I have a Ph.D. degree. I love to travel, visit museums, national parks, and places few people know. I share my travel stories and more on this blog.
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Friday blackness. That is how it is this very moment. Interstate 90 looks like one of those highways in horror movies where creatures drop dead from the skies and into your windshield. The absence of light that could have come from civilization along this area in Wisconsin makes it hard…
Read moreI thought it would be timely to write about death. A lot of crying has been covered lately on TV and prints for the death of over thirty students at Virginia Tech. In the Philippines, the list of journalists being killed is growing and leaving pictures of families left behind…
Read moreWhat’s wrong with him? What’s with that slight cacophony in the way he moves nowadays? Every day, he senses a lovey-dovey cadence of delight he only felt in the comfort of a swing in the backyard back home. He is the composed gentleman. He is acutely aware that he is,…
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Portions of the vast fields patterned with black cows, patches of waterholes every now and then, rugged terrains devoid of vertical objects except for the catenary power cables that line the sideways of the highway – the Nebraska terrain is a graphic description of what deprivation of structural development is…
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This is just a set of photos I took while driving through Colorado’s I-70 on my way to Utah. Yeah, the Eisenhower Tunnel! It is a four-lane vehicular tunnel that is approximately 50 mi (80 km) long. The tunnel is the longest mountain tunnel and highest point on the Interstate…
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If you want to be near three country borders, travel to Maastricht in The Netherlands. Maastricht is the capital of Netherlands’s southernmost region, Limburg. It is close to the border of Belgium on its west and just a few miles to the east is Germany. What are the best places…
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When I visited Luxembourg for the first time, I immediately looked for the Luxembourg Cathedral. Located near the old town market and fashion street, the 1613 structure is the only Cathedral in the tiny country. It may not be as huge as the Notre Dame in Paris, the Renaissance-style inspired…
Read moreLiving isn’t fair. The past ten months in Brookings had been a continual tussle of having faith and not having faith – a fluctuation that, in most instances, opted to stop on the former. Lately, however, my psyche had settled for the latter. The infinitesimal linear membranes of my reasoning…
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