Ever since rafting on the Li River on New Year’s Day in 2012, I’ve wanted to make each New Year’s Day a day of adventure to set the next 365 days off to a great start. Two years ago for … Continued
I had a busy Christmas vacation going to Oklahoma to see the Price Tower in Bartlesville, but that wasn’t my only excursion away from Dallas. I also went to Houston to visit family, a friend and the Houston Temple. I had … Continued
As you know if you’ve been following my adventures for a while, I have in addition to visiting Frank Lloyd Wright buildings on my bucket list to visit all of the temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day … Continued
Frank Lloyd Wright was a very prolific architect having designed more than 1,000 projects with around half of those actually being built. Of the remaining about 400+ still-standing Wright buildings only 70 are open to the public. The rest are … Continued
The famous Frank that made Bartlesville a destination before Mr. Wright was the Frank who founded Phillips Petroleum in the town 55 years before construction began on the Price Tower. Frank Phillips got into the Oklahoma oil business in 1905 and … Continued
Continued from the last post – “the tree that escaped the crowded forest” The Experience I stayed in one of the converted office spaces on the 8th floor on the northeast side of the tower, so my views were of … Continued
Standing in a small town in northern Oklahoma is the only realized skyscraper designed by one of America’s greatest architects. Its creator called it “the tree that escaped the crowded forest,” though a small grove has grown up next to … Continued
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Unabridged; narrated by Barbara Caruso; Recorded Books I recently finished Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. It is a great book, and for a couple of weeks I’ve found it difficult to put in … Continued
The Ancestral Sonoran people known as the Hohokam once numbered as many as 50,000 people around what is now Phoenix. With this large population came expansive civilization with multiple large communities or pueblos. With petroglyphs being part of the Taliesin … Continued
