Tag: Monuments

• January 3, 2008

  Time to head home.

  The only available day to visit the recent historical landmark of the African Memorial Exhibition, happened to be today, on the last day in NY. After missing the entrance a couple of times (it’s in the back of a Federal building), it was finally found and the appropriate security checkpoints navigated through. Envisioning a small…
• January 1, 2008

  Liberty Island, Chinatown, and some absent sky-line.

  Today finally saw the rains come down, right at the time and place I wish they hadn’t. Standing in a line for a ferry ticket to Liberty island, while an icy wind forced the rain right at me. The ticket booths are in a central area with no covering, which considering it’s New York and…
• November 22, 2007

  Huntsville, Texas.

  What with the money issue and an hour delay from the flight, I’ve made the first sacrifice of the trip – opting out of the (2nd revision) Galveston/Houston Space Center trip and will catch up some time, going direct to Dallas instead. Currently I’m taking a break in Huntsville, at the statue of Sam Houston.…