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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The Valle View Reserve in Fairborn, Ohio is just half a mile from where I live. But I had never gotten the chance to visit the site because it never showed up on searches for “things or places to see in Fairborn“. The bigger parks and reserves around the area…
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Ruggedly beautiful – that’s how I call the Temple of Tolerance in Wapakoneta, Ohio. The owner, Jim Bowsher, started building this on his backyard in 1981. Its purpose is to help troubled kids find peace and keep them from ending behind bars. What is this exactly? It’s a collection of…
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The year 2019 was the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s moon landing (yes, that was 1969)! I had been planning to visit this museum after I read an article online about its story. And finally, in October 2019, I got to see what Armstrong Air and Space Museum has to…
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Since I love writing essays, I am planning to put all my essays into a collection and I would have it available for free download on Amazon as an ebook. The compilation is called “The Light at the End of the Wing.” I will post the link soon.
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The Money Museum is a free-admission museum in Manila Philippines! It chronicles the history of the Philippine money. The development of monetary systems over the centuries paved the way for the complex network of national and international trade, investment and credit which runs our modern world. One of the primary…
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It has been eight years since I last visited these places in Cebu City — Gaisano Metro Colon, Oriente Plaza, and Gaisano Main along Colon Street, the oldest street in the Philippines. Seeing these buildings where I used to frequent in my college days has brought back happy memories.
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Here is another set of jokes as we close the year 2019. We tried to collect new super funny Bisaya jokes and post them here. This is part 36 in our series. I am hoping that you are all enjoying our series of Cebuano and Bisaya jokes! If you missed…
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The SM Seaside Mall along the South Coastal Road in Cebu City, Philippines isn’t only about shopping inside specialty stores and eating in exquisite restaurants. The huge mall boasts a unique experience that no other malls in the city could offer. It has a SkyPark at the rooftop level that…
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