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In 1984 I traveled around the world in about three months with a group of college students.  A leaky pipe recently required me to open the one cardboard box of memorabilia to revue and care for the contents.  I found nearly 500 35mm slides, 12 audio cassette tapes and 4 Beta-Max tapes.

To preserve the media, digitizing seemed like a natural next step.  I handed over a large box to Brian with no instructions and in a week he brought back this slide show that includes a few hundred of the best slides put to very appropriate music.

I expect that the videos will mean a lot to those I traveled with and it is for them that I am sharing these slide shows.

People

People, Buildings and Scenes

The chronological trip included the following major cities; Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Xian, Beijing, Moscow, Zurich and Vienna.  The most time was spent in Beijing.

The slides are not set in chronological order so you will see European scenes mixed in with the more prevalent Chinese ones. It was quite an experience travelling across half the globe by train, including the Trans-Siberian railroad.  I have great memories of the trip and many of the people we traveled with.  I hope that many of my fellow travelers will see these video slide shows and smile.  Xie Xie.

Please feel free to leave a comment below or through the Contact form.  It will be fun to reconnect.

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