John F. Mansfield, Personal Home Page

The opinions expressed herein are my own!

Home Address

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4304 Spring Lake Boulevard (front view, back view and side view)
Ann Arbor
Michigan 48108-9657
Phone: (313)994-3096

Map of our house from Yahoo.com or Switchboard.com (Yahoo is more accurate).

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Interests & Hobbies

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• Travel
  • Australia - Sydney and The Blue Mountains
  • Asia
    • Thailand - Hat Yai, Songkla, Phuket (Great Snorkelling), Bangkok and Ayutthaya
    • Japan - Tokyo (Akasima, Tachikawa & Kamakura)
    • China - Kunming, Yunnan Province (Western Hills, Stone Forest) and Beijing (Forbidden City , Great Wall)
    • South Korea - Seoul, Jebudo Island, Icheon
    • Vietnam - Hanoi (Ho Chi Minh's Tomb, Chua Mot Cot (The One Pillar Pagoda), Ho Chi Minh's House, Van Mieu (Temple of Literature), Ho Hoan Kiem (The Lake of the Returned Sowrd), Mua Roi Nuoc (Vietnamese Water Puppets)), Ho Chi Minh City (Ben Thanh Market, Dinh Doc Lap, (Independence Palace), Cu Chi Tunnels, Tay Ninh (Cao Dai Temple))
  • North America
    • USA (haven't "done" North Dakota, Nebraska, Idaho, Iowa, Oklahoma, & Kansas)
    • Canada - Windsor, Hamilton, Niagra Falls
    • Mexico - Acapulco (you can keep it!), Cozumel (nice!), Playa Del Carmen (nice!), Tulum (excellent!), Cancun (OK) & Chichen Itza (excellent!)
  • Europe
    • England
    • Scotland
    • Wales
    • France
    • Germany
    • Switzerland
    • Sweden
    • The Netherlands
    • Austria.
  • South Pacific
    • The Cook Islands - Rarotonga & Aitutaki
  • South America
    • Chile - Santiago, Valparaiso & Vina del Mar
    • Argentina - Buenos Aires
    • Brazil - Igwasu Falls & Rio de Janeiro (plus numerous airport stops at Sao Paulo courtesy Varig - nice airline!)
    • Paraguay
    • Venezuala - Caracas
    • Columbia - Cartgena
  • Central America
    • Honduras - Puerto Cortez
    • Belize - The Cays off Belize City (Goff's Cay) - Great Snorkelling
    • Costa Rica - Puerto Limon and nearby rainforest
  • Caribbean
    • St. Thomas - Great Snorkelling
    • St. Martin/Sint Maarten
    • Barbados - Great Snorkelling
    • St. Lucia
    • Dominica - Great Snorkelling
    • Dominican Republic
    • Puerto Rico
    • Jamaica
    • Aruba - Great Snorkelling
    • Curacao
    • Grand Cayman - Great Snorkelling with Stingrays!
    • Antigua
    • Bahamas
    • Bermuda (I know, it's in the Atlantic!) - Great Helmet Diving!
    • Tortola
    • St. Kitts (everyone tried to rip us off!)
    • Grenada
    • Martinique
    • Guadeloupe
• International Cuisine (East of Afghanistan and West of Hawaii in particular)
  Favourite (OK, so I still spell British occasionally, what can I say?) Foods
  • Sushi & Sashimi
  • Burmese Pork Curry
  • Blue Mountain Coffee
  • Beans-on-Toast :-)
  • Marmite (Actually a comparison of Marmite, Vegemite and Promite, you can still check out the old Marmite pages)
• Snorkelling
• Contemporary Music (about 1957 onwards)
  Some examples
  • The Au Pairs - Playing with a Different Sex
  • The Beatles - White Album
  • The Blow Monkeys - Animal Magic, esp. Aeroplane, City Lovesongs
  • The Blue Nile - A Walk Across The Rooftops
  • The Buzzcocks - Spiral Scratch
  • The Christians
  • The Fine Young Cannibals
  • Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
  • The Comsat Angels - Waiting for a Miracle
  • The Cure - 17 Seconds & Boys Don't Cry
  • The Dave Clark Five
  • The Doors - Texas Radio
  • Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles, esp. All That Jazz
  • Gang of Four - Entertainment!
  • Greig, Edvard - Peer Gynt Suite
  • Jethro Tull - Aqualung
  • Magazine - Real Life
  • The Only Ones - The Beast, City of Fun
  • Pink Floyd (Atom Heart Mother & Meddle) anything pre-DSOTM
  • Prefab Sprout- Two Wheels Good
  • The Psychedlic Furs - Mirror Moves
  • Roxy Music - Street Life
  • The Screaming Blue Messiahs - Gun Shy & Bikini Red,
    especially I Wanna Be a Flintstone
  • The Silencers - Letter to St. Paul
  • David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive
  • George Winston - Winter
  • The Woodentops - Giant & Wooden Foot Cops on The Highway
  • Neil Young - On the Beach & Rust Never Sleeps
  • Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
  • Artic Monkeys - Whatever people say I am , that's what I'm not
• Malt Whisky - Favourite: Highland Park.
• Contemporary Literature (i.e. this century)
  e.g.
  • John Steinbeck - Anything from Cannery Row
  • George Orwell - Keep the Aspidistra Flying
  • David Brin - The Postman
  • Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
  • Ursula K. LeGuin - The Dispossessed & The Left Hand of Darkness
  • Anthony Burgess - The Malayan Trilogy
  • Radcliffe Hall - Well of Loneliness
  • Frank Herbert - The Whipping Star & The Dosadi Experiment
  • Douglas Adams - HHGTTG
  • Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions
  • Anthony Bourdain - Kitchen Confidential and A Cook's Tour
  • Alexander McCall Smith - Any of the Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency series
  • Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions
  • John Grisham - The Last Juror and the Broker
  • Orson Scott Card - Magic Street & Shadow of the Giant
  • Richard Russo - Nobody's Fool and Empire Falls
  • Robert Ludlum - The Ambler Warning/FONT>
  • Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife
• Art (a wide variety)

  e.g.

  • Impressionists - Monet, Seurat, Van Gogh, Degas, etc.
  • Maurits Cornelius Escher
  • Zuni Fetishes
  • South American Indian Art (Brazilian and Chilean).
  • Tlingit or its derivative (i.e. Yuki Adams)
    
• Apple Macintosh Computers
• Photography
  

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