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June 12, 2020 / in Travelers / 0 Comments / by: Sara Ann Hutto Grant ’17

Tanzania: Lou Ann Brennan ’80 and Steve Hall ’83 summited Mount Kilimanjaro in August 2019.

England: James E. Corley Jr. ’76 pulled out his Tiger Rag in front of the iconic Stonehenge in the English countryside.

Norway: Cathi DuRant Coutu '87, Jordan Weir '16 and Jill Weir '83, M '93 visited the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo.

Ireland: David Berry '76 in downtown Dublin posing with the famous "Molly Malone" statue.

Sri Lanka: John J. Evans Ed.D. ’01, M ’03, Paulette J. Evans ’01 and Rondell A. Lee ’05 visited the Sea Turtles Conservation and Research Centre in Ahungalla.

Canada: Mike '76 and Wylyn '80 Doherty enjoy the views of the Canadian Rockies near Lake Louise in Alberta.

Thailand: Russ Gimson ’99 snapped a selfie overlooking Bangkok wearing his Clemson sweatshirt.

Iceland: Laine '77 and Ed ’76 Wiedemann and Duane '11 and Emily '12 Ensor with their daughter Townes traveled to Gullfoss Falls in southwest Iceland.

Alaska: David Koblauch ’94 and his family traveled to the Matanuska Glacier in southern Alaska.

Maine: Alan Kuester ’69 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.

England: Todd Hayden ’84 participated in the Brompton World Championship bicycle race with his son: “[The race is] in commuter business attire on folding bikes, handmade in London, with a Le Mans style start.”

Ireland: Meredith Swain M ’15 and Adam M ’11, Ph.D. ’15 Millsap brought their Tiger Rag on a trip to Ireland.

Iowa: George McCutchen ’94, right, traveled to Iowa to hunt pheasants with his friend Jason Webb, “who operates a large trucking company all over the U.S. from Des Moines — educating all of Iowa on the reach and pride of Clemson!”

Pennsylvania: William Mahoney ’09, Greg Vaughn 75, Justin Graham ’04, Lori Graham ’11, Katherine Dunnigan ’16, Caroline Gossett ’22 and Josh Vaughn ’06, M ’09 attended the 2019 Army-Navy game in Philadelphia.

Liberia: Phil Reynolds '84 on an agricultural mission trip to Liberia through Mt. Horeb United Methodist Church in Lexington, S.C.

England: Ralph Ricks, feed mill manager at Morgan Poultry Center, and Ronda Ricks, admissions receptionist, visited the iconic Buckingham Palace in London.

Germany: Jyothi Rangineni ’09, Noah Chitty ’00, Ryan Marino ’07, Bill Griese ’06 and Elizabeth Chitty ’04 (not pictured) visited Berlin during the 30th-anniversary weekend of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Texas: Clemson Tridelta pledge sisters Jeana Kim Pistone ’95, Kerri Miele Brison ’95, Shannon Banks Berrian ’95, Amy Armbruster Joy ’95 and Danielle Cleary Sheeran ’95 visited Austin, Texas, for a girls getaway and a stop at the University of Texas’s Delta Delta Delta sorority house.

New Zealand: Jason Stone ’00 and Carolyn Emmons ’00 visited Slope Point, the southernmost point of New Zealand’s South Island.

Canada: Kyle ’14, Jacqueline Fontana ’13, Keith ’83, Gina Berger ’84, Blake ’12 and Luke ’21 Summer visited Lake Agnes in Banff National Park during a family vacation in August 2019.

California: David Williams ‘77 and his wife, Wendy, took a hot air balloon ride over Lake Tahoe.

Panama: Kyle Seelman ‘20, Paul Seelman M ‘87, Ana Seelman and Tyler Seelman visited the Panama Canal over the 2019 winter holidays.

Hungary: John Winfield ’79 and his wife, Laura, took a trip to Budapest.

Oregon: Lindsey Woods ’09, M ’11 traveled to Oregon to visit her friend and former architecture professor Annemarie Jacques ’76, M ’81, where they explored Fort Stevens State Park, including the Peter Iredale Shipwreck. “We had a ball!” Woods wrote.

Georgia: Alan Wind ‘77 and his wife, Patrice, hiked to Trahlyta Falls in Vogel State Park.

Tanzania: Lou Ann Brennan ’80 and Steve Hall ’83 summited Mount Kilimanjaro in August 2019.

Maine: Amanda Hrubresh ’13 and Collin ’16 Clemons hiked Beehive Trail in Acadia National Park. “[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,” Amanda wrote.

New Zealand: Teresa Houston Haas '76 and her husband, Dale, on top of Franz Joseph Glacier in January 2020.

Chile: Piyusha Khanna ’16 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,” 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!"

Italy: Al Johnson ’87 and his wife, Karla, visited the historic Colosseum in Rome.

New York: Henry McGill III ’09 and Amanda Trujillo McGill ’08 visited the World Trade Center Transportation Hub Oculus in New York City.

California: Laura Kline ’08, M ’10 and Jason Fulmer ’09, 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.

France: Eva Nance ’89 visited the Louvre in Paris while traveling on sabbatical.

Africa Carole Wilson ’71, M ’73 and Ron ’72 Oakley traveled to the sand dunes of Senegal.

Ecuador: Lindsay '03 and Kevin '03 Thalinger took their kids, Addyson and Jackson (pictured), on a trip to the Galápagos 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!"

Ireland: Haley Vivona ’19 and Mary Web Adams ’19, both health science majors, took a trip to Ireland, visiting the famous Cliffs of Moher, to celebrate their graduation from Clemson.

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