USC faculty and staff shared their summer vacation photos and memories with TIMES.

Don Byars, School of Medicine, and his wife spent a week on a wagon train. "We left out of Jamestown, North Dakota," he said. "The annual trip was sponsored by Fort Seward, Inc., a non-profit foundation, to preserve the pioneer spirit. Each day we would travel by wagon, walk, or ride horses (you had to rent or bring your own horse) an average of 13 miles a day (one day we traveled 20 miles and one only 8). The total trip covered 65.3 miles and ended in Streeter, North Dakota where we participated in their centennial parade. Each afternoon we set up camp in a different site, usually at least 20 miles from the nearest town and a couple of miles from the nearest house."

Richard Conant, music, toured Washington, D.C., and visited the Korean War Memorial, above. Also this summer, he and Kim Peters were married on the island of St. Lucia, below.

Janne Debes, Student Health Center, was sitting on Huayna Picchu in Peru when a Mountain Caracara landed beside her. A fellow climber photographed the moment.

Tim Donahue, theatre, speech, and dance, traveled to Sante Fe. "This photo was taken at the Bandelier National Monument, a site the Pueblo Native Americans occupied about 1,400 years ago," he said. "They lived in the caves and in dwellings of stone and adobe."

This photo of Gerald Euster, social work, and his wife Sandi was taken near Paulet Island, Antarctica.

The Kenney family traveled to Orlando. Lael Kenney, computer services, and her daughters stopped just long enough to pose in front of Cinderella's Castle at Disney World's Magic Kingdom. Husband Don, student services, captured the moment.

Bert Easter, University 101/First Year Experience, and Ed Madden, English, toured Paris in July. Their stops included the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre.

In May, Jamie Raynor, USC Aiken School of Education, and her husband traveled to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons, where they caught a glimpse of this coyote.

Carolyn Sutton, African American Studies Program, and her husband Cardell traveled to three countries in 20 days: Egypt (above), Italy (Rome, below), and Germany.

Pamela Riddle, law enforcement and safety/police, and her daughter took a cruise to Belize, Costa Mayo, Cozumel, and Progresso. It was, they both agree, "our best vacation ever."

Nancy Washington, libraries, traveled to Switzerland, where she saw the Castle of Chillon on Lake Geneva, above, and stood in the doorway of the English Church in Zermatt, below, a city that stands in the shadow of the Matterhorn.

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