Photo Gallery

These are just a few of the photos from our adventures. CLICK on the photo to see the whole image. Check back often for new photos!

FCD 2258 Convention, Telford 2020

Green Screen Shenanigans!

with Mira & Jason

The Saturday Morning Panel

On facing your fears, Babylon & Quest Retreats

Skype Panel with Peter Jurasik

YES! This is a cake!

Cake by Fairy Dust Cake Shop! This cake £400 for Claudia’s C3 Foundation!

Skype Panel with Peter Jurasik

Showing off some amazing artwork with David

A lovely gift from all the attendees!

Presenting the best Cosplay award with Mira

Congratulations Holly!

Group Panel

Mira & Maggie in discussion

Skype Panel with Peter Jurasik

Sunday Panel

Morning Meditation exercise

Applause

Wow! Simon Dennis got our autographs tattooed on our arms!

The Unexpected Journey to Middle-Earth 2019

Welcome dinner with the jet lagged Fellowship!

Lanterns at Redwoods Treewalk

The Fellowship on a Quest at Redwoods Treewalk

with Jed Brophy

Ray became our chief at the Maori dinner!

Ray before his zip in the NZ canopy!

Kirk with the TSS Earnslaw in Queenstown NZ

The Adventures of Claudia And Pat in France

Mont St Michel

We were so lucky in how clear the day became.

Mt St Michel

Claudia braves more stairs!

Monks Garden

Mt St Michel

View of the cloisters

SO peaceful here!

View from the Cloister

out to the sea flats

Ship hanging from the ceiling

in the Abby Church

Abby Church

Gull in the wind

Ramparts of Mt St Michel

Cannon

Stamped 1300!

CC on the gun

I made Claudia adjust her aim.

From our BnB

Misty view…Mt St Michel is hiding!

monks garden

Mt St Michel

The Mont

Arial View!

Mt St Michel

The walk up

Wheel of hell

This wheel would have 6 slaves in it, to power lifting things hundreds of feet up to the Mont. Now whenever we complain, we just say ‘wheel!’ and get our priorities straight.

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Outside the gorgeous Abby

The Spire

Looking towards the heavens

shadow of the mont

Out of a window looking at the shadow on the sand

Mt St Michel

We have to climb up there?

Mt St Michel

View from the ramparts

The Mont

On the way home

St Malo

Outside the city walls

St Malo

St Malo had a lot of pirate activity evidently. See- here’s a pirate candy shop!

Cathedral St Malo

The stained glass rose window is stunning but I was captivated by the light playing on the walls.

Cathedral Saint-Vincent of Saint-Malo

The alter is amazing

Cathedral Saint-Vincent of Saint-Malo

Lovely

Cathedral Saint-Vincent of Saint-Malo

Cloche

On the ramparts

Pat, you want me to walk up more STAIRS???

View in St. Malo

Just a pretty street

Beautiful light

St. Malo twilight

The King’s ship

St. Malo- Etoile Du Roi

Etoile Du Roi

Mt St Michel

The mont in the mists

Dinan, France

Traveling with me will entail certain…adventures.

Dinan, France

Traveling with the gorgeous Claudia Christian is…a different experience.

Dinan, FRance

Really gorgeous village. Famous for 14th century timbered buildings. Postcard beauty in every direction.

Dinan, FRance

Speaking of beauty! Claudia in front of her favorite blue.

Dinan, France

We met another well traveled fellow walking his dogs. Outside the ramparts of the city.

Dinan, France

I loved the herbs growing in the walls and labeled on slate!

Dinan, France

On the ramparts

Dinan, France

View from the Ramparts

St Sauveur Basilica, Dinan, France

We ducked in here when it started to pour. So beautiful. Lots of ancient tombs in there!

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Dinan

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Dinan

St Gilles de Vie

La Roche Sur Yon

Île de Ré

The GPS was sending us into the ocean!

Île de Ré

Rouffignac-Saint-Cernin-de-Reilhac.

Brantôme, Dordogne.

Lascaux

Vallee Vezere

Les Jardins de Marqueyssac.

Sarlat-la-Canéda.

Château de Castelnaud-la-Chapelle.

Beynac-et-Cazenac.

Château de Beynac.

Les Jardins du Manoir d’Eyrignac.

Périgueux, France.

Saint-Jean-de-Côle.

Belvès-De-Castillon, Aquitaine, France.

Aquitaine

La Closerie de la Beyne.

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Eymet

Eymet.

Naussannes

Naussannes.

Château de Duras.

Bergerac

The Christmas Angel

Place du Capitole.

The Grinch

Place du Capitole.

Toulouse

Capitole de Toulouse.

Halo

Capitole de Toulouse.

Potions Class London 2018

This was an epic time with incredible people.

The people make this why I set up these mini adventures!

Our Ticket Winner, Glen!

pouring the time turner potion.

A Focused Class

Snapes instructions can be confusing…..

Focus

Everyone a-brewing

Bubble bubble toil and trouble

reading the instructions carefully

don’t want to blow anything up…or do we?

My students are such wonderful folks

Our very own Ravenclaw Bellatrix

Trouble.

Playing with time and potions

Don’t mess with these two!

Potions Class of 2018

The A-Student of the class and her professors

Photo Moment at the end of the class

Picture time!

Having so much fun

Nerdy Witches!

New Zealand 2018

Who greets you at the airport?

The guests from Armageddon go to Hobbiton

At the last cocktail party for the con In Auckland

With the beautiful Amanda!

I meet such great people!

I made so many friends!

Seeing double…too much rum!

My dear friend Warren Dion Smith, hair and makeup artist extraordinaire, for the LotR and Hobbit films.

Outside the party at Bag End

Not invited!

Hobbit doors of the Shire

Enjoying the Shire

Bag End

Blue Hobbit door.

My friends Todd and Dawn

The Shire

Another Hobbit residence

One of my FAVORITE places, Hotel Tongariro

Let’s recreate this moment!

Imitating Ian McKellen as Gandalf

at Hairy Feet

Here’s the photo I’m imitating

Bucket list moments!

I’m at Edoras!

Now I’m at Lothlorien!

Hawaii 2018

Van Selfie!

What’s with Pat’s hair?

Peaceful last evening

Pat & Heather

Honu

Farewell Banquet

Exhausted!

Exhausted

Enjoying the sunset with the turtles

Everyplace is so photogenic!

My new friends

King Kamehameha’s game table

A game at the beach

Kona Joe’s coffee plantation

Stop and smell the…. coffee! Every adventure needs a cup of joe….Even better if it’s at Kona Joe’s coffee plantation

Going out for a swim

Titanic Moment….

Hawaii’s beautiful wildlife

Our version of a swearjar

Evening Manta Swim

Sunset at the observatory

Mauna Kea

Sunset at the observatory

Cold at the TOP

group shot

Warm at the bottom!

Snorkelling

Gorgeous water

Snorkelling

Big Fishy!

Snorkelling

Watching the Sunset

Observatory

Gorgeous

Sunset at the Observatory

Akaka Falls

Mauna Lani Beach Club

snorkelling

Akaka Falls

On a hike in a pristine forest

At our home base

Pat & Andrew

Fun on the zipline

Double Zip

Brand new land

Lila and Bobby

Bobby gettin crazy

We made it!

Adventures abound

Changing the tires

lol

I make you all work

Car trouble…

Love these birds…they are loud though!

Just another beautiful spot on the road

Waipio Valley

Banyan Tree

Falls

the site of Brand New Lava Flow!

I’d never put you in danger…uh…wait…

Very few folks had even seen this flow yet.

New beach!

Gecko!

hiking into the woods

Doesn’t this look magical?!

Talk about adventure!

Great smile!

View from the helicopter

Paparazzi?

Our Hilo home

The digs

Our guide Grant takes to the sea!

Underwater shot!

Hawaii 2017

Mauna Lani view

The view from my balcony one evening. The ocean was pink!

Rainbow Falls

We gathered at the Falls in Hilo near our house!

Our Zipline Group!

The Quest with Rod Roddenberry, and Nicolas Brendon from Buffy.

Quester Susan!

I love this smile.

flirty zip

Laura shoots us a saucy look!

JT zip

My brother giving us a brave wave!

LK zip

All Smiles!

jon zip

Jonathan became famous for his laugh.

tony zip

Tony…everybody’s friend!

rusty zip

And Rusty …everybody’s clown!

zip swim

A refreshing swim in a private waterfall after the zipline and before our BBG lunch!

rusty volcano

In Volcano National Park.

There!

Wha’s That?

death

Uh oh. The Quest ended very badly.

cauldera walk

We hiked into the cauldera of an active volcano!

sulfur crack

What can I say, he likes to sniff sulfur cracks.

Sunset Cruise

We went on a Sunset Cruise for my birthday!

Dario!

My good friend Dario! He is an original Quester!

Rainbow!

We all were taking pictures of the rainbow.

Special guest Amber Benson

Amber took a turn at the helm with Captain Spike! Yes that’s his name!

Buds

I finally got a decent photo with Rusty!

This time, to the LAVA!

Yes, we took an amazing boat ride out to where the lava was flowing into the sea!

Pele

The Goddess Pele was in a very fiery mood and showed herself in splendor!

forest walk

We cooled off in the Rain forest.

Coastal woodlands

Along the Red Road

Volcano in distance

From the Mauna Lani Beach Club- a view of Kohala.

Walk on the beach

A gorgeous beach walk outside of the hotel.

Sea Turtles

Along my walk I met 5 sea turtles having their rest.

mountain view

The dormant volcano Kohala in the distance.

My view

From my balcony!

huggy dinner

At out last dinner together, my Questers gave each other tributes!

dinner mates

It was one of my favorite moments of the entire trip. Everyone is just so wonderful.

market in Hilo

Cheriess and I hit the local market for breakfast!

Manta

Darcy throwing a shaka to let us know how she feels about being near these amazing animals!

Questers workshop

We had a writing workshop with Jane Espenson when she was visiting.

D & D lava boat

Amazed smiles from David and Darcy as we witnessed the goddess Pele doing her thing.

Grant

Our guide, Grant, throwing a shaka as we enter the ocean for our lava boat adventure.

Beach at ML Beach Club

Picture yourself here!

Manta

Hanging with the mantas!

ML Beach club

View from the ML Neach Club looking back to the active volcano,Mauna Loa.

Pat on a boat

This is my happy place, near the ocean!

Kevin on the Manta adventure!

Snorkeling in the deep blue of a night time ocean is not to be missed!

J & M lava boat

Yes, we really do get this close to flowing, molten lava!

New Zealand 2017

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Queenstown Harbor

This was just across the street from my hotel!

Frodo and the One Ring

Guess what this is made of? And it’s quite large!

Roadsigns at the top of the world!

I took the Skyline cablecar up to the tippy top! The view was breath taking. Queenstown.

Sledding at the top!

You can do the luge up at the top of the Queenstown cablecar! That photo took me a few tries. They go fast!

The VIEW!

I couldn’t get enough of this amazing view.

Riding In Middle Earth

Look at those mountains!

My steady mount Bub

How would you like to do this?

Gorge on this!

Queenstown

In the woods for a location scout

Lothlorien

Ok I love the water but this boat ride was epic!

Seriously gorgeous

On the way to the dock

A working sheep ranch. Including Alpacas!

Sweetness!

My Hobbit Self

Renact your fav moments!

Welcome to Bag End!

Come on in!

My favorite Hobbit door.

At the Green Dragon!

Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Park

Jewel Straite and I at Wai-O-Tapo Thermal Park

Enjoying the Banquet at Hobbiton!

The Gang from Armageddon in Mordor’s front yard!

London 2017

Knockturn Alley group shot

The Harry Potter Walk. We are in the alley used as the inspiration for Knockturn Alley

Halloween

In Leadenhall Market on Halloween Night! I have never been there alone! Spooky!

Halloween at the Tombs

What a fun and very weird evening this was!

Witch and Kitty

The best Halloween costumes are the ones that surprise and delight you. This witch had her real live familier with her! Cutest Kitty Costume!

Centauri Delights

I had some delightful visitors to my table! London MCM

Uh Oh

It’s unnerving to look up and see this guy checking my table out. Or am I dinner? London MCM

Man in Black

Everyone’s friend, Tony Martin, stopped by to make sure I was ok! Tony was on the Hawaii 2017 Quest! London MCM

2 of the 300

Nice view from my table. I was in a great spot! London MCM

Red Queen and her Knight

If there’s an Iron Throne around, I have to be in it. London MCM

David Bradley!

I think we look like a nice couple! He’s a sweetheart!

Good guy to know

And my dear pal The Doctor came by to see if I wanted to pop out for a few minutes….whatever that means. London MCM

Photo Shoot Gals

Jess DeVries, photographer extraordinaire!

Harry Potter Exhibit at The British Library.

Mags and Mel finally got me over to the exhibit I SO wanted to see. And man was it worth it.

Lateness Excuse Generator

As seen on the Tube. Brilliant. I love the sense of humor!

Camden Tea House

I always try to get over to Camden Town on a not too busy day.

Cursed Child

At the Palace Theatre to see Harry Potter and The Cursed Child Parts 1 & 2. What a magical evening.

The Cursed Child evening

Meeting my friends Jesse, Mags, Tony and Jess before the big night!

Harry Potter Magic

I just thought this was a perfect sign.

Mad Hatter Night

Steven brought a real Roman glass for me to have some wine out of!

Mad Hatter

Looking at the crowd before my talk. I had a wonderful time.

Tower Bridge

On one of my last walks around London. I never get tired of the Tower Bridge.

The Harry Potter Walk- London 2017

Knockturn Alley group shot

The Harry Potter Walk. We are in the alley used as the inspiration for Knockturn Alley

Listening to Luke

Luke was giving us a tour around London. I was enjoying every minute of it!

Knocturn Alley

We’re all listening to Luke as he tells us about Knockturn Alley’s history

Knockturn Alley

Knockturn Alley, the dark version of Diagon Alley, and where Borgin and Burkes is located.

Alongside the Thames

Luke is telling us about the history of the Anchor pub and the Great Fire of London

Borough Market

They couldn’t get the KnightBus through here! In the background you can see the Clink

The Magical World

Do you know how muggles see magical places? Often as ruins.

Scotland Yard

This was used as the Ministry of Magic in “The Deathly Hallows”

Bridget Jones DIary

Outside Bridget’s Apartment

the Leaky Cauldron

One of the locations used for the Leaky Cauldron

Borough Market

Luke showing us the scenes that were inspired by Borough Market

The Golden Hind

The history behind this ship is in part what the Horcruxes are based on. (Sir Francis Drake)

Full rainbow!

We were magically blessed by a full rainbow! And you can see St Paul’s Cathedral which was used in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. In the movie, the staircase scenes heading to Divination were shot along the Geometric Staircase there

The Clink

Together with Alcatraz the Clink was used as inspiration for Azkaban

Walking the Streets

Covent Garden

London History

Our group is listening to Luke as he tells us about the bridge (Wibbly Wobbly) used in the movies and how the director decided to completely wreck it.

The Anchor Pub

This pub was frequented by many actors and playwrights from theatres nearby like the Globe.

Outside the Anchor Pub

The Anchor is also where diarist Samuel Pepys saw the Great Fire of London in 1666. He wrote that he took refuge in “a little alehouse on bankside … and there watched the fire grow”

Sherlock Holmes Pub

Our home base for the 2016 retreat

The view!

View from Trafalgar square on our way back from the tour

Wales 2017

Rainbow

Rainbow in Aberystwyth, just a glorious city on the coast. With my friends Emma and Laura.

windy girls

Emma and I enjoying the clean but brisk breeze!

Murmuration

Emma and Laura watching the starlings doing their evening dance before bedtime.

City view

Gorgeous Aberystwyth!

Aberyswyth

The Castle at Aberystwyth.

Aberystwyth rainbow

Old House

Plas tan y Bwlch in Snowdonia, is an Environmental and Outdoor Studies Centre.Amazing gardens!

valley view

Across the valley looking from the house and gardens

winter garden

Even all asleep for the winter, it’s still beautiful.

Inside Harlech Castle

This was a spectacular castle. We had a really nice dinner nearby as well.

stairs

Looking up into one of the towers.

Harlech

Cardiff

Inside the walls of Cardiff castle. It’s really worth a visit!

portmerion

Where “The Prisoner” was filmed in the 1960s.

banquet

The banquet hall of Tretower castle

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Tretower castle

graffiti

Tretower castle

London 2016

Enjoy some pictures of our 2016 London Adventure!

Stonehenge

Sully, Darcy and Sherryl on a walk around Stonehenge!

Doug and Dragon

Doug’s costume was Norbert the baby dragon.

Leadenhall Market

The gang at the gorgeous Leadenhall Market, where scenes from the Harry Potter films ( and many others) were shot.

Stonehenge

Selfie shenanigans

At the HPST

Monica and Sully with Josh Herman who played ‘Goyle’ in the Harry Potter films, at the Harry Potter Studio Tour! Josh joined us for the day. He had never been!!!

Kings Cross Station

Vic and Stacey get into character at Platform 9 3/4.

Carousel at Southbank

We walked across the bridge from our hotel for an impromptu adventure.

At the Palace Theatre

Every one holding their golden tickets for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child!

Beanies!

Darcy and I bought matching beanies! The Tower of London is behind us.

Gorgeous London

I’m definitely going to be on the lookout for ANY thing Sherlock related!

I love anything spooky and am creating the best excursions hoping to be scared!

knight-bus

You never know when we might need to catch the Night Bus!

The Sherlock Holmes Pub. Right outside our hotel!

Harry Potter Studio Tour

Christmas at Hogwarts

The Great Hall at Hogwarts decorated for Christmas. We were there on opening day!

Big Ben with the London Eye

london eye

A view from the bridge near our hotel!

London is modern and exciting but also very old. Ancient.

Theatre goers

Outside the Palace Theatre!

Rowan and Noma

Rowan and Noma who plays Hermione in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

At The HP Studio Tour

Arti Shah who was in many films including Harry Potter!

Outside the Palace Theatre

Rowan and Monica on Theatre Night!

Hogwarts Express 2016

The gang at the Harry Potter Studio Tour.

Harry Potter Studio Tour

Keri and Pernille stop by Professor Umbridge’s office at the Ministry.

Hawaii 2015

Women in SciFi panel at HawaiiCon

Claudia Christian ,Esme Bianco (Game of Thrones), Jane Espensen , Tori Higginson, Pat & Brad Bell

Cosplay from one of our sponsors Kapohokine Adventures

Snorkeling is amazing on the Big Island

Divemaster Flipper with one of our manta friends

Having Fun!

HawaiiCon Volunteers

Questers with actors Tony Amendola, Reka Sharma, Rod Roddenberry

Snorkelers enjoying the show put on by the Big Island manta community

Quest girls

Pat with her Quest Ladies

Rod Roddenberry and Christopher Judge join the Questers for a morning snorkel!

Questers on our boat with celebrity guests Rod Roddenberry and Christopher Judge (Stargate Atlantis)

Celebrity Signing

Pat, Claudia Christian (Babylon5), Aaron Douglas and Michael Hogan (Battlestar Galactica)

Pat & Friends

Jason Mamoa

A big hug froma big man! Jason Mamoa

weeping angels

I think this was my favorite cosplay ever!

HawaiiCon

Pat and a Doctor Who and Star Wars fan, Vahid!

From a DS9 episode, Battlelines

KJA & PJT

With Kevin J Anderson

On the beach

with my 2 dear friends Claudia Christian and Mira Furlan

Cheeky!

I ran into this cheeky fellow coming out of a Police Box!

klingon sisters

I doubled B’Tor in Generations ( I’m on the left)

Awesome cosplay by Marco and Eugene!

Love these guys! Dean Haglund ( X-Files) and Tim Russ (Voyager)

I was Gates McFadden’s stunt double for many years!

Vulcan Babes

Just having fun!

San Diego Comic Con

with my son Julian and the gorgeous Clare Kramer

Austin Powers

That’s no lady! That’s a man, Man!