It's spring in South Korea. The mountains around me are becoming more lush, the flowers are blooming, it's warming up, and my allergies are once again kicking it into over drive. For cherry blossom season I met up with some girls from nearby and joined them for a ride through Ttukseom park. I thought since [...]
Tag: parks
St. Louis-Tower Grove Park
Tower Grove Park is located at 4256 Magnolia Avenue in St. Louis. The 289 acres (1.17 km²) of land the Tower Grove Park resideds on was donated in 1868 by Henry Shaw, who also started the Missouri Botanical Garden. (The Botanical Garden is also near the Park.) There are 11 beautiful pavilions throughout the park. The [...]
South Carolina: Redcliffe Plantation
Redcliffe Plantation was completed in 1859 by James Henry Hammond and is the smallest of his many plantations. He named it Redcliffe because the dirt is red around the house and it sits up high. It was his show plantation, the party house, or the place to show off just how well he and his [...]
South Carolina: Hopelands Gardens
While visiting family in Georgia we spent some time in South Carolina and one of the first places we visited was the Hopelands Gardens. The Hopelands Gardens were given to the city of Aiken and opened in 1969 as a public garden, however there are still private residences on the 14 acres. While we were [...]
Georgia: Savannah Rapids Park
For the holidays I've been/will be doing a bit of traveling in the US outside of Chicago. For Thanksgiving I went to visit some family in Georgia and we went to check out the Savannah Rapids Park. The Augusta Canal is on the Savannah river and it runs along the border of Georgia and South [...]
Chicago Botanical Garden
The Chicago Botanical Gardens are located in the suburbs of Chicago at 1000 Lake Cook Road in Glencoe Illinois. The garden is free and open daily but parking is $25. My Aunt use to bike there from the city, you can also take the Metra Union Pacific North Line to the Braeside stop. It's about a 15 [...]
Comfort Station
In the middle of Logan Square is the Comfort Station located at 2579 N Milwaukee Ave. It's a art building, usually whenever I go by it's closed off but recently while walking past I noticed the door was open and inside the walls were covered in art. The building looks like a little cottage [...]
Peter Pan at Kensington Gardens
Our last full day in London started out early and was packed. I had made a list of things I wanted to see and first up was to the Peter Pan statue at Kensington Gardens. The story of Peter Pan has always been one of my favorites every since I was little. We took the [...]
Virginia-Skyland Resort’s Pollock Restaurant
Last time we went to Virginia and up on the Skyline Drive we stopped to eat at a restaurant over looking the mountains. It was gorgeous, somewhat fancy and I couldn't remember which one it was, and after stopping at the wrong spot we backtracked and found it again at Skyland. Skyland existed long before [...]
Virginia-Shenandoah National Park: Dark Hollow Falls
The Skyline drive of the Shenandoah National Park also is filled with parking spots for hiking. Even if you are not planning to go hiking I suggest you wear tennis shoes or hiking boots, just in case and bring water. Why? Because I didn't plan to go hiking and I still went hiking, without water [...]