Tanzania, Mt. Kilimanjaro

8am January, 14th 2020: Uhuru Peak at the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro 19,341ft (5,895m) above sea level.  The iconic sign everyone is waiting to have their picture taken with reads:

MOUNT KILIMANJARO

CONGRATULATIONS

YOU ARE NOW AT

UHURU PEAK, TANZANIA 5895M/19341FT AMSL

AFRICA’S HIGHEST POINT

WORLD’S HIGHEST FREE-STANDING MOUNTAIN

ONE OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST VOLCANOES

WORLD HERITAGE AND WONDER OF AFRICA

The Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe

Wardenclyffe Tower (1901–1917), also known as the Tesla Tower, was an early experimental wireless transmission station designed and built by Nikola Tesla in Shoreham, New York in 1901–1902. Tesla intended to transmit messages, telephony and even facsimile images across the Atlantic to England and to ships at sea based on his theories of using the Earth to conduct the signals.

In an attempt to satisfy Tesla’s debts, the tower was demolished for scrap in 1917 and the property taken in foreclosure in 1922. For 50 years, Wardenclyffe was a processing facility producing photography supplies. Many buildings were added to the site and the land it occupies has been trimmed down to 16 acres but the original, 94 by 94 ft, brick building designed by Stanford White remains standing to this day.
Shoreham, Long Island, New York
 

Miracle on 34th Street Home

This is the home featured at the end of the 1947 version of Miracle on 34th Street where a very young Natalie Wood jumps out of a car and runs up the front steps into the house of her dreams, thus confirming her belief in Santa.

According to the owner, the home is very tiny inside with low ceilings. He said that people come by all the time to take photo. Sometimes whole families all in matching outfit sit on the stairs to take a photo. He also said that sometimes people get angry that the previous owner added an addition and thus altered the look of the home. Only the exterior was used for the film. The owner was cleaning the gutters and that is why there are two ladders on the fronts of the house. You can see the owner of the home walking back inside the home to get out of my photo.
Port Washington, NY (Long Island)

 

Ganden Monastery, Tibet

A robe and yellow hat have been laid out for each monk at Ganden Monastery.  Each hat has a couple yuan on top of it as a token gift for each monk.  Ganden Monastery, Tibet.

 

 

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wingspread

Wingspread is a historic house at 33 East Four Mile Road in Wind Point, Wisconsin.  It was built in 1938–39 to a design by Frank Lloyd Wright for Herbert Fisk Johnson Jr., then the president of S.C. Johnson, and was considered by Wright to be one of his most elaborate and expensive house designs to date.

 

 

Finca Vigia, home of Ernest Hemingway, Cuba.

 

 

Lobby of the Hotel Nacional de Cuba.

 

 

Sailing aboard the 1888 oyster sloop.

Priscilla. The Priscilla is owned by the Maritime Museum in Sayville NY.

 

 

Old Westbury Gardens Lotus Pond (Long Island, NY)

 

Registry Room, Ellis Island Immigration Museum, Statue of Liberty National Monument, New York City.

 

“Oculus” World Trade Center Transportation Hub in New York City

This is inside the $2 billion “Oculus” World Trade Center Transportation Hub in New York City, completed in 2016. This photo was taken in the middle of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel painting exhibit. The large painting is the on the wall of the Sistine Chapel and is called the “The Last Judgment.” It is a depiction of the Second Coming of Christ and the final judgment by God of all humanity. The souls of humans rise and descend to their fates, as judged by Christ who is surrounded by prominent saints in the middle near the top.

 

Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Chile.

This view is the reward after 4.5 hours of hiking to the base of the Paine Towers. It is these towers at the far end of the lake that give the Torres del Paine National Park its name in Patagonia, Chile. Feel free to fill up your water bottle in the lake formed by the melting snow.

 

Salar de Atacama is the largest salt flat in Chile.

 

Church of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.

The Church of San Pedro de Atacama is a Catholic church in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. Constructed during the Spanish colonial period, it is reportedly the second oldest church in Chile.