another group of photos has come in...

John got to travel to the white sands of Hymes beach, Australia

Julie Neill

I know it is sooooooo over due, i thought i had lost them and can across them just then looking through photos. Hymes beach on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia, 3 hours drive south of Sydney. Home to the whitest sand in the world.

John has reached the FINAL destination of his "final travels"....  one of the places that he had plans to visit was South America... but he was not able to complete that goal in his lifetime...

Thanks to my dear friend, Wendy Crouse Hinman , and her friend Leandro Brinca, John was able to go to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil!!!!!... and his final resting place is near the Cristo Redentor (Christ the Redeemer) statue at the top of the mount.

John was able to take a final train ride in Denmark

John has reached his final destination in South Africa....

a view of Table Mountain from below

the view from the top

Niel Cronje Said:

Ok ive decided to go to table mountain to help an friend out that brother loved traveling the world. We as South Africans believe that table mountain has to be one of the 7 wonders of the world but it isnt lol anyway it was a great clear day and no clouds in the sky i went up the cable car that day and scattered the ashes down the mountainside looking out towards Robben island the island where Nelson Mandela were a prisoner for 27 years ( thats the Small island from the photo from above table mountain ) and i just thought its the perfect setting to scattered the ashes for john .....PS i hope this is pretty good my eng is not that good anyway there the story hope it help peggie

John has reached his final destination in Scotland!!

Edinburgh Castle is a place that I think John would have loved.  I think he would have loved to learn of a bit of its history.... the castle sits atop castle rock... which is actually an extinct volcano.... and that location has had settlements on it since the iron age (2nd century AD) and has been involved in historical activity since the early middle ages.  The royal castle has been there since the 12th century.

I think John would have said something like "big castle fun"

Katie Rihtarsic Said:

I'm happy to help, it's such a brilliant idea in memory of all his travels.

John has reached his final destination in Dubai

John got to take a final camel ride 

scattering in the desert

Vida Williams said:  Mission accomplished john has reached his final destination

A visual of John's Final Travels... to date he has been laid to rest in OVER 50 locations!!... there are still a small number of places where the travels have not quite been completed.. but this is just AMAZING...and I want to again thank everyone who helped to make this possible!!

u can click on the map to see it larger and zoom in on it 

(sorry if i marked a location as the neighboring city or something... i tried to put the pin as close as I could figure out with just the outlines of the countries)

Our family is from Wisconsin.... John has now traveled back there.

This is the Chippawa River across the highway from the family homestead in Ojibwa, WI

at the gravesite of his maternal grandparents, Rose Bell Tappy and Fred Koeppler

AnnaMarie Slivicke Said: "Here some pics of John's final resting place back in Wisconsin. Some are in the waters of the Chippewa and remainder with his grandparents at the grave site in Radison. It was a wonderful thing that you did."

John has reached his final destination in Melbourne, Australia... St. Patrick's Cathedral..... just the type of place he would have visited.....

many times john wandered the streets of a city...turned the corner and suddenly there was an awesome cathedral at the end of the street...

 this face is just the type of unique detail that would have caught john's eye!

 Courtney made a donation and got a candle and lit it just for john 

John is now tucked in the beautiful flowerbed facing the cathedral

Courtney Ann Lee So we started our journey walking to the bus stop- only to find they've changed timetables/routes on us. So we got on the 908 for a few blocks, then got on the 907 to take us into the city. The bus was packed to go into the city and we gave up our seat for an elderly woman and stood the ride in. I'm sure John was a gentlemen and would have approved that too... We took some pics on the ride in. We got off at the Royal Eye and Ear hospital and took some pics on the walk in. We walked around and entered the gate, and walked into the church and took some pics. John and I donated a few gold coins for maintenance of the church, he also thought he should have a candle, so I got him one- tried taking a better photo but an annoying kid kept grabbing my stuff so it was a rush job. We walked back around to where I saw the nice flowers on the side of the church and decided it was time to part for now. I told him to enjoy Melbourne!

John has completed his travels in Israel.....

 The western wall (aka wailing wall) in Jerusalem

many leave notes and prayers in the wall, John is now resting among them

Michael Wellish Said: We went to Jerusalem, walked to the Old City, left some ashes in a little plastic wrap at the Western Wall, then followed a tour group over to the Mount Olives and sprinkled the rest around some graves there. My phone dies before that. Forgot to charge it last night.

John once swam in the Mediterranean sea.. on his trip to Italy... here is one of HIS pics from this blog of the spot in Monaco....

John said: If you ever get the chance... I recommend you swim in the Mediterranean sea...

Now he is swimming there once more... this time in TURKEY... the bay of Fethiye

Pauline Constantine Said:  Laura, my daughter, scattered them in the bay of Fethiye - it was lovely..... xxx

John has reached one of his final destinations in Israel...

The Temple Mount in Jerusalem...

Michael Wellish Said: "my friend got your brother's ashes to the temple mount today and sprinkled a bit all around" "no pictures sorry" "they don't allow pictures on the temple mount generally and especially now"

John has reached his final destination in the Blue Mountains of Australia..

A place called The Three Sisters

Susanne Fiebig Said: "It was a beautiful sunny wintersday with a slight chill in the air and as we scattered him the wind picked him up over the valley. It was quite beautiful"

John has reached one of his final destinations in Denmark...

Egeskov Castle.... this is Europes best preserved renaissance water castle.... According to legend, it took an entire forest of oak trees to build the foundation, hence the name Egeskov (oak forest).

John resting on the Count's bed

Bettina Nørbo Jensen Said: "When I had to find a place for me to scatter John's ashes I was looking for a place that was beautiful, peaceful and harmonic. This I believe i found in Egeskov Castle located in a big forest surrounded by water.

Egeskov has always been one of my favorite places growing up and had John come to Denmark while alive that is one of the places I would have told him to visit."

John has reached another final destination in England...

it is called the Mini Dam, in Matlock, Derbyshire.

Lisa Pritty Said: "the  spot was  picked as ur brother obviously loved travelling  and we figured scatter his ashes  in a gorgeous river so he is eternally travelling  fitting i thought"