Please share some of our 2012 in photos | |||
Our 2012 actually began in mid-December 2011, when we flew to Cape Town, South Africa, where we spent a week before boarding Oceania's ship Nautica for a 35-day cruise to Singapore. | |||
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Wine tasting in Stellenbosch | Mandatory Pilgrimages to several of Cecil Rhodes' Statues | ||
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Cape of Good Hope | With children picking up trash in Kayamandi Township | ||
On Safari in Shamwari Game Reserve near Port Elizabeth, South Africa | |||
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Cruising on the Indian Ocean toward India, Sri Lanka, Thailand & Singapore | |||
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French Comoros | Lemur atttack in Madagascar | ||
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Seychelles Islands | Phuket, Thailand | ||
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Galle, Sri Lanka | Singapore - End of the cruise | ||
Meanwhile, back in Los Altos . . . | |||
On Valentine's Day 2012, Paul was back in the hospital - his
third stay since July 2, 2011 - with an apparent kidney problem that
evidently disappeared as mysteriously as it came. The photos show the effect of the Prednisone that he was taking for his ITP low platelet blood disease, not that he ate and drank too much on the cruise! |
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We spent time at the cabin we co-own on Pine Mountain Lake, near Groveland, CA | |||
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We twice visited Amy who works for the U.S. State Department in Washington, DC. | |||
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In DC, we enjoy staying at the Anderson House, home of The Society of
the Cincinnati of which Paul is a member. www.societyofthecincinnati.org |
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Home improvements in Los Altos | |||
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We lost two redwood trees that we planted in the 1980s. | But Karen finally gained her dream new driveway! | ||
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Erik earned his MPA degree in Health Services Administration. | Amy with Phantom on a visit to Los Altos | ||
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We enjoyed a visit from Iben (our Danish au pair in
1985-6), her husband Erik & younger son Nicolai |
Five Van Buren men: Paul, Shaun, Red (on his 93rd B-day), Phil & Brent - Albany, OR - Sadly, we lost Red on Dec. 18 | ||
In early October, we went
to South Dakota for The University of South Dakota's Dakota Days (homecoming). |
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USD's Old Main | USD's DakotaDome - Home of the Coyotes! | ||
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With Governor Dennis Daugaard who is from Paul's hometown | A mini-reunion of Paul's Dell Rapids school class | ||
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Main Street of Dell Rapids, SD, Paul's hometown | A typical South Dakota farm boy in one of his fields | ||
Medical Report: On July 9, Paul went off the Prednisone that he had been taking for the ITP low platelet blood disease, and the next series of blood tests were good. But in mid-October his platelet count dropped, so the hematologist MD put him back on a 10 mg daily dosage of Prednisone as a preventive measure for our upcoming trip. Now he is reducing his daily doses in the hope of getting off it again. | |||
In late October 2012, we flew to NYC where we spent a week and from where our 25-day cruise on Oceania's ship Regatta to Manaus, Brazil (a thousand miles up the Amazon River) and back to Miami was to supposed to depart. But because of Super Storm Sandy, we sailed from Boston instead. Amy was able to travel with us on the cruise. | |||
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"Weathering" the storm in Manhattan | |||
Cruising from Boston through the Caribbean toward the Amazon River | |||
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Saint Barts | With Amy in Saint Lucia | ||
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Santarem, on the Amazon River, in Brazil | Boca da la Valeria, on the Amazon River, in Brazil | ||
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Karen swimming with the pink Dolphins in the Rio Negro, Brazil | Boating up the Valeria River, Brazil | ||
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With our Australian traveling friends, Rob & Meg Thomas | On a warm & humid day overlooking Devils Island | ||
Stanford had a another great football season, 11 wins and only 2 loses, and will play Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl on New Years Day 2013 | |||
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Pac-12 Championship game at
Stanford Stadium on a cool, rainy November 30 - Stanford 27, UCLA 24 |
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Paul & Karen
Van Buren Los Altos, CA |
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