Dumbfounded – to be speechless with amazement; astonished. That pretty much sums it up. This Saturday afternoon, my dad and I made the trip downtown to be a part of the spectacle that is Super Bowl XLVI. We went searching for downtown Indianapolis, yet when we got there, we couldn’t find it. What used to [...]
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller. First of all, I would like to welcome you all back to my blog! I hope that the summer gave you all ample opportunities to travel, explore and, most of all, learn about the world around you. Now that we are [...]
Continue reading …“Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.” – Ansel Adams The way I see it, summer is an opportunity for 3 months of endless adventure. As summer is around the corner and school is coming to a close, the adventure season is about to take off. [...]
Continue reading …“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.” – Henry David Thoreau On March 16, the MV Olivia crashed into Nightingale Island while crossing the Atlantic from Brazil to Singapore. The crash resulted in a spill of 800 tons of fuel spilling into the surrounding waters. Nightingale Island, [...]
Continue reading …“It fairly took my breath away.” – Hiram Bingham. In the morning of July 24, 1911, Hiram Bingham III, a 35-year-old assistant professor of Latin American history at Yale University, set out to investigate reported ruins on a mountain plateau known as Machu Picchu (“old mountain”). What he found prompted him to ask, “What could [...]
Continue reading …“I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.” – Wilbur Wright. As you know, Wilbur was wrong. On December 17, 1903, the brothers flew the first successful piloted flight in history. As interesting as their aviation history is, many people also know where their [...]
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