Mixed in with my mom's slides from Asia and the Middle East taken in 1962, 1964, and 1965 were a couple boxes of slides from 1967 when she traveled to the UK and Switzerland.I like this scene from the UK (London presumably?) because it shows the old red double-decker buses, … [Read more...]

And I thought I was adventuresome for taking the bus in China.Yikes.Somewhere on the road from Baguio to Bontoc, this bus encountered a little trouble. My mom had been in the Philippines for at least six weeks when she took this photo.When I first came across this … [Read more...]

Pardon the blurry slide. I guess that's what happens to slides when they sit in a shoebox for 48 years.The summer between my mom's junior and senior years at Smith College, she traveled to the Philippines with a group of college students led by a former US Navy … [Read more...]

In 1964 my mom traveled from her home in Nagoya to attend the Olympics in Tokyo.During that trip, she snapped this photo of the relatively new Palace Hotel.What struck me about this photo is that the Palace's one and only sign is written in English. I've seen other … [Read more...]