Europe includes Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Great Britain, Italy and Scandinavia

Welcome to Gary Strait's Home Page

USA includes New England, New York State, Washington DC, Florida, Rocky Mountains and California

Creation of this page:

• I entered the HTML markup manually with a text editor. This page is still in the same basic, simple style I originally created in 1996, and was designed for the lower speed internet connections of that time, as well as for limited file space available to me on my ISP.
• All photos are my own; the earlier ones were scanned onto floppy disk by Seattle Filmworks from 35mm color slides, mostly Kodachrome. I also tried the Kodak Picture Disk format (not the CD version), but wasn't pleased with the results, Seattle Filmworks did a better, but still less than stellar, job; both services emphasize cost, not quality. It's been a while since I've tried either, and they probably have improved their process since they both now return pictures on CDs that shouldn't require the high compression (and loss of quality) necessary on the older floppy disk format. Newer pictures (Scandinavia and Italy) were scanned by an HP Photo Smart Scanner, which produces better results than either of the others (I plan eventually to re-scan some of the older pictures).
• I've removed all the mailto links to avoid spam email address collection (if you want to email me, you'll have to manually type the address).
• My latest addition is pictures of my 2000 trip to Italy, and a re-vamp of my Scandinavia pictures to the newer format I used for Italy (however for the moment no longer driven by a cgi script). These pages are getting out of date, I still haven't posted a description of my 1999 trip across the US and Canada to Alaska, my short 2001 visit to Germany, my 2002 return to Switzerland, or my 2003 vacation in Ireland. I hope to get these added to the site someday.