North America
Travel Tips for New York
First of all, New York is HUGE!! With five boroughs (Manhattan, Bronx, Queens, Harlem, and Brooklyn) you need time to see everything. And you need to visit all boroughs to get a real feel of […]
USA
New York
New York: Empire State Building, B.B Kings, Intrepid Sea, Air + Space Museum, Ground Zero + 9/11 Museum and Trump Towers
Empire State Building I took the elevator to the windy 86th-floor open deck observatory of this famous 102 storey tall skyscraper which is a well known New York landmark. Even with windchill at -14 degrees […]
New York
New York – Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty
Ellis Island Ellis Island immigration museum was a real eye-opener into the history and creation of the United States of America through mass immigration. It explains the diversity of some part of the United States. […]
New York
New York: Times Square, Rockefeller Center, Swing 46, United Nations and Sweet Chick
I first saw the Manhattan skyline as we drove in and I looked out of my window to the right I saw lady Liberty herself. My driver playing 80’s disco funk, with a cracked wing […]
California
San Francisco – Alcatraz Island
Being in San Francisco meant I was close to Alcatraz Island so I had to make the trip. Only 1.25 miles offshore from the bay, I took a ferry from pier 33 to this infamous […]
California
Oakland, California
I took the Bartt train from Powell St station to Lake Meritt only a 20 minute train ride to Oakland, home of the Black Panthers. Visited the Oakland Museum of California which was only […]
California
South San Francisco, Union Square & Bay Area
CALIFORNIA – Home of start-up tech companies such as Google and Amazon and the renowned silicon valley the global center for technological innovations. South San Francisco located in the Bay area of Cali is also […]