Richardson's Travel
Abroad
Since childhood, I have wanted to travel to Kranjovia and Brungaria, having
been inspired by Edward Stratemeyer, but it has been the profession of librarianship
which has afforded me quite a few unexpected opportunities to travel in the first,
second, and third worlds; and I do believe that "you have to see the
world to understand it:"
- Summer 1969 England, Belgium, Germany, France
- Year 1975 Europe Including Yugoslavia, Greece, and
Egypt
- Fall 1984 England Research for Biography of Pierce
Butler
- Fall 1985 Germany Research for Biography of Pierce
Butler
- Fall 1986 Wales Education for Librarianship (Lancour
Scholar)
- Fall 1988 Switzerland, France, and Italy
- August 1989 France Paper Presentation at IFLA
Conference
- Summer 1990 Australia Visiting Fellow, Charles Sturt
University
- June 1991 Central Am. Belize and Guatemala
- July 1993 S.E. Asia Singapore
- September
1993 France (Dordogne, Bordeaux) and Switzerland
- September 1994 Turkey (Istanbul, Cappadocia, Antalya,
Ephesus, Troy)
- April 1996 Russia (St. Petersburg and Moscow)
- September 1996 France (Paris, Brittany and Normandy)
- August and September 1997 Russia (St. Petersburg and
Moscow)
- August and September 1998 Tuscany, the Bernese Oberland
and Russia (St. Petersburg and Moscow)
- October 1999, Moscow, Russia
- November 2000, Vladivostok and Khabarovsk (Courtesy of
the U.S. Department of State)
- August 2001, Switzerland
- October 2001, Zambia and Uganda (Keynote Address to
Uganda Library Association meeting)
- March-April 2003, Eritrea (Courtesy of U.S. Department
of State)
- August-September 2003, Switzerland and France
- October 2003, Sakhalin Island and Vladivostok (Courtesy
of U.S. Department of State)
- August-September 2004, Ireland
- April 2005, Vladivostok State University of Economics
(Fulbright Scholar, Senior Specialist)
- August 2005, Canadian Rockies
- September 2006, Moscow, Russia; Berlin, Germany; and
Czech Republic
- March 2008, Costa Rica and Nicaragua
- June 2008, Crimea, Ukraine (2008 ILIAC Library
Conference)
- August and September 2008, Czech Republic, Slovenia,
and Hungary
- Spring 2009, Guatemala
- Summer 2009, Turkmenistan
- Spring 2010, Guatemala and Honduras
- September 2010, Tanzania (Courtesy of U.S. Department
of State)
- August-September 2011, Peru (OAT)
- September 2011, Ashgabat (Courtesy of Government of
Turkmenistan) for 7th Annual Book Fare
- June 2012, Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto, and Hiroshima)
- September-October 2012, Senior Fulbright Scholar to
Ashgabat (working with National Library of Turkmenistan and the Institute
of Culture)
- November-December 2012, Visiting Professor at Charles
Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia
- September 2013, 8th Annual Book Fare in
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
- November 2013, South Africa
- May 2014, Institute of Historical
Manuscripts, Ashgabat,
Turkmenistan and Turkey
- October-December 2014, South East Asia (Thailand,
Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam)
- September-November 2015 Western Europe (Germany, Spain,
Andorra, and Italy) and Eastern Europe (Croatia, Montenegro, and Bosnia
and Herzegovina)
- Fall 2016, Switzerland, Spain, and France
- Fall 2018, Netherlands, Portugal, and France
- Fall 2019, Scotland, Ireland, and Switzerland
- January-February 2020, Australia and New Zealand
Extensive travel in western Canada (Alberta and
British Columbia) and Mexican states: Baja California Norte, Mexico City D.F.,
Sonora, Chihuahua, Quintana Roo, and Yucatan.
Having experienced a fair amount of international travel, I think it is
reasonable to speak about the periodization of one’s overseas experiences
in stages: 1) surrealism (where am I?), 2) anger (why don’t things work
the way they are supposed to?), 3) acceptance of this alternate reality, and
the final stage: 4) nostalgia.
These periods can be characterized as the four stages of culture shock.
Updated: 28 September 2021.