Showing a Friend around My Hometown
I recently took a very quick trip home to Dallas because my best friend, who went back to China and has been there for the last two years, was in […]
Category Archives: Historic Site
My World Heritage Adventures
One thing you’ll see on my updated bucket list is “Visit the most significant historical, cultural and natural sites in the world inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.” Not […]
Top 5 Posts from 5 Years of Adventure Patches
This week Adventure Patches turns five! I published my first post for an assignment in a college five years ago today. I didn’t know I would continue beyond that semester-long […]
Lego, Cars and UNESCO
Lego The first part of 2015 has been very eventful at my work place. It began with the unveiling of a special model of Wright’s winter camp made of more […]
A New Year’s Adventure to Tumacacori
Ever since rafting on the Li River on New Year’s Day in 2012, I’ve wanted to make each New Year’s Day a day of adventure to set the next 365 […]
The Price Tower continued
Continued from the last post – “the tree that escaped the crowded forest” The Experience I stayed in one of the converted office spaces on the 8th floor on the […]
“the tree that escaped the crowded forest”
Standing in a small town in northern Oklahoma is the only realized skyscraper designed by one of America’s greatest architects. Its creator called it “the tree that escaped the crowded […]
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
The Ancestral Sonoran people known as the Hohokam once numbered as many as 50,000 people around what is now Phoenix. With this large population came expansive civilization with multiple large […]
Flagstaff’s Three National Monuments part 2
Continued from Flagstaff’s Three National Monuments part 1 posted 25 Nov. 2014 Sunset Crater National Monument One hypothesis of why the people of Wupatki left almost 1,000 years ago is […]
Flagstaff’s Three National Monuments part 1
When most people think of North American civilization, they often think in terms of the last few hundred years when the pilgrims settled Plymouth or the Spanish conquered Mexico and […]
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