Rob's tour group, formerly his high school French class, walked across the top of this ancient structure.
Straddling the beautiful Loire River, the grounds include a hedge maze and the Chateau included a modern art exhibit.
This castle is located on a peninsula during low tide that becomes an island at high tide on the North Coast of Normandy.
These statues are on the roof of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
Erika, Vijay and Rob were invited to a fund raiser for the Saxaphone Club after helping the DNC do telephone fundraising.
After all the hard work that Vijay and Erika did for Clinton's re-election, the gang got to pose on stage before the election night festivities began.
Erika and Rob spent a week on Oahu and a week on Kuwaii over Christmas. The floating observation deck shown here looks down over the top of the smokestack of the U.S.S. Arizona, the only part above water. You can see oil and air bubbles rising from its wreckage still.
One of many events undertaken by Georgetown Peace Action, a club founded by Rob to promote political justice causes.
Erika's parents took Erika and Rob on a ski vacation in Oregon for a week.
In protest of Indonesia's occupation and brutalization of East Timor, Georgetown Peace Action protested at least 6 times before Indonesia granted East Timor independence.
During a 2-week summer program to study the economic integration of Europe, Rob and colleagues pose at the NATO headquarters in Brussels.
Erika and her mother examine a gigantic fallen Redwood in Northern California.
Erika and Rob took a 5-week program in Hong Kong to study International Marketing through Georgetown.
This huge statue is on the same island as the new airport.
After our Hong Kong program, Erika and Rob spent a week with the family of a foreign exchange student who formerly lived with Erika's family.
Miyajima is a day trip from where we stayed in Hiroshima.
This is the former exhibition center that was destroyed during the Bomb. This building was the only building still standing, and was left in the destroyed state as a monument.
As a traditional virility custom, the guys partook in a snake blood and snake bile cocktail before we dined on snake meat in a local restaurant.
As part of our Hong Kong study abroad, Rob and Erika spent one week on Mainland China. This 8 story pagoda includes a several ton iron ball on the top floor that nobody has figured out how it got up there several hundred years ago.
Vijay, Janelle, Erika, Rob and Melissa partied like it was 1999 in New York City.
Cleo is touching noses with a stone statue of a bulldog outside our former condo.
This beach at Simon Town, South Africa is about an hour from the Cape of Good Hope at the Southern tip of Africa. This picture is really worth enlarging!
After a day of winery visits near Cape Town, this vista blew us away. Photo credit goes to Erika on this one.
This picture is Rob riding in a micro-light behind the pilot, looking down over the falls.
Erika, Vijay, Rob sitting a few feet from the 300 ft drop of the falls, twice as tall and three times as wide as Niagara. We hired local guides to walk across the top of the falls.
During a safari at Krueger National Park in Botswana, these lions walked across the path of our truck to find shade from the mid-day sun.
This elephant played in the water near our river cruise on the Zambezi river. The next day, Rob, Erika and Vijay went white water rafting further downstream.
Kim, Erika and Rob on Bourbon Street, sipping hurricanes.
Thanks to Vijay's local connections, Erika, Rob and he got into a balcony party over Bourbon street to play god by tossing the beads.
At Erika and Rob's wedding, groomsmen Vijay and Brett and Bridesmaids Allison and Kim.
Thanks to a wonderful travel agent, Rob & Erika's hotel room window is visible in the top left corner of this picture.
This picture turned out with amazing colors during the sunset. This famous bridge holds numerous jewelry stores in the center of Florence.
This huge, ancient tomb/chapel has natural light through a hole in the roof, as seen on this shadowy interior.
This was one of our picturesque stops along our day cruise among the Greek Isles.
Erika in front of a row of gondolas near St. Mark's Square.
Temple ruins on the Greek Isle of Aegina--the island with amazing pistachio ice cream!
The Erechtheion on top of the Acropolis. The Parthenon is directly behind Rob while taking this shot.
The remains of the temple of Apollo at the archeological site at Delphi.
Erika in front of the Coliseum in Rome.
Erika and Rob climbed to the top of the tower, the first time it has been open to the public since it's lean was prevented from getting any worse.
St. Mark's Square, famous for pigeons, gold mosaic ceilings and glass artwork.
Erika accompanied Rob on a business trip to PR. There is a historic fort in the background and the cemetery in the foreground with Rob's colleague, Javier, to the left.
Rob, Erika and Erika's family spent 2 weeks in Cancun and Cozumel during Christmas time. In addition to great relaxation at the pool and beach, we found time to explore the Mayan archeological sites of Chitzen Itsa and Tulum. Those Mayans sure like their human sacrifices!
Rob and Erika's brother, Alec, got SCUBA certified in Cozumel. It took three full days of classes, videos and skill practices in 20-ft water, followed by a 40-ft boat dive off of Chan Kaanab National Park, part of the 2nd largest reef in the world.
This seahorse statue famously lines the coastline in downtown Puerto Vallarta.
Erika and Rob zip-lining among the trees of the canopy of the Sierra Madres.
Forty feet below the surface of Puerto Vallarta, Rob scuba diving with a Moray eel.
After winning the Kentucky Derby by more than any horse since 1946, the heavy favorite to win the Preakness shocked the horse racing world by suffering a career-ending series of leg fractures only a few feet in front of us as I took this shot.
These magical islands cannot be done justice in a short blurb.
During our exploration of Machu Picchu, we decided to climb nearby Huayna Picchu for an hour of agony as we ascended as quickly as our lungs could process the thin air. Then, with the most amazing view in front of us, a beautiful mountain caracaras (type of falcon) in juvenile plumage landed a few feet away and raised one of its talons as if to mock our difficulty climbing.
With Erika's parents, we chartered a helicopter to fly over the crater, lava flows and where the lava meets the sea of this erupting volcano on Hawaii's Big Island.
We made the treacherous hike over cooled lava formations by flashlight to get a view of glowing lava moving over the hillside and pouring into the Pacific.
This picturesque waterfall is north of Hilo on the East side of the Big Island.