2018 Travel
And, I forgot to mention my travel for last year:
Feb, Road Scholar, Albuquerque NM: New Mexico's Conversos and Crypto Jews. A study of the descendants of the Jews who left Spain during the Inquisition and ended up in NM!

May, Family wedding, Buellton CA: a great visit with my three cousins + spouses/significant other, eight of their offspring and last remaining aunt, Mom enjoyed it a lot, and I did, too.

Jun, Family reunion, Dallas TX: descendants of one of my Mom's sisters invited me to join them and we had a great time. Traveled up to OK to visit with other cousins and see the family shrines. Had a great time there, as well. I think I saw 11 of my first cousins and lots of  'once removed', (their offspring) as well as 2 of my Mom's first cousins in OK who are mine once removed, also. They shared some family photos which were found during various clean outs/downsizing efforts. I spread those around to our California kin when I got home. We were all thrilled to have them.

Sep, Transport my son, Pete, to Sequoia for his High Sierra Trail Trek: We stayed in the park for a few days so he could acclimate to altitude. We've been doing training hikes (he more than I but I did climb a few miles of Mt Pinos and reached the 8800' top). I waved goodbye and then home to provide airport transportation for my niece to go home to NOLA. Afterward I drove to San Jose to visit Mike and Katie and then down to Bakersfield (overnight break in very long and weird trip to pick up Pete). While in Bakersfield I visited the cemetery where our great grandparents are buried, wanted to make sure I could find the grave again. Then up to Lone Pine where I greeted Pete as he walked through the gate at Whitney Portal. That was one helluva hike. We stayed in LonePine for a couple of days so he could eat copious amounts of food and sleep in a bed as well as taking lots of hot showers. I always enjoy seeing my kids but I don't think I've been so happy since Pete came back from Desert Storm.

Oct, Road Scholar, Croatia. Seaside Hikes in Croatia. Wonderful. I've been thinking about another trip ever since. I'd especially like to see Dubrovnik again. A great group and wonderful Tamara was our guide. Croatia is beautiful.

Nov, no travel but more fires (in the East part of the county). The worst thing to happen, however, was the shooting of SGT Ron Helus, a former colleague of mine (he was a baby deputy when I was still working) and a colleague of my son. He was a hero. There are too many guns on the street.

I also visited Stolpmann Winery a couple of times for wine club events, I saw some art shows featuring some of my friends, tried some great new recipes with some spectacular successes and some awful failures.

I've been healthy and I'm enjoying life.