My Travel Photos

No matter where you travel,

North, south, west or east,

The critical turn always comes

Where the map is creased.

Updated 18 March 2009: I have cut back on the photos using only ones that are interesting as locations or are good photography. To see almost all the photos of all the trips, go to http://picasaweb.google.com/glennrussellford

Not all the photos are mine. Where photos are used that are not mine, I try to acknowledge the photographer.

Antarctica: 2009 The trip was a cruise of the Antarctic Archipelago and a few landings on the mainland. We sailed from Ushuaia which is a beautiful city on the Beagle Channel. It is the most Austral (southerly) city in the world. We went to 67.33.9 latitude, a full degree past the Antarctic Circle. My trip included a Trek and Motor in Tierra del Fuego park before the cruise and a 4-wheel jeep trek in the Andes.

Australia 2006 We had a good group and except for about 36 straight hours of rain at Dunk Island View campground, we had good weather. I spent an extra day before and two days after the tour in Sydney. The Anzac memorial and park were the day before and the harbour and zoo where taken the days after.

Brazil: Iguacu: 2005 This tour started in Rio de Janeiro and then to Ilha Grande to Iguaçu to Monte Video and Colonia and then to Buenos Aeries. Although there were things to do and see everywhere, Iguaçu was obviously the highlight. I Iguacu is higher and has more water flow that Niagara Falls. It was a little early in the season for Ilha Grande. We spent a day at Salto Hot Springs getting manicures, pedicures and massages; only one picture.

Canada

Alberta: My sister Kaye and brother-in-law Norm drove me over much of the south east of the province. Writing-on-Stone (WOS) Provincial Park was the highlight but Cypress Hills was interesting. It is the highest point between the Rockies and Quebec. I’ve added pictures of Ferintosh from my last visit in 2007.

Baffin Island: I did this one on my own. Nothing so far has come close to the thrill of walking in the gap in the mountains, alone. If you go, do not depend on outfitters to supply you; there are few. There are tour providers that do a much more extensive tours when you book ahead and they look after all that stuff. When I did the tour, Baffin Island was in the North West Territories. The Inuit (aboriginals) have created a new territory Nunavut.

Newfoundland: I took Tyler back to school and we toured the island together. After I dropped him off in St John’s I toured the Avalon Peninsula and took the long ferry back to the mainland. There were many interesting places but the trip on dirt bicycles in search of the spout was probably the highlight.

Ontario: On the canoe trips the photos are mine, my daughters or my sons. I added more pictures of the Emerald Necklace, Home Fires and some wildlife in town.

Quebec: Three pictures of Quebec City, a fishing trip into Laverandre Park and a few pictures just across the river.

Yukon and Alaska: I traveled from Whitehorse to Skagway back to Whitehorse to Dawson City to Tok to Fairbanks to Anchorage to Tok to Whitehorse, with a little tour down towards Teslin. There are a lot of bugs in the north from mid May to mid August. The Yukon has more moose than people. Don’t travel after dark unless you are desperate to meet a moose, or elk. One campground would not let me camp because there were bears around but another one did. There is lots of wildlife.

Equador: 2002 After a day in Quito, we flew to the Galapagos and toured the islands. The guide said it was El Niño that caused there to be so few penguins and flamingos. I used less than half my pictures of this tour.

Egypt: 2002 We started in Cairo, took the train to Aswan and sailed down the Nile on feluccas. Eating and sleeping on the deck for four days makes you lethargic. One picture of locals hand loading boulders into a boat has my foot in it After Luxor, we toured the Valley of the Kings. After that we toured the western desert. I tried to paper scrapbook my photos with less skill than required. Some of the pictures in this file were altered for that effort

Iceland: At Landmannalauger, we started out on a hike and I had no good film. I have used the photos of the Swiss Lady, Matts’ mother. Those are the only notes I have left on her. This was my first tour. Again the group was good and no rain. Iceland boasts of the having the first parliament in the world when 23 tribal chiefs meet to organize their efforts. Thingvellir was where they met. Their present parliament building would not hold many more than 23. They also claim the first elected female head of state. I stayed a couple of extra days to tour the south shore of the island.

Japan: 1998 My daughter was teaching in a small city, Tatsuno. There are lots of pictures of the city. Except for Mount Misen, this was touring of cities and temples and castles; all of which were interesting but not my usual tour. Most gardens and castles have a gate that visitors use. Apparently some are purposely low to make everyone bow when they enter.

Mexico: I stayed in the town, not in a fancy resort and arranged my own tours and ate in various places; didn’t save much money, but I did get to meet more of the real people. It was a good rest.

Peru: 2002 We started in Lima, went to Cusco then Machu Picchu back to Cusco and then Lima. I only used about half my pictures of Machu Picchu. We then flew to Iquitos were we boarded a boat and went down the Amazon to Leticia Columbia where we caught a plane to Quito.

United States of America

Arizona: Another trip with Kaye and Norm. The day after I arrived, I took a bus tour to the Grand Canyon. The next day we started touring. As for gambling, I was taking a statistics course at the time and had just finished probability; it is not as much fun when you know the odds are very much against you.

New Mexico: 2003 This was a driving tour. New Mexico was the home of the Pueblo people. They have been gone 800 years. The ruins indicate they were fairly well advanced and became farmers in this hostile climate.

Smokey Mountains: The trip was what the military call adventure training or team building. We were about even military and civilian. We got an inch of rain the first night. Although we camped in North Carolina we spent a bit of time in South Carolina and Tennessee. We climbed, hiked, dirt bicycling and white water rafting. Although called Smokey it is clouds.

Family: I inherited Elva’s pictures and have added a lot her and Elsie in their younger days. And there were pictures of the gatherings we had for Elva.

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