The trek has returned safely to the United States. Our final images will be posted within the next week!

The Italians have invaded. Our digs at the President are regularly invaded by other traveling groups. Being dug-in here for a week now, I am beginning to feel like it is a permanent encampment, so when the tour bus pulls up and disgorges 40 more blathering tourists, I get a little defensive. Where […]

There are so many highlights on the Digital Imaging Trek, but one of the most enriching is our trip to the Globe Theater, along the banks of the Thames, in London. This is an authentic recreation of the same theater Shakespeare used to produce many of his plays. If we were alive in the […]

Sometimes, on the trek, the insignificant and innocuous gives the traveler a window seat view on the global journey. Watching the European weather on BBC this morning, it occurred to me that weather reporting is pretty much the same all over the world – some facts and figures by a perky weather lady, clouds, […]

Leaving Paris is a bittersweet emotional experience for me. How lucky we are to be in truly lovely European capital in such a beautiful neighborhood as the 7th ARR. But as all treks chronicle, the key to the journey is the journey itself. One must not get too settled in space and time, the open […]

While it has certainly been a hectic and traumatic 24 hours, our emergency has helped focused the trekkers. Maybe a little more work, less party, and time to get serious for the slightly stressed professors. It has been a humbling experience for me, and reminds me of the fragility of our momentary presence in any […]

Each trek is filled with twists and turns and the unexpected. So it was to be on our Sunday outing to Monmarte, a classicly beautiful neighborhood overlooking the city of Paris. The faculty were hoping to complete the circuit of the historical and artistic Paris with our students by showing the Sacre Couer and […]

Sunday morning in Paris is probably not unlike any other city. Families are out and buying sunday “dejunier-midi” at the boucherie and treats at the patissiere, and perhaps it is the setting, or the company, or the fact that I am mostly exhausted from less sleep than usual, but it is beautiful, it is […]

Someone is playing a flute; something light and classical, a student rehearsal piece perhaps. The sweet notes drift up to my double window through the interior courtyard. I am sitting on the edge of my bed in a charmingly cramped European hotel enjoying a brief moment of solitude in an otherwise hyper-speed second Digital […]

Greetings, a short post on the run, having morning cafe aulait with Hilary at a local cafe. Just searching and acquiring digital wireless signal to catch up on things. It has been an unusually busy trip with a constant stream of activity. Paris reaffirms its place in the top hyper-active cities in the […]