1990–1999

• 👉 New York – June 1992 – a journey in which two strands of my life came together: Alti’s twelfth birthday, celebrated with his godparents, Anca and Tibi, and the completion of the editorial process for Integrating Tools for Software Development, through my visit to Prentice Hall in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

2000–2009

• 👉 From Brest to Paris – January 2005 – a journey through northern France, from Brest and Pointe Saint-Mathieu to Mont Saint-Michel, Saint-Malo and Paris, connected with a stage of my professional maturity.
• 👉 New York – October 2005 – a journey prompted by Anca’s eightieth birthday, celebrated at Rockefeller Center and then within the family, followed by my return to the Metropolitan Museum, Central Park, Fifth Avenue, Times Square, Lincoln Center and Columbus Circle.
• 👉 Crete – IHIC 2008, between the sea and Knossos – a journey for the 9th International HL7 Interoperability Conference, held at Aldemar Knossos Royal in Anissaras, where I presented two papers on the Virtual Healthcare Record, together with my impressions of the sea, Hersonissos, Heraklion and the Minoan palace.
  Dedicated subpage: Knossos – between myth, archaeology and reconstruction.

2010–2019

• 👉 Barcelona – February 2013 – a journey prompted by my participation in HEALTHINF 2013, where I presented the paper “Paradigm Shifts in Health Informatics,” and by my encounter with Barcelona: La Rambla, the port, Montjuïc, Fundació Joan Miró, Sagrada Família and the historic centre.
• 👉 New York and Florida – October–November 2015 – a family journey centered on Anca’s ninetieth birthday, including New York, the Metropolitan Opera, meetings with former students, Florida, Virginia Zeani and Key West.
  Photographic subpage: MoMA, New York, 29 October 2015.
• 👉 Belgium – October–November 2017 – a journey that began as a surprise planned for my son, who was living in Brussels, but which, because of his absence, became a solitary exploration of Brussels, Antwerp and Bruges: Grand-Place, the Royal Museums, La Monnaie, Antwerp Cathedral, Grote Markt, the canals and the museums of Bruges.
  Subpages: Brussels, Antwerp, Bruges.

Thematic links

Some journeys are best read together with other sections of the memoirs. The 1992 journey to New York is connected both with the episode “America Deferred” and with the story of writing and publishing Integrating Tools for Software Development. The journey to Crete is connected with my research on virtual health records, HL7 interoperability and my participation in IHIC 2008. The Barcelona trip is linked to my research in health informatics and my participation in HEALTHINF 2013. The journeys to New York in 2005 and 2015 are connected with the family account of Anca and Tibi, while the journey through northern France belongs to the period of professional and emotional maturity. The 2017 journey to Belgium is linked to my son's presence in Brussels and, through the unexpected change in the original plan, to the way in which a missed family visit turned into a cultural exploration of three cities.

• 👉 Integrating Tools for Software Development – the scientific and editorial context of the 1992 journey to New York and New Jersey.
• 👉 America Deferred – the refusal of the immigrant visa, two years before the 1992 journey.
• 👉 Digital Health – the scientific context of my participation in IHIC 2008 and HEALTHINF 2013, the LuMiR project, and the paper “Paradigm Shifts in Health Informatics.”
• 👉 Anca and Tibi – family context for the 2005 and 2015 journeys to New York.
• 👉 Maturity – the stage to which many of the professional and cultural journeys belong.