2005 Manhattan NYC

It was a coincidence to meet Tom Brook – Talking Movie BBC,

but the only reason I came to this wonderful city was my nephews. I never met them, since they’re born.

After spend 4 days & night in Manhattan, walked around in miles & miles, oo Lord Allah the Almighty, I wish I live here ! In this island, nowhere else !

Manhattan isn’t a place only for new concrete skycraper. Many building still has genuineArt Deco – Art Neuvo fasade.

The central park is also a soothing place in summer, everyone has special gate to enter this green oasis.

And the museum : Gugenheim, well its.. building is much interesting than its collection

and MoMA, well.. again the collection seems like a resume, if you’ve been in the original places.

2005 Houston before Katrina

No tears leaving dry harsh Tucson to green glowing Huston Thank God we're back to civilization   Houston JFK Space Centre is now more like Disneyland, that what my husband said while he's been here many times in the past. Downtown area feel like in S'pore, green lush & well manicured. Starbucks is in every corner, haleluya for my espresso-addicted husband   Museums are also soothing   

Lucky we could see Galveston Island before the Katrina devastated the area. 

2005 Taliesin West

I must be blind, because I couldn't see what master FL Wright saw in this Scotsdale desert  !!!

2005 Tombstone

 

Wyatt Earp & famous gunshoot

 

and Geronimo

 

2005 Mt Lemon

again, beauty is subjective

or better to experience everything without a mental map ! Once my mind has a picture of what a "forest" should look like, it's difficult to accept other kind of "forest" Yup, my forest should be thick lush green rainforest or Bavarian schwarzwald blackforest, not cacti, sand & stone like this

2005 Tucson

Once again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. For our 2nd daughter, this city is so special & amazing. For us, Tucson is an eyesore of lowrise buildings w/ depressing color & the landscape only cacti, sand, stone

But I learn something here how Tucsonian build their house.

 

look for this detail bellow

wooden frame, chicken net, stereofoam sandwich w/ cement. The end products will look simmilar to adobe technique but how come its price double than a real adobe

1998 Monument Valley

Nevada-Utah-Arizona, where the flavor is, a Marlboro country

and I'm not a cowgirl

neither a postwoman

so better I go home, flew over Lake Tahoe

1998 Grand Canyon

 
We took Scenic Air from Las Vegas to Grand Canyon airstrip

 
and this is what I could see 

 

1998 our Las Vegas certificate

We had a religious wedding in Jakarta, and to legalize it, we first flew around the world for almost 3 weeks, then took only 10 mins to register our marriage

For a week we stayed in Excalibur – on an intersection of MGM Grand & New York New York. This is a part of our “honeymoon”    We really spent a “month full of honey” 10 days in Germany, 2 weeks in Venezuela & now a week here

Alhamdulillahirobilalamin, Praise God the Almighty for this luxury. May our marriage life be happily ever after, Amen.