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Tanzania: Lou Ann Brennan \u201980 and Steve Hall \u201983 summited Mount Kilimanjaro in August 2019.<\/a> England: James E. Corley Jr. \u201976 pulled out his Tiger Rag in front of the iconic Stonehenge in the English countryside.<\/a> Norway: Cathi DuRant Coutu '87, Jordan Weir '16 and Jill Weir '83, M '93 visited the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo.<\/a> Ireland: David Berry '76 in downtown Dublin posing with the famous "Molly Malone" statue.<\/a> Sri Lanka: John J. Evans Ed.D. \u201901, M \u201903, Paulette J. Evans \u201901 and Rondell A. Lee \u201905 visited the Sea Turtles Conservation and Research Centre in Ahungalla.<\/a> Canada: Mike '76 and Wylyn '80 Doherty enjoy the views of the Canadian Rockies near Lake Louise in Alberta.<\/a> Thailand: Russ Gimson \u201999 snapped a selfie overlooking Bangkok wearing his Clemson sweatshirt.<\/a> Iceland: Laine '77 and Ed \u201976 Wiedemann and Duane '11 and Emily '12 Ensor with their daughter Townes traveled to Gullfoss Falls in southwest Iceland.<\/a> Alaska: David Koblauch \u201994 and his family traveled to the Matanuska Glacier in southern Alaska.<\/a> Maine: Alan Kuester \u201969 and his friend Toney, both long-time section hikers of the Appalachian Trail, summited Mount Katahdin on Sept. 11, 2019, at an elevation of 5,267 feet.<\/a> England: Todd Hayden \u201984 participated in the Brompton World Championship bicycle race with his son: \u201c[The race is] in commuter business attire on folding bikes, handmade in London, with a Le Mans style start.\u201d<\/a> Ireland: Meredith Swain M \u201915 and Adam M \u201911, Ph.D. \u201915 Millsap brought their Tiger Rag on a trip to Ireland.<\/a> Iowa: George McCutchen \u201994, right, traveled to Iowa to hunt pheasants with his friend Jason Webb, \u201cwho operates a large trucking company all over the U.S. from Des Moines \u2014 educating all of Iowa on the reach and pride of Clemson!\u201d<\/a> Pennsylvania: William Mahoney \u201909, Greg Vaughn 75, Justin Graham \u201904, Lori Graham \u201911, Katherine Dunnigan \u201916, Caroline Gossett \u201922 and Josh Vaughn \u201906, M \u201909 attended the 2019 Army-Navy game in Philadelphia.<\/a> Liberia: Phil Reynolds '84 on an agricultural mission trip to Liberia through Mt. Horeb United Methodist Church in Lexington, S.C.<\/a> England: Ralph Ricks, feed mill manager at Morgan Poultry Center, and Ronda Ricks, admissions receptionist, visited the iconic Buckingham Palace in London.<\/a> Germany: Jyothi Rangineni \u201909, Noah Chitty \u201900, Ryan Marino \u201907, Bill Griese \u201906 and Elizabeth Chitty \u201904 (not pictured) visited Berlin during the 30th-anniversary weekend of the fall of the Berlin Wall.<\/a> Texas: Clemson Tridelta pledge sisters Jeana Kim Pistone \u201995, Kerri Miele Brison \u201995, Shannon Banks Berrian \u201995, Amy Armbruster Joy \u201995 and Danielle Cleary Sheeran \u201995 visited Austin, Texas, for a girls getaway and a stop at the University of Texas\u2019s Delta Delta Delta sorority house.<\/a> New Zealand: Jason Stone \u201900 and Carolyn Emmons \u201900 visited Slope Point, the southernmost point of New Zealand\u2019s South Island.<\/a> Canada: Kyle \u201914, Jacqueline Fontana \u201913, Keith \u201983, Gina Berger \u201984, Blake \u201912 and Luke \u201921 Summer visited Lake Agnes in Banff National Park during a family vacation in August 2019.<\/a> California: David Williams \u201877 and his wife, Wendy, took a hot air balloon ride over Lake Tahoe.<\/a> Panama: Kyle Seelman \u201820, Paul Seelman M \u201887, Ana Seelman and Tyler Seelman visited the Panama Canal over the 2019 winter holidays.<\/a> Hungary: John Winfield \u201979 and his wife, Laura, took a trip to Budapest.<\/a> Oregon: Lindsey Woods \u201909, M \u201911 traveled to Oregon to visit her friend and former architecture professor Annemarie Jacques \u201976, M \u201981, where they explored Fort Stevens State Park, including the Peter Iredale Shipwreck. \u201cWe had a ball!\u201d Woods wrote.<\/a> Georgia: Alan Wind \u201877 and his wife, Patrice, hiked to Trahlyta Falls in Vogel State Park.<\/a> Tanzania: Lou Ann Brennan \u201980 and Steve Hall \u201983 summited Mount Kilimanjaro in August 2019.<\/a> Maine: Amanda Hrubresh \u201913 and Collin \u201916 Clemons hiked Beehive Trail in Acadia National Park. \u201c[Beehive Trail] is only 1.4 miles long, but you gain 488 feet in elevation and often climb up vertically on iron rungs, bridges, and hand and foot holds,\u201d Amanda wrote.<\/a> New Zealand: Teresa Houston Haas '76 and her husband, Dale, on top of Franz Joseph Glacier in January 2020.<\/a> Chile: Piyusha Khanna \u201916 took a solo backpacking trip in the Chilean Patagonia region in December 2019 to complete the W Trek. "This was on the last day. I started at 3:30 in the morning to reach the base of the towers by sunrise, but the weather got really bad,\u201d Khanna wrote. "I, along with a couple of other early hikers, sat under a huge rock for over 2 hours while it was raining. The struggle made us appreciate and enjoy the views even more!"<\/a> Italy: Al Johnson \u201987 and his wife, Karla, visited the historic Colosseum in Rome.<\/a> New York: Henry McGill III \u201909 and Amanda Trujillo McGill \u201908 visited the World Trade Center Transportation Hub Oculus in New York City.<\/a> California: Laura Kline \u201908, M \u201910 and Jason Fulmer \u201909, both civil engineering graduates who work in road and bridge construction, visited the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on their first trip to California.<\/a> France: Eva Nance \u201989 visited the Louvre in Paris while traveling on sabbatical.<\/a> Africa Carole Wilson \u201971, M \u201973 and Ron \u201972 Oakley traveled to the sand dunes of Senegal.<\/a> <\/a> Ecuador: Lindsay '03 and Kevin '03 Thalinger took their kids, Addyson and Jackson (pictured), on a trip to the Gal\u00e1pagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean, where they saw giant tortoises and swam with a whale shark: "They say it is a one-in-a-million chance for that to happen!"<\/a> Ireland: Haley Vivona \u201919 and Mary Web Adams \u201919, both health science majors, took a trip to Ireland, visiting the famous Cliffs of Moher, to celebrate their graduation from Clemson.<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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