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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There was much to see inside the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. There’s the Natural World Photography exhibition and Geology, the collection of gems and minerals, and the origin of Oceans. The museum has so many impressive displays, yet I found the Human Origins very interesting….
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They are not the best museums I’ve been to in Washington, D.C., but the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Museum of African Art, Freer Gallery of Art, and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery are all still worth seeing. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden If you love modern art, then…
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You must have at least 2 hours to see the enormous collection inside the National Museum of American History building in Washington, DC. There is something for kids and adults, from the Hall of U.S. Presidents, to the history of various wars, to the display of the First Lady’s dresses….
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With the end of the current Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 missions, NASA will soon launch the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) or the Landsat 8 mission. I am pretty excited on this as I have been using Landsat datasets in my remote sensing research! For those interested of the…
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The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. is a beautiful walk through all the meanders of our memory. The Presidental Gallery and the American Origins Gallery are galleries not to be missed. Housed in the old Patent Office building, the National Portrait Gallery is connected to another gallery, the Gallery…
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December 25th in Brookings, South Dakota… It is Christmas 2012 and everything around me looks so gloomy! Sitting by the glass window and tapping my fingers on the wooden table, I stared outside watching for movements on the snow-covered walkways. No one is outside on Christmas day. The fact that…
Read moreImage courtesy NASA Goddard Photo “It’s the end of the world, as we know it…” Predictions all point to December 21, 2012 (this Friday) as the end of the world! These doomsday circumstances and theories all originated from the Mayan Factor, occurrence of solar storms, Nostradamus, alignment of heavenly bodies,…
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I love the name: Church of 100 Walls. The church is actually the Chapel of San Pedro Calungsod. The structure was built at the South Road Property to pay homage to the newly canonized Saint from Cebu, Pedro Calungsod. New York-based, Filipino-Colombian architect Carlos Arnaiz said, “Each wall is different…
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