SoMa Museums
In 2016, I spent some time exploring the part of San Francisco known as South of Market (or SoMa). I spent a good deal of that time at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. While I was planning for my [Read more…]
San Francisco 2017, Day 2, Part 1
Haight-Ashbury
I had been planning this day for a while, a day I decided to call Haight & Hills. I’d start out exploring famous hippie haven Haight-Ashbury. (Haight-Ashbury is also known as the Haight or Upper Haight.) [Read more…]
India 2017, Day 4: Jaipur, Day 1
The Pink City
I only had 1 day in Jodhpur, but I was just beginning my visit to Rajasthan. After an amusing and somewhat awkward hotel check-out, I took a 1st-class train ride to Jaipur, Rajasthan’s capital and largest [Read more…]
India, A Little History (Part 2)
[I promise. A brief history of India ends here!]
Here Come the British!
The Portuguese were the first Europeans to arrive as usual. They set up permanent shop in Goa in southwestern India. And as I learned watching “Life of Pi”, the French were also able to wrangle some coastal territory. The Dutch came and went as they do. But you no doubt [Read more…]
India 2017, Day 2: Delhi, Day 2
Old Delhi
In 1648, Shah Jahan, the Mughal emperor, moved the imperial capital from Agra to Delhi. In preparation for the move, he had a walled city called Shahjahanabad built in Delhi over the course of the [Read more…]
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