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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For 400 years, from 1150 CE to 1550 CE, the Ancestral Pueblo people lived on cliffs. They carved their dwellings in the soft rock cliffs of a beautiful Frijoles canyon in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The ruins of the dwellings still can be seen today at the Bandelier National Monument….
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At $89 a night, the Santa Fe Suites in New Mexico was a steal. Most of the reviews written online about the hotel were very convincing. Convinced, I booked the hotel and traveled during Columbus Day weekend. It was hard to find the location of the hotel. The GPS said…
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On July 16, 1945, the United States Army successfully detonated the world’s first nuclear weapon, and they called the test “Trinity.” The detonation was conducted in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 56 km southeast of Socorro, New Mexico. Weeks later, on August 9, 1945, Fat Man (a bomb of…
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New Mexico State University (NMSU) owns the Landscape Gardens in Las Cruces. I happened to visit the place when I was on my way to the Old Town Messila. It is located along W. University Ave, just right after the S. Main St. intersection. The garden is small but it…
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Here’s to all the laughters! We are now in part 20 of our endless series of Bisaya jokes and funny Filipino (sometimes bastos) lines. If you missed the other parts, check out more Cebuano and Filipino jokes in our archives. Enjoy part 20 of our Pinoy joke series 2015. ***…
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Here’s to all the laughter! We are now in part 19 of our endless series of Bisaya jokes and funny Filipino (sometimes bastos) lines. If you missed the other parts, check out more Cebuano and Filipino jokes in our archives. Enjoy part 19 of our Pinoy joke series 2015. ***…
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Thanks to GMA 7’s “Biyahe ni Drew” travel show, the small town of Argao (where I came from) in the southern part of Cebu, Philippines was featured on TV lately. The show covered mostly the main attractions Argao proudly promotes — from the Bugasok Falls, to the Agta Cave, to…
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Today, the giant Roadrunner Sculpture was finally found. I have read about this roadrunner monument made from recycled materials that stand along I-10 near Las Cruces, New Mexico, but nowhere online could I find its exact location and address. Google didn’t help. One online article mentioned about going east along…
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