Travel Scrapbooks and Diaries

WAA's travel scrapbooks and diaries will give you a flavor for the memories we've shared with UW alumni around the world. Click on the Photos section (at right) and take a virtual voyage to some of the world's most fascinating destinations.

Photos by our own Mark Blakeslee during his August 2008 trip.

Travelers boarded the National Geographic Sea Lion for a one of a kind whale watching trip in January 2008. Trip diary by Jessika Kasten.

In October, 2007 travelers journeyed to Bhutan. Trip diary by Heidi Wilde.

In October 2006, more than thirty Badgers joined with half a dozen Notre Dame fans to experience life in the shadow of the volcano — under Sicily’s famed Mt. Etna. For more than a week, they crisscrossed that island crossroads of the Mediterranean world.

Richard Jacobs and his wife Joanne have traveled extensively with WAA. You can view their journey to Greece in 2005 here. They have also traveled to Tuscany and Alaska with WAA and in 2006 will be heading to Costa Rica with their entire family. Thanks Dick and Joanne for providing our alumni with these memories. (13.2MB, .mov)

In February 2005, many hearty alumni and friends ventured to frozen Antarctica. Trip diary by Alicia Jackson.

The fourteen original travelers on the Polar Bear Watch tour to Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, in 2002 found they shared a strong bond — a love for animals. At the end of the six-day trip, they decided it was too good to end. This year, they traveled to Yellowstone for the Wolves and Wildlife of Yellowstone Trip.

In April, 2004, UW Space Place Director Jim Lattis led a group of alumni and friends on our second tour to Arizona as part of our Astronomical Crossroads Tour Series.