Places John Vacationed II

Africa:
John spent several days in the forest of Mount Kenya in Africa during a seventy-day survival course in 1979




The Aland Archipelago:

The Aland Archipelago is a chain of islands in the southern stretch of the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea between Finland and Sweden. John's trip to Ahvenanmaa (the main island) in the summer of 1992 afforded him the opportunity to become a professional travel writer. John and three friends kayaked throughout this island chain with John taking the role of navigator and cook. John's menus consisted mostly of spaghetti.

The vistas of this region of the world are breathtaking beyond imagination, and also quite dangerous for the inattentive.





















Antigua:
Jackie took John and Caroline to the Caribbean Island Antigua in 1965 when John was five. They stayed with millionaire Paul Mellon and his family.



















Aspen, Colorado:
John had visited Aspen several times for ski trips including one with his mother and sister following Jackie's appearance at a United Nations Christmas concert in the late sixties. John's uncle Bobby taught him how to ski.













The Berkshires, Massachusetts:
When he was fifteen, John accompanied his uncle Ted and aunt Joan to the Berkshire Mountains for a skiing vacation.





















The Caroline Islands:
The island lie north of New Guinea in the Pacific, to the east of the Philippines. John visited in 1975 with cousin Tim Shriver. They went diving to explore sunken Japanese warships.










Cordoba, Argentina:
In the late Sixties John spent some time here on the cattle ranch of Miguel Carcano, whose daughters were friends of John's uncles. While in Cordoba, John placed a stone on a monument that had been laid there by h is father many years earlier.



















France:
John has visited France often, including trips with his mother in 1975, and a visit in 1996


















Great Britain:
Visited in 1965 John toured the Tower of London and asked countless questions about how executions and beheadings were carried out.

















Greece:
John visited and lived on Skorpios, visited Athens and other Greek isles.



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