What's up dearest Hiveans! It's been a while since I last posted a travel blog. I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying your well-deserved summer break.

According to Roger Caras, "Some of our historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks."

Along with my journey in teaching as a J1 exchange teacher in the US is the opportunity to walk in some of the historical places of this country. Allow me to bring you to these historical places that I've been to.

The Monument Valley

Apart from being one of the most photographed places on earth, this picturesque site is definitely notable in post cards. It is the astonishing red sand desert region with jaw dropping sandstone rock formations that were perfectly sculpted over time. Through the hour drive, these towering sandstone rock formations can be seen from afar. The central vision as we drive is exquisite. This is located on the Arizona-Utah border. There are several stops over where tourists and even professional photographers with their high-end camera equipment halt and take pictures of such amazing view.

This endless looking road is the pathway to the most renowned monument valley site.

This is the closest photo I took of the sandstone buttes.

The experience of racing against the vehicles just to get these perfect pictures in the middle of the road will forever be imprinted in my memory.

The Four Corners Monument

United States of America is comprised of 50 states. Did you know that 4 of these states meet at one single point? Yes, this is the only place where you can be at the border point of 4 states at the same time. This is the so called the Four Corners which marks the quadripoint of the Arizona, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico. Being at the boundary area, yes, it is one of the farthest locations of Arizona. Being so isolated yet it gave us the advantage to visit the nearby states easily.

Just me and my husband taking our turns to be in four states at the same time.

It was quite cold when we visited and all the flags were swayed by the wind.

This is the view from afar. A wonderful scenery of mountain ranges.

The Museum of Space History

As we go farther from the four corners, we opted to visit a historical place in New Mexico. The Space Museum. From the word itself, yes, it is a museum where they displayed the various aircrafts leftovers, rocket engines, test vehicles, flight suit and different devices used to explore the space. We get to walk, observe and even ride on to some of the displays accessible to the visitors.

These are the displays outside the museum.

This is museum building.

The test vehicle displays outside the building.

I was in awe upon seeing this rocket engine retrieved after the launch of the V2 rocket.

The Meteor Crater
As we head back to Arizona, we visited the one-of-a-kind Meteor Crater viewing site. We thought it was a simple viewing site, but we were wrong. It is one of the most well preserved and very informative crater viewing site in the world. They fully developed the surrounding area and made sure that the generations to come will get to experience it. I was shocked to see how big the crater is. There were telescopes on the site for people to view it closely. They even humorously put an astronaut mascot on the center of the crater.

These are pictures taken at the lower deck view area. My husband is on the bottom photo making use of the telescope to get the closest view possible to the center of the crater..