"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."--Bahá'u'lláh
THE WEB PAGE OF THE BARAL FAMILY
Tucson, Arizona
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Places we have visited
Paris views
We have visited Paris twice during the past decade. For a photographic record, follow the links "Paris 2006" and "Paris 2011" in the index.
GuangdongProvince in Southern China where Jocelyn lived for a year and a half. Susan visited her in 1998; follow the Index to the bottom of the "Family Pictures" page.
Palermo, SicilyWhere Susan's brother, Gerry Bagley --after many years of work with the overseas division of the University of Maryland, a career which took him throughout Europe, to the Ivory Coast in Africa, and finally to Korea and Japan-- enjoyed a very active retirement through involvement in Bahá'í activities for several years. He lived in Palermo, Sicily and made frequent trips to Albania and Kosovo. We visited Sicily in 2003. See pictures on the Sicily page. Gerry has recently returned to the United States and now resides in Tucson, Arizona.
MaltaOccupied by Phoenecians, Greeks, and Romans; site of the historic encounter between the Knights of St John and the Turkish Empire. We visited here in 2003. Follow the link above for an overview. Our pictures are found on the Malta page.
Nur UniversityA consulting assignment at Nur University in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, during a sabbatical in 1994, brought David and Susan back to South America after almost twenty years. On this trip they visited Argentina and Paraguay, as well as Bolivia.
Botswana, Southern AfricaThe first trip of David, Susan, and Jocelyn to Africa, the result of a summer consulting assignment at the National University of Botswana: the work required travel over most of the paved roads in the country, and ended with a memorable visit to the Okavango Delta area. If you are interested in this area, check out the following site: African safari.
All members of the family have visited the Shrines of the Bahá'í Faith in Haifa, Israel. To see a collection of photographs taken at the Bahá'í Shrines in March, 2001, go to: photographs taken in Israel. Susan and Jocelyn made a pilgrimage to the Bahá'í World Center in 2006. For a pictoral record, go to: pilgrimage.