Bolivar Peninsula is accessible by ferry from Galveston Island. From the ferry decks, a lighthouse would be visible. It was catching to the eye even from a distance because of its dark colors against the sea in front of it from our vantage point. Link and I got off the ferry and…
He offered his driver to show me around Mumbai for this particular day. He was a very kind Indian colleague. And I gladly accepted 🙂 Our target was the Gateway of India area. I was thrilled to finally see the famous landmark myself and check it off my bucket list after…
The 22-story flat-iron shaped building that is one of the famous structures in New York City in its 115 years of standing thin :-). Occupying the building today are few shops on the ground floor, and Mcmillian Company and related publishing businesses. In the future, this will be converted into…
The very kind and soft-spoken workmate (he does 200 push ups every day!) was now the driver on our return trip. He’d been driving for about four hours already without saying anything, and I know that he must be hungry. We missed one town, so our ‘last’ opportunity would be the…
We were glad that there were a lot of restaurants to choose from close to the hotel where we stayed at. In fact, Abilene has 257 restaurants. However, of our four days together, we ate at Cracker Barrel twice for breakfast, twice at Subway for lunch, and twice at Chili’s for dinner!…
From the site, it took us about 30 minutes to get to the hotel for an hour of rest before checking out the city for restaurants for our meals. We stayed at Holiday Inn Express and Suites. So on this field trip, we were accumulating some loyalty points for hotel rewards later.…
The world’s largest Buffalo Skull, an outdoor structure which weight about 4,000 lbs., is located in the facility of Frontier Texas in the city of Abilene. From Sulphur Springs, we drove to Abilene. I-30 go through the center of Dallas, however, we got on Highway I-20, instead, upon approaching Dallas to…
Feel and enjoy the breeze! Lake Ray Hubbard is a 22,000-acre fresh water reservoir, and is one of the biggest recreational lakes in Texas. Restaurants, shopping, movie theater, salons lined the shores graced by a giant fountain. On the Harbor on the Lake, people could go fishing and recreational boating.…
Our first accommodation for this trip was in Sulphur Springs, Texas. We booked our hotels through the corporate travel site, egencia. It was very convenient since after management approval, our hotels would be booked automatically.
The breathtaking colors of the sky just before sunrise while driving on the quiet road from El Paso to Marfa one early morning after the scenic drive sunset viewing.