Musical Instrument Museum one of the best museums I’ve ever visited Over the Thanksgiving holiday my parents came to Scottsdale for a visit. Unlike last Christmas when they came, none of us […]
2013 Gratitude Project – Travel: Fillmore and Cove Fort This month will be a celebration of travel. I am so grateful for the many opportunities I’ve had over my nearly […]
Santa Fe Answering the query from Jack Kelly in Disney’s Newsies: yes, Santa Fe is there. And, it is so much more than I ever thought. I spent just a […]
I enjoy visiting natural history museums. They make me get excited like a little boy. It’s probably because of the dinosaurs. Who doesn’t like dinosaurs? I recently made a visit to the […]
For some reason I’ve also had an emotional reaction when I see old news footage of the Berlin Wall coming down. I was just a child when the Cold War […]
The Perot Museum of Science and Nature A lot has changed in downtown Dallas in the last few years. There’s a big bridge that really isn’t anything special, a park […]
On the way to Dunhuang we stopped in Lanzhou, the capitol of Gansu province on a long layover. As we woke up on the train we looked out the windows […]
I’ve passed it on the bus dozens of times and I mean baker’s dozens not regular dozens. The front entrance is marked by five towers shaped like lotus stems and […]
Over the past six months of living in China, I’ve been repeatedly asked where I’ve been and what I liked the best. Being only a few hours from Shanghai by […]
Whenever I told people that I was going to Xi’an their first response was “Xi’an is an ancient city,” or something to that effect. I always just imagined it was […]
Adventure Patches 