We’re under the 60 day mark now and time is starting to become more evident. On a personal level I’m done with the vaccinations I picked and have appointments with all the doctors in late December or early January. I’ve also been wearing/breaking in the various clothes I selected for the voyage. Generally it should be warm to hot on the trip so I don’t plan on taking any winter-type clothes. Likely take a jacket that could work should I encounter any cooler weather anywhere as the sole response to that possibility. If nothing else, various ports will have appropriate weather clothes should I not guess right.
[Read more…] about Less Than 60 DaysProgress Report
There are now fewer days left to the start of the world cruise than there are days on the cruise. At the suggestion of my travel agent I have re-applied for a new passport in order to obtain the larger 52-page passport. She felt the regular passport would not have enough pages for visas and stamps and this might prevent me from visiting some of the ports on the trip. The application is at the processing center but not yet in the State Department tracking system.
[Read more…] about Progress ReportGetting Some Tips
Today I had the pleasure of having lunch with NLM (full name excluded for privacy), a passenger on the Pacific Princess this year (2017) when it made a round-the-world cruise similar to the one I’ll be on starting in January. I learned about NLM through a casual discussion at a doctor’s office; pure chance. We live about 150 miles apart and met in the middle for lunch.
[Read more…] about Getting Some TipsUpcoming World Cruise
This category (World Cruise) will be used from now through the middle of 2018 to document my Round-the-World cruise between 22 Jan 2018 through 14 May 2018; Los Angeles to Los Angeles. It will be a 111 day, 44 port trip on the Pacific Princess cruise ship.
[Read more…] about Upcoming World CruiseVatican Splendors Exhibit
From March through early September 2016 the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library hosted the exhibit titled Vatican Splendors; one of only two locations in the United States the exhibit was shown in its year away from the Vatican. The exhibit was organized by Texas company Evergreen Exhibitions. All copyrights and trademarks are the property of their owners. TomsFotos only claims copyright to the photos taken, with permission, at the exhibit. If you desire photos of the exhibit for commercial or other use please contact Evergreen Exhibitions. None of the photos here are authorized for use by others.
The photos below were taken over the period the exhibit was in place and show, to the extent possible, all the material exhibits on display. There was much more provided as text descriptions; these are not shown here.
The exhibit was organized into several different sections largely based on historical progression from Saint Peter through today. The presentation here is organized in a similar manner using the titles of the exhibit sections. [Photos on this page can be enlarged by clicking on them. Click outside the photo to close the box it displays in. Hover your mouse pointer over words with dotted underlines and a definition should appear in a tool-tip box.]
Lets go into the exhibit now…
Huntington Library
On 14 November 2013 I went on an excursion to the Huntington Library in San Marino, California…
My primary purpose in going was to see an exhibit featuring Junipero Serra. It was an excellent exhibit but photos were not allowed so the pictures below represent some of the other things I saw. There wasn’t time to see even a small percentage of the exhibits so my concentration was on the Serra exhibit and the Rose Hills Foundation Conservatory which houses an amazing collection of plants. Just so you see the extent, here is the map…
14 Nov 2013