Here’s an overview of our past travels since Summer 2007:

2008-03-02 - 2008-03-08

• Linda, Krystyana, and Bas visit Jake while he’s working in San Diego

2008-02-03 - 2008-04-01

• Jake in San Diego (via Boston on the way up, and via Washington, D.C. on way back)

2008-01-20 - 2008-01-27

• Linda and Krystyana go to New Hampshire for business and to visit Krystyana’s grandparents

2008-01-11 - 2008-01-16

• Jake, Krystyana, and Bas go to Washington, D.C. to visit museums and the National Archives, as well as take care of some business. Return via Miami.

2007-12-16 - 2007-12-19

• Jake visits his orthodontist in Boston

2007-10-20 - 2007-11-13

• Grand Pacific Voyage for all four Richters:
• October 20, 2007 - Bonaire to Los Angeles
• October 22, 2007 - Los Angeles to Tahiti
• October 24, 2007 - Start of an 11 day cruise to Hawaii
• November 4, 2007 - Arrive in Honolulu, fly to Maui
• November 6, 2007 - Maui to Hawaii (the Big Island)
• November 11, 2007 - Hawaii to Oahu
• November 13, 2007 - Oahu to Los Angeles
• November 15, 2007 - Los Angeles to Fiji (arrive Nov. 17)
• December 4, 2007 - Fiji to Los Angeles, then Santa Barbara
• December 10, 2007 - Los Angeles to Miami
• December 13, 2007 - Miami to Bonaire (home)

2007-10-06 - 2007-10-10

• Jake in New York City on business

2007-09-21 - 2007-09-25

• Jake and Krystyana go to Texas to pack up offices there and move them to New Hampshire. Spend a day exploring JFK history and museum in Dallas.

2007-08-27 - 2007-09-12

• The Traveling Richters start off with a week in Monterey, California, meet up with Dutch friends Martin & Angela (see photos here), attend Renaissance Weekend, and then go to Las Vegas to attend Photoshop World, returning with an overnight in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2007-06-22 - 2007-08-02

• The Traveling Richters started off with a wedding in San Francisco, then go to Tucson, Arizona to meet with their new home schooling coach/teacher and visit a couple of zoos/parks. From there it was travel to Calgary, Alberta (Canada) and thence on to Banff for Renaissance Weekend. After that, we flew to San Diego to visit with family, the San Diego Zoo, and sleep over in the Wild Animal Park. Then we spent nearly a week in Los Angeles/Santa Monica while Jake covered the E3 video game conference for TechWatch, and from there it was New Hampshire for time with Linda’s family and a week at a camp on a pond.

Earlier trips in 2007 included a couple of visits to New Hampshire while Linda was getting knee replacement surgery there, and earlier a week in Santa Fe New Mexico to attend Renaissance Weekend as well as studying the history of American Indians, including the Pueblo Indians, and visiting the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum followed by a stay in San Juan to see historical sites.

In 2006 Jake did a solo trip at the end of the year to Tokyo and Taiwan on business (photos and story here). Other trips included a family trip to Washington, D.C. for ten solid days of visiting museums and historical sites, over a week in the Ixtapa area of Mexico where in addition to learning that Club Med was no longer “us” we got to see how local agriculture was cultivated, bread was made in wood burning ovens, and how various people lived in rural areas in Mexico.

In 2006 we also visited Santa Barbara for a Renaissance Weekend, after which we went to Lake Tahoe where the kids learned to ski and snowboard, ending with a visit to Jake’s offices in Marshall, Texas. And let’s not forget a shopping trip to Miami and Ft. Lauderdale, the annual visit to New Hampshire and Linda’s family there, two and a half weeks in Great Britain and Scotland, a trip for Jake and Krystyana to visit Jake’s parents in Prague and family in Brno in the Czech Republic, and Jake and Linda’s getaway to Quebec City for almost a week.

And for 2006, that’s on top of a handful of business trips to New York and other destinations Jake had to take.

And we won’t even go into 2005…