San Jose Musicians, Costa Rica – also made into Christmas card
Mision Loreto, California Baja
La Paz, Mexico
Eglesia del Carmen, Panama City
Santa Lucia for Odyssey riding buddy, Carissa Chappellet
Away with the Fairies – South Africa
Dutch Reform Church Stellenbosch South Africa
Pantanassa Monastery, Mystras Greece
Sagrada Familia, Barcelona Spain – made into a Christmas card –
Evora, Portugal
Ignalio, Vannola – Assissi Italy
Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, Umbria, central Italy
Place de la Magdalena, Toledo, Spain
Mont St. Michel Abbey, Normandy
In April, while Gerry was travelling with the Odyssey group, Judith moved their household belongings from Vancouver to their new home in Lunenburg. In June, she flew to Portugal and met Gerry in Lisbon. While the Odyssey group went to ride in the US and Canada, they rented a van and drove together from Portugal to Denmark and then to Paris. Judith flew home to Nova Scotia and Gerry re-joined the Odyssey group when they returned to Paris from Canada.
Place des Heros, Arras France
G did this one at Judith’s request, under duress. Too cliche perhaps
Arras, France
When Gerry worked in England in ’60s, he did the drawings for this building in the Barbican. It is now in the national registry, he said it made him feel old to learn that
Ryde Youth Centre, Isle of Wight
Lake Huron Free House, Ryde – For Fred Sheppard
Several Odyssey riders attended a concert of the Paris Opera Boys Choir image used in a Christmas card
Borgund Stave Church is a former parish church of the Church of Norway in Laerdal Parish, Vestland County, Norway.
Norsk Folkemuseum
Eidsberg Church, parish church in Viken county, Norway
Gamla stan (the town between the bridges) Stockholm Sweden made into Christmas card
National Museum of Finland, Helsinki
Schloss Matzen, historic castle, Tyrol Austria
From Europe to Australia in time for the Olympics held in Sydney that year
Kiyomizu Temple, Buddhist temple in eastern Kyoto Japan
Lijiang, China
Guangxi produces 85% of star anise grown in the world – the major ingredient in the antiviral oseltamivir. Important crops include rice, maize, sweet potatoes – cash crops are sugar cane, peanuts, tobacco and kenaf.
Gerry’s art from Odyssey stopped here though the group continued to Hanoi, Vietnam into Saigon, then flew to Thailand, rode south to Malaysia and finally to Singapore when the tour ended for the majority of riders. Gerry returned home to Nova Scotia on November 28, 2000.
