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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The first museum I visited when I traveled to Santa Fe, New Mexico was the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. One of the most significant artists of the 20th century, Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was devoted to creating imagery that expressed what she called “the wideness and wonder of the world as I…
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If you don’t have time to travel to Albuquerque, New Mexico to see the stone arts, there is a much smaller area in the middle of the State where you see some petroglyphs. Visit the Three Rivers Petroglyph Site. The site is located 17 miles north of Tularosa, NM, and…
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The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris, aka, Sacre-Coeur, is situated atop the highest point in Paris, France. Built in the late 1800s, the Basilica is among the largest in the world. It was designed by architect Paul Abadie and was completed in 1914. The basilica’s distinctive white dome…
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The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico is the only museum in the world dedicated solely to advancing the understanding of the contemporary Native arts. The look of the museum from the outside is appealing, with all those multi-colored columns that line the sidewalk. Even…
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There are very limited free parking spaces when you travel and visit the downtown plaza of Santa Fe, New Mexico. If you go later during the day, chances are, you won’t find a place to park for free. But don’t worry, there are a number of city parking facilities around…
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Small garden, not so many variety of plants, and for a $7 admission fee, it is not worth seeing. I visited the Santa Fe Botanical Garden at the Museum Hill as it was just right across the Museum of International Folk Art. The entrance to the garden was a little…
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I stood in front of the “Mother of all Churches in the World” and enjoyed the moment of being there, thought about its historical significance, and appreciated its architectural grandeur. The Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome aka the Rome’s Cathedral constitutes the perfect linkage between the pagan and…
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It is the merging of the old and the new! The New Mexico History Museum and the Palace of the Governors in downtown Santa Fe are now connected. The Palace of the Governors is one of the oldest occupied government buildings in the U.S. and has witnessed four centuries of…
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