Slogging through the process of scanning old snapshots stimulates the brain cells by reminding you of those past lived experiences! It turns a tedious task into a rather fun ride!

It appears that 1995 was one of Meda’s sabbatical years, although it looks like she took the spring semester off at full pay rather than the full year at half pay. That seems likely because the photo evidence is that we took at least two trips within a few months of each other, Boston in March and Melbourne, Australia, in July.

Seeing the horses reminded me that we stayed at the conference hotel, a Marriott in Copley Square. The horses are installed outside the hotel. From there, we walked around a lot of Boston.

I remember that there was a lane in back of the hotel, and we discovered two restaurants back there that took us through the week. One was a Thai restaurant that we must have gone to three of the nights we were there. And there was also a pizza place that drew us in, or where we would pick up a pizza to take back to our room.

My favorite photo from our couple of weeks in Melbourne that same year was taken on a tour of the wine country north of Melbourne with a the husband of Meda’s colleague at the University of Melbourne.