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Houston Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Houston, United States
Houston
I flew back to Houston to spend another week at home with my parents before leaving for 6 weeks in New ...
Houston to San Antonio - Real Cowboy Country
... killed. Santa Anna's perceived cruelty during the battle inspired many Texians—both Texas settlers and adventurers from the United States—to join the Texian Army. Buoyed by a desire for revenge, the Texians defeated the Mexican ...
Shocking story!
... . We were in the rain for about 15 seconds but it looked and felt like we’d been for a swim. We watched the weather report on TV and found out that there were 2000 lightning strikes per hour in Houston during the storm. I think a drink is in order. ...
Pre-departure Orientation
The goodbyes have been said, and my new life begins. Yesterday, I had a wonderful dinner with my Rice friends at the Hobbit Cafe. Afterwards we went to Teahouse and played Taboo. That night, I dreamt of saying goodbye to old friends who ...
Battleship TEXAS - with pictures!
... State Historic Site consists of the Battleground, Monument and Battleship Texas. These sites are located within minutes of downtown Houston and a short distance to the beaches of Galveston Island. Millions of visitors come to this area each year to enjoy ...
Family Reunion
Aaaah the humidity of Texas. Today I had a short flight that I somehow almost missed. I got up at 7 but today was one of those days when it was hard to find parking at the Denver airport. Anyway I made it to the plane 5 minutes ...
Back to the grind in Houston
Sunday June 16, 2006 Will be here for a couple weeks of work and then to Chad's graduation from his medical program! Saturday June 30, 2006 Ali and I are on the road to move her up to Michigan! Our drive was 19 hours with stops to the new ...
Countdown at the Marriott
Chillin' in my hotel room. I still haven't had the whole "pumped up" feeling yet about the trip. I know I'll feel it tomorrow, probably on the plane. Speaking of the plane, my friend Chris told me about seatguru.com. It's a website that allows you to ...
We're off .......
... an hour. All the crazies that attended the South by South West festival decided to go home today. We did the short hop to Houston after a mere 37 minutes in the air. Now we are sitting in the Einstein Bagels eating a bagel and drinking a latte. ...
Étape 43 - DÉbut du retour vers le Québec
... ; golf, magasinage, marche, lecture et un peu de vélo ont occupé nos journées. Le mercredi 26 mars, nous prenons la direction de Houston. Départ à 7 h 30, car on veut arriver avant le trafic et on a 600 kms à faire. Tout a bien été et à 15 h ...
Houston: 4th Largest City in the US
... with Tom's Cousin, Kate. Kate and her roommate Killian took us to a really nice indoor/outdoor bar/restaurant near downtown houston that had specialized burgers and beers for all tastes called Onion Creek. It was a nice change of pace to sleep ...
Houston, TX, USA
... flight to Newark was not full and I could lie down across 3 seats and cat nap. Once in Newark, my changed flight to Houston was delayed a further 2 hours so I reached Houston early in the morning of 9/1. The trip lasted Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day ...
Back in the U.S.A.
Greetings from "South of the border" but North of our current one! Jim and I found a couple of plane tickets to Houston using our miles and did a little shopping for the home in Costa Rica - and while we were here we decided that we should ...
God bless the Horse Creek Inn
Our first cooked breakfast of the tour set the cyclists in good stead for the day. The day was to be very hard indeed. The hills were long and steep with very little protection from the heat. They could never have done it without the help of there ever ...
TransAm - Day 33
... of our family became acquainted with and was warmly received by the travel group. Today we left Eminence and rode today to Houston, MO where we have left apparently the steepest portion of the Ozarks. Eminence was quiet; but it begins to really bustle ...
On to Houston
... driven me over the edge if I missed the flight because I was goofing off? I think the men in the white coats would have had to take me away at that point. I landed in Houston and guess where my luggage ended up? IN HOUSTON!!! I was so ...
Back Again
... Miami was hit by a bird while landing. It hit the nose and was deflected through the right-hand engine. This caused a lot of activity around the plane and finally a replacement was sceduled. We arrived back in Houston about 2 hours later than ...
Connection to Sao Paulo by Carolyn Sauck
Stopped for a couple of hours at the Houston Airport... just enough time for me to run half way across the airport to find a mailbox to send a last minute document before boarding the flight to Brazil and for Erin to begin identifying Brazilians (vs ...
Rolling along on a tour bus to Houston
Yes, I was a bit giddy as I first climbed aboard. Though it's not my first time on a tour bus, it is my first time actually traveling in one. And then I was giddy as I climbed into my bunk to take a little nap. Yeah, yeah, all veterans ...
Bird Watching Near Houston Alaska
... house, I saw a pair of Red Crown Cranes. I have never seen any this close up before. The only thing that made waiting an hour for my hamburger at the Houston Lodge enjoyable was the small lake in the back. I sat on the deck and watched the ducks. ...
End of my road
So now I have come to the end of my road. Travel is of such importance to me because it truly is an education. I have learned many things over the last year; some essential and some trivial. I have learned about people and places all over the globe. I ...
Still at home packing for trip
It is raining in Houston. We hope to find dry roads on the trip to Amarillo tomorrow. It is longer than I usually like to drive in a day, but it should be a mostly cruse control day with little traffic. I would rather deal with the weather than the ...
We Made It
We arrived in Houston at 1230 and met with our land lady, Maria. We weren't all that impressed with the neighborhood when we first got off the highway. As we approached the condo complex we felt like we had just crossed the border into Mexico. We met ...
Anniversary 2007, Niagra Falls
We flew from Houston, Texas to Buffalo, New York, My wife's birth place. There we rented a car and took off for Niagra Falls. We had decided to stay on the Canadian side, as I had been there before and had never got to the American side. Little did ...
Houston, Texas
So I took a little detour through the Sam Houston Nation Forest, but couldn't enjoy the scenery for all the huge pickup trucks sitting on my butt. Gee, it's amazing how much power they have to pull horse trailers, but not enough balls to pass on the ...
Houston...more than just shopping!
... was for two weeks and I would be spending an entire weekend in the city, I decided to do some actual sightseeing. Houston has a museum district so on the Saturday, I visited the Houston Natural Science Museum and the Houston Fine Arts Museum. Both of ...
Don't Mess With Texas
... went to sleep expecting to all awake feeling the same as Isabelle and having to fall off our schedule. May 22 (Day 22) Houston-Lafayette, LA Miraculously, Isabelle awoke singing and had a good breakfast. She seemed fine and we seemed fine. Chris had ...
Good Times in Airports
It was all going so well. Before I reached the outrageous queues of supersize americans in Houston that is. My connecting flight over to mexico was from there but unfortunately, due to the laziness of US Border Security, I was waiting several hours to ...