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If you only have one day to spend and see places in San Francisco, California, where will you go? The first time I visited San Francisco, I was there for a week. But I was not there for fun, but for work. A long-time Filipino friend who resides in SF…
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Whether you visit Mount Rushmore, South Dakota in summer or winter, it does not matter. If the Four Faces is fantastic on summer, it still feels and looks amazing when snow is falling or when the temperature dips too low. Also: See my other travel adventures here. You can lay…
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On our way back to Brookings, South Dakota from our trip to Rapids City, my friends and I decided to stop by Mitchell’s tourist attraction, the Corn Palace aka the World’s Only Corn Palace. We have heard about it from the locals and since all five of us haven’t seen…
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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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When I heard about the name I thought it was just a joke. You know, the kind of name one creates out of nowhere. But Pow-wow does exist! Someone told me thPow-wow,at the term Pow-wow was derived from the shout or chant American Indians do — like that long shrilling…
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A couple of weeks ago, I had the chance to go to Nebraska with my colleague Val and our respected boss Geoff. It wasn’t a trip for shopping and merrymaking, but for research. The trip alone from South Dakota was long, about 6 hours drive. Apart from the few stops…
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This is my last post about my New York trip. The last league of my trip was spent in the only aquarium in New York City, which is also part of the largest network of metropolitan wildlife parks in the US – the New York Aquarium. The Aquarium is driven…
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