kotay.net - Keith - Travel

Quote of the day: "From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man--the function of his reasoning mind." --Ayn Rand

Actually I'm something of a homebody--I don't have an intense wanderlust to see the far corners of the world (did you know that philosopher Immanuel Kant never left his hometown?). However, despite my tendency to hang out at home, I've managed to visit many places (I'm not including anything in the northeast U.S. which I'm considering my "home turf"):

• Canada: Montreal (1967) [World's Fair]
• Texas: Witchita Falls (1976)
• Ohio: Athens (1980)
• California: San Francisco (1983)
• Virginia: Blacksburg (1983)
• Canada: Rideau Lake (1983)
• 1986 Carribean Trip [photographing Halley's Comet]
  Aruba: Oranjestad
  Curacao: Willemstad
• Virginia: somewhere near the NC border (1986) [photographing Halley's Comet]
• 1987 Solo Bike Ride to North Carolina
  Delaware
  Maryland: Ocean City
  Virginia: Williamstown
  North Carolina: Cape Hatteras
• California: Los Angeles (1988)
• Georgia: Atlanta (1990)
• 1991 Western U.S. Trip
  • Colorado: Denver, Gunnison
  • California: San Jose, Yosemite
• Mexico: Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, Cabo San Lucas (1991)
• Ohio: Columbus (1994)
• North Carolina: Great Smoky Mountains National Park (1993) [70 mile hike of the Appalachian Trail]
• Japan: Osaka, Tokyo, Tsukuba (1996)
• Japan: Tsukuba, Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka (1997) [NSF Summer Program in Japan]
• 1997 Europe Trip
  • France: Grenoble
  • Belgium: Mons
• 1998 Europe Trip
  • Belgium: Leuven (1998)
  • Holland: Amsterdam (1998)
• Canada: Victoria (1998)
• Japan: Tokyo, Takamatsu (2000)
• 2001 Asia Trip
  • South Korea: Seoul
  • Japan: Tsukuba, Tokyo
• Japan: Tsukuba, Sendai, Tokyo (2004)
• Spain: Barcelona (2005)
• Canada: Montreal (2005)
• Mexico: Mexico City, Tulum (2006)