Travel Schedule

Many of you have asked where we are in this incredible traveling year. I have just bought my tickets for the spring and can now answer some of these questions.

For those who didn't know, we have been here in Lund, Sweden for 5 months while Ed has done research on climate change 6000 years ago by looking at samples from Michigan peat bogs. I have of course been busy painting and meeting people who are interested in the arts.

Jan. 9th we take the train to Potsdam, Germany by way of Copenhagen and Frankfurt. My understanding is that the whole train goes onto a ferry at one point. Ed will be writing papers on his Indian research with his colleague Dan Harlov when we get to Potsdam.

Feb. 1 I fly to India to continue my work at Nirman, teach art and paint. March 8 is the festival of Holi where people throw colored powders all over each other's clothes and have great fun being silly.

March Ed goes back to the US. He will have a brief stay at our house, visit his family in Tennessee and go to St Paul, MN for more research and to learn some geologic research techniques. He will be there until late April I think. March 10th I go to Bangkok, Thailand where I will teach art at two different non profit organizations, one in Bangkok and the other in northern Thailand. These non profits deal with giving street children education and living skills.

Mid April I go to Ankor Wat in Cambodia for a week to see the ruins and paint. In late April I go to Hanoi.

May I will travel from Hanoi to Halong Bay and take a train south to the border of North and South Vietnam and then on to Ho Chi Minh City. I will have two weeks to paint and travel here. May 13 I fly back to Copenhagen and take the train back to Lund. I have an art exhibit lined up in the village of Bjarred for the end of May, into June and part of July. In late May, Ed will return to Lund, Sweden also to do more research as he wasn't able to finish up his work by January and he was getting very interesting results. So we will meet again.

Through the summer Ed and I will be in Sweden and hopefully make it north of the Artic Circle or to Europe for our vacation. We return to Holland, Michigan in August so that Ed can start preparing for his teaching schedule.

September I hope to have an exhibit in Holland, Michigan of some of my paintings and give some talks about my travels across the earth.

In October and November I will return to India again to work with Nirman helping the American students. I hope and plan to be back by Thanksgiving.

So it will be a while before we are back home and settled back in Holland. Please stay in touch with me. I love to get your emails and hear how you are doing and I always respond. While I am not a person who gets homesick very often, you are all on my mind and I think of you often.