Monday, August 30, 2010

My Travel Thoughts

One of my passion in life is travelling. I love to travel and see places but i dont really have the luxury to do it often because it not only takes time to vacation, it also takes money to do it. Thats why when I like to go places and take time to actually go there, I want to make sure that there is something in that particular area that makes the trip worthwhile like the beach, waterfalls, the foods, etc. In my Fifty States Travel blog, i always try to be more specific about the places I write about like what is out there and provide several pictures of the area if possible so that for those who read my blog posts and never been there would be able to visualize the place better before going there and spending money so that they can decide soundly if the such place meet their demands and expectations like services, sceneries, and available ammenities that you came to expect. Because traveling is a life investment and you spend money to get it. Investing in travels can be a good thing because the rewards could be having a more diversed lifestyle and great exposure of different cultures and traditions. 

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Friday, August 06, 2010

Watched Most Extreme Airports

We just watched a show that we recorded in our DVR. It was aired on History Channel called Most Extreme Airports. Its crazy how hairy and scary some of the airports are. Some airports made it to the list because of short runways, weather patterns in the area, surrounding area in the airport, just to name a few.

In this show that we watched, an airport in Nepal on top of a mountain with very high elevation made it on top of their list. I can understand why, the runway is very short, the runway is climbing, one side of the runway is cliff and the other is a mountain. Definitely no room for error there. Another airport that made it to their list is an airport with a runway that is so close to the beach that the wind that the planes produced when they are about to take off is so strong that locals and visitors in the area stay on the other side of the cyclone fence, hold on to the metal post fence, as they experience the wind of the engine blowing heavily towards them. Another airport is so weird, the runway literally cross a major road in the city, so they have to control a traffic like a train crossing and block the car traffic so the airplanes can pass through.

The show featured 10 extreme airports in the world. Its a cool show, its fascinating to see how other places in different parts of the world do things that we normally dont see being done in our own cities. Each airport is unique, they are designed according variuos factors like location, weather, and space availability.

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Friday, August 06, 2010

Wooden Furnitures Are Timeless

I grow up in a house with a bunch of wooden furnitures all over house. As a child, I never really care much about home decorating and interior design because all i could really think of was go out and play with my friends outside.

Now that Im grown up and live in a different house, I begin to realize how much i like having all the  furnitures we had as far as realizing its functions and how well they work into the space as a decorating element. In my existing space, I would like to have a round coffee table in front of the sofa so that I can entertain my family and friends and have the table for snacks and drinks as we gather in the living room for a chat. A matching wood finished end tables for the side lamps at the sides of the sofa would be ideal, so I can conveniently read in the evening in the living room.

I love to read books a lot and I buy all kinds of books every now and then. It would be neat to see them neatly stack in one tall bookcase with lots of shelves where I can easily display the books and browse through the titles and easily grab them when I need them instead of having them stored in boxes hidden in a room, where its hard for me to utilized and enjoy the books.

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