorrento
14 Near Rome Airport
2006 Dominica &
Guadeloupe February 16-24 (Mary & Brita Tate)
Slide Show
Carnival
Staff at Papillote.
2006
Iceland May 30thru June 8
Jonis Runolfsson and tour guide
Margret Einarsdottir.
Caroline
Foss (waterfall),
on the
moon, by the
ocean, by the
sea, seeing
mountains, at another
waterfall,
in a
glacial lagoon, another
waterfall, more
mountains
lava
hiking
Viking
Gullfoss
geysir
whale watching boat.
sheep
sod house
eider duck
other ducks
Icelandic Horse
Blue Lagoon.
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
Day 7
Day 8
Day 9
2007 Danube with
Jack & Bev Grald June 14 thru June 29
Eastern Europe We traveled the last two weeks on a Grand Circle Tour of Eastern Europe with our friends Bev and
Jack Grald. We enjoyed three days in beautiful Prague in the
Czech Republic followed by a bus trip to Bratislava in Slovakia
for lunch and on to
Budapest in Hungary for 2 days. We then boarded the
M/S Aria a wonderful river boat (410 feet long and 38 feet wide) that
carried 129 of us on the Danube. We sailed at nite and went on guided
sightseeing trips in cities along the way: Vukovar in Croatia, Belgrade in
Serbia, Veliko Tarnova and Arbanassi in Bulgaria (where we saw
fields of
sunflowers), and thru a canal to Constanta, Romania's chief port on the
Black Sea, where
Mary and Bev went swimming. Although some are EU countries,
none of them use the Euro. We had to use local currency in all of
them, although US dollars were OK in a few.
COUNTRY |
Capital |
Population in millions |
Bulgaria |
Sofia |
3.5 |
Croatia |
Zagreb |
3.1 |
Czech Republic |
Prague |
2.8 |
Hungary |
Budapest |
10.1 |
Romania |
Buchrest |
21.7 |
Serbia |
Belgrade |
7.5 |
Slovakia |
Bratislava |
5.2 |
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A Chi Omega on our tour was
Marilyn Jackson Shuler, Mary's sorority sister who also lived in the Chi
Omega house in Ann Arbor. Although we traveled with Bev and Jack Grald,
six of us usually dined together. Our new friends are
Bob and Jeanne Levan from 79th Street in Manhattan.
Prague We saw many beautiful buildings but also visited
the old Jewish cemetery downtown and the new Jewish cemetery next to our
hotel.
By the sixteenth century, Prague was the center
of Jewish life in Europe.
The
oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe was founded in Prague in 1478. The lack of
space forced people to bury the dead on top of each other. It is amazing to
imagine how it was possible to bury over 100.000 people in such a small
space, but there are 12 layers of tombs. The most prominent person
buried in the Old Jewish Cemetery is the great religious scholar and teacher
Judah Loew ben Bezalel, known as
Rabbi
Loew
(1520-1609), who is associated with the legend of the Golem.
In the abutting Pinkas synagogue, the
walls are painted with over 80,000 names of the Jews that were deported
from Prague and killed in WW2. We also visited the new cemetery and
saw the grave of the writer
Franz Kafka (1883-1924).
Budapest, Hungary was lovely with Buda on one side of the Danube
and Pest on the other. Budapest is the capitol of Hungary. Mary
especially enjoyed the
dining in Pest. A
luncheon picture in Budapest.
Vukovar, Croatia Historically the boundary between
countries, has seen many wars. Recently, in the war resulting from
Croatia declaring independence,
Vukovar fell to the
Serbs in November 1991 after a three-month siege and the
Vukovar massacre took
place. Survivors were transported to prison camps. The town of Vukovar
was almost completely destroyed. A monument is there depicting the
rebuilding of Vukovar from this tragedy as well as a newer monument of
6 candles in commemoration of the 6 million Jews who died in the World
War 2 holocaust.
Belgrade Serbia this large city is the
capital of Serbia
Veliko Tarnova, Bulgaria A historical
city, at one time the capital.
Bucharest, Romania The most beautiful part of the Danube was
thru a section called the
Iron Gates with high cliffs on both sides of the river, which was the
only day we did not go ashore. there the river flows between Romania and
Serbia From Constanta we took a 4.5 hour train
ride about 150 miles to Bucharest, Romania for our last two nights before
flying back to Boston. A very educational trip. We did not
really appreciate fully the war torn history of these small countries, each
about the size of one of our states, and the horrible life under communism,
which ended not too long ago.
The Canal from Constanta on the Black Sea to the Danube is about 40
miles long and saves about 300 miles of travel on the Danube. It was
notorious as the site of labor camps in 1950s in
Communist Romania, when, at any given time,
several tens of thousands of
political prisoners worked on its
excavation. The total number of people used as a workforce for the entire
period is unknown, as is the number of people who were killed in the
process. Work was completed in 1984-1987, more than three decades after
camps were disestablished. Someone said the canal was the only good end
result under communism. Here we are
at dinner on board the M/S Aria.
2007 Danube Photo Albums:
Prague
Slovakia to Hungary
Budapest
Croatia
Belgrade
Iron Gates 1
Iron Gates 2
Bulgaria
Black Sea
Canal
Train to
Bucharest
Bucharest
Bucharest to
Boston
2007 50th Wedding Anniversary Friday August 3, 2007
2007 John & Connie's 40th Wedding Anniversary at
Muscongus Bay in Bremen, Maine September 9
Their
new home on Muscongus
Bay. Dinner and dancing to a four piece combo under a
tent attended by 70. .
John, Connie, Allison and Nate plus
Allison and Chris
DiMatteo.
2008 Egypt with
Bev & Jack Grald February 23 thru March 7
Steve and Sandy Earl, Jack and Bev Grald, Anne Holland, and
David Westring
Pyramids
Alexandria on the
Mediterranean and beautiful
library
on the Nile
Nubian Dwarf Don took a
ride on a camel
big head
large mouth.
Mary with Don and the camel. Edfu and Kom Ombo and
visited
temples.
Took a
Felucca (sail boat) ride. Here are Mary and Sandy Earl
in their galabeyas.
armed policemen
The
machine gun on the stern of the top deck of our ship.
Two Photo Albums:
First Half
Second Hal
2009 Costa Rica
February 6thru February 22
Laguna Lodge
Anhinga babies
howler monkeys,
tree frogs,
J C lizard (which walks on water)
Some professional pics
Arenal
volcano
toucans
"Hawk-Eagle".
Don went zip lining
Tabican Hot Springs
Arenal Volcano area Fonda Vela Lodge (near the
Trapp Family Lodge)
many crocs
Marie and Eric Hanse from the Netherlands)
the Pacific
sunset and dinner.
water rafting
Catamaran Cruise
sunset from our boat Grano de Oro Hotel and the
beautiful restaurant in that hotel.
Costa Rica Albums:
San Jose Arrival
Tortuguero National Park
To Arenal Springs
Ziplining
Hanging Bridges
To Monteverde Cloud Forest
Cloud Forest
T o Quepas
Manuel Antonio National Park
Boat Trips
White Water Rafting
San Jose Departure
NY Times April 13, 2014
map of Costa Rico
Some Pictures From Costa Rico.
More Pictures from Costa Rica.
2009 Panama
Panama
City Tour
skyscrapers
all day transit
frigate birds.
Great view of the canal
Panama Albums:
Arrival
City Tour
Full Transit of Canal
Departure
Pictures from Panama.
2009 Georgian Bay, Ontario
September 8 thru September 15
Here are two large Inuksuks:
u
u2
Killarney Lodge.
Island Queen.
Inn at Manitou
The Little Lake B&B
(www.littlelakeinn.com)
birds of prey. Mary and a
red tailed hawk.
Georgian Queen
Island Princess on the Trent Canal.
Island Queen through the Thousand Islands.
2010 Monterey,
Carmel, and San Francisco
March 3 thru March 10
Carmel and Monterey.
2010 Amy
& Tom Kullgren Wedding in VT Waybury Inn in
East Middlebury in August
Amy & Tom
Here are
a few pictures.
2010 Vancouver & Victoria, BC
October 5 thru October 14
See
very humorous article about new statue of Emily Carr
Fantastic Butchart Gardens
Here are a few
PICTURES
2011
Owen Graduates from High School in late May in California
2011
California & Yosemite May 24 thru June 3
Pictures
from Yosemite.
2014 Mary is 80 in Vermont
Pictures of the event
on June 11
2015
NateTowne's Marriage Celebration in Bremen Maine July
11 100 in attendance
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Mary, doing what
Maniacs love to do
2016
Canada May 28 thru June 4 (Owen
Graduates from U BC in Vancouver)
2016 Zach's High School Graduation & Mary is 82
In
West Hartford, CT on June 11
2016 Aleksey is 21 in VT in June
2016 David & Kit Wedding in CA September
25
An extensive
hodge hodge of pictures
in Half Moon Bay
After the wedding we drove to
Monterey and stayed at the Hyatt Monterey. We then drove 10 miles
south to California's terrific Point Lobos State Natural Reserve
http://www.pointlobos.org/
with its breath taking beauty where Don took a lot of pictures. We
then had lunch at the Hyatt Carmel Highlands on a cliff overlooking Point
Lobos.
Before returning to Vermont, we joined Karen and Ryan for Karen's
birthday dinner at The Fish Market in San Mateo.
2016 Family: Amy Karla & Eric in CT October 16
Family Picture
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2016 Family: Amy David & Eric in VT
December 26
Family Picture
2017 Family: Eric's Birthday in CT
April 29 at Karla's
Slide Show
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