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Dave's Bucket List
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Mount Sinai
Watching the sun rise after sleeping out on top of Mt. Sinai. Sinai Desert, Egypt, 1982. |
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Floating Torii
Miyajima, Japan
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Fushimi Inari
Kyoto, Japan
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The Golden Pavilion
Kyoto, Japan
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The Great Wall
Mutianyu, China
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Grand Canyon
South Rim, Arizona
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Swimming with sea turtles
With Ethan at Black Rock Beach, Maui
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Surfing in Maui
With Rebecca in Lahaina, Maui
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Ziplining in Maui
With Rebecca in Lahaina, Maui
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Lascaux caves
Astonishing cave art from our ancestors who lived 20,000 years ago. The cave is so fragile that the French government recreated it (to the millimeter) nearby.
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Pech Merle caves
Here you can enter the actual cave. It is overwhelming to stand next to the handprints of our ancestors from 20,000 years ago. Or to examine their paintings of mammoths!
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The Louvre
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Eiffel Tower
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Notre Dame
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The Tour de France
During our visit to Sarlat, France, we stumbled upon the Tour de France!
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La Torre del Oro
The classic bullfight bar in Madrid
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Sagrada Familia
Gaudi's wonderful cathedral in Barcelona
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Mediterranean Sea
Swimming with Ethan in Barcelona, Spain
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Stanford University
Noah's graduation
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Apartheid
I had the privilege of meeting Bishop Desmond Tutu in 1984 at UCLA. In 1987, Tim Ngubeni arranged for two South African students to visit my high school class, and my students were singing "Nkosi Sikeleli" for days afterward. Later that year, I was able to listen to Oliver Tambo when he visited LA. And in 1990, we participated in "Inglewood For Mandela" and heard Nelson Mendela in the LA Coliseum! |
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Sea of Galilee
I was an exchange student at the University of Haifa in 1982-83 and camped at Kinneret many times. I took my family there when they visited and went swimming with my dad in 1983.
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Jordan River
With my dad in Israel, 1983
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Dead Sea
With my mom and sister in Israel, 1983
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Western Wall
With my family in Jerusalem, 1983
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Golan Heights and Mount Hermon
I took my family to visit some of my dear Druze friends in the Golan, 1983.
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Pyramids of Giza
I spent a month traveling through Egypt in January, 1983. Here is my friend Danny - I don't have a picture of myself. My Egyptian friend, Maha, toured me around, and we climbed into the heart of Khufu's pyramid.
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The Sphinx
After climbing into the heart of Khufu's pyramid Maha took me to see the Sphinx. |
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Egyptian Museum
My friend Bob and I spent the day here. Cairo, 1983.
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Sailing by felucca down the Nile
I joined my UC classmates and we watched the sunset over the Nile. |
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Luxor and Thebes
A beautiful train ride along the Nile from Cairo to this stunning place. Luxor, Karnak, Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens. |
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Snorkeling in the Red Sea
My friend Reuben and I spent a couple of weeks traveling the Sinai, snorkeling every day. I have no pictures of my own, but this captures the feeling - although there was almost no one else there in 1982!
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Gaelic Scotland - Isles of Harris and Lewis
With my sister in 1983. Our B&B hostess invited us to attend her Bible study - in Gaelic! The next day she invited us to her Gaelic church service. The congregation chanted the Psalms in Gaelic for the first hour - it was haunting and absolutely gorgeous. Search "Gaelic Psalms from Lewis" to experience it.
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Orkney Islands
With my sister at the Ring of Brodgar, near the Standing Stones of Stenness, 1983
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Oaxacan friends in Baja
With my roommate, Dan, in San Vicente, Baja California, 1984-85. We made many trips to work with our Oaxacan friends in their fields, play with the kids, and learn a bit of their language, Mixteco.
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Denali
Hiking and camping by myself in Alaska, 1984
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Na Pali Coast
Hiking and camping by myself, Kauai, 1984
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Volcanoes National Park
Big Island of Hawaii, 1984
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State Cross Country Meet
I qualified for the Illinois Varsity State Cross Country meet as a sophomore, and ran a 4:25 mile as a sophomore. These were the highlights of my running career, before we moved away from Chicago before my Junior year. New Trier West High School, Northfield, Illinois, 1977.
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Humans Land on the Moon
I was visiting my great-grandpa in Lincoln, Nebraska, in July of 1969, seven years old. My great-grandpa, who was born in 1888, about 15 years before the Wright Brothers flew the first airplane, was astounded and he shook his head as he watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. |
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