Houston Hostel

... , met a girl from SF who is here to sirf for 10 days. She was a bit more lost than I and came with me to the hostel I booked. Already, in the 2 hours I have been here I met a girl I saw at Burning Man and two Israelis who are REALLY great. I can ...

... this rideshare really works. Steve turned up and I fare welled my buddies at Austin and started the next leg of my trip. The Houston Hostel was an old Southern House, with a big porch, complete with rocking chairs and a few rusting iron tables. I checked ...

... England) that was $15 a night in the 5 person dorm. So in Huston we find the street but cant see a Hostel, no sign just a residential street. HOUSTON... WE HAVE A PROBLEM! So now with out the handy blackberry with internet and google maps (we gave it back ...

... walk. We ended up going to the Brazilian consulate today after a 2 mile walk next to an over pass in the Uptown district of Houston. The location of all the fancy shopping my mom would just love. The 2 mile walk didn't bother us as much as the ...

... didn't get my booking from Hostelbookers but fortunately have a private room free which I take.  I'm not struck on the hostel, the communal rooms seem clean but I reckon my bedrroom hasn't been vacuumed for several weeks and I immediately decided ...

... Meteen na het inchecken vlogen we weer de taxi in om op tijd aanwezig te zijn bij de college football wedstrijd van de Houston Cougars. De wedstrijd stond in het teken van de "homecoming", een dag waarop oud-studenten en oud-docenten een bezoek brengen ...

... ;much needed” pedicures. That night we had another great meal at a local Mexican restaurant called Cyclone Anaya’s in midtown Houston. Even though it was a Wednesday the place was packed. Luckily a table for four had just opened up and we were ...

... more appealing than a dorm bed with an alcoholic, so I stayed three nights, busying myself visiting the museums and galleries around Houston, until Fran could come and get me. I hadn't seen Fran for eight years, and I don't think either of us could ...

My first proper day walking around Houston did absolutely nothing to contradict the stories of it being a concrete jungle; not only was there uninspiring building after uninspiring building, but even the Museum District seemed clinical. The sculpture ...

So...I'm on my way to Kenya, but first I have to endure an 8-hour layover in Houston...boring! Why couldn't I have gotten a layover in NYC or Washington D.C.! Even better, why couldn't my long layover have been in Amsterdam?!?!? Oh well...that's life! ...

... the end. I was able to get around quite well on the city buses; the day I left Denver, it was snowing, and when I arrived in Houston, it wasn't snow, but really heavy rain.  In fact, the moment I got off the bus, it was hailing.  Not a great ...

... they don't have a southern upbringing, they were unparalleled in their hospitality.      The Woodlands The Bartons live outside Houston in a master planned community called "The Woodlands", population 90,000.  It is a for profit design with ...

... , in the city of the same name.  Why, you might ask?  Well, on my way to Europe, I took a four day stopover in Houston to visit my girlfriend Elise.  For those of you who don't know, she is doing Teach for America in Hawaii, and is ...

... of common folk and nothing in town suggests that they are proud or ashamed of their most famous son. I then moved on to Houston and immediately headed to Space Center Houston which is kind of half-museum, half-science center. It's pretty fun and you ...

howdy y'all! hows it going? well we arrived here in Houston at 5.45am this morning! yuck- for once our train was on time which sucked as obviously no buses were running to get us to our hostel and we are too poor for a taxi so i had to sleep till 8am ...

... making last minute preparations. I'll have to spend one night in Rome before flying to Sicily, so I'm going to stay in a hostel near the Termini station. The place is called the Two Ducks, and I thought that was weird coincidence because Tahila gave me ...

stayed in terrible yha hostel here moved on pretty ...

... , blissfully hot, city by the beach with random street events going on everywhere you turned!   I dumped my stuff at the hostel where I was informed that there was a rooftop terrace (which, let’s be honest, was more than enough for me to ...

The two of us arrived in Cairns by Greyhound with Ophelie and spent our last night together getting talkative in the hostel bar. We even roped in a young Dutch lad who was travelling on his own. We all talked his head off and are pretty certain he ...

DAY 1 - We needed to get our flight to Houston from Chicago O’Hare. We left the hostel ten minutes later than planned, got off the train at the wrong station to change trains to the airport and ended up having to wait 20 minutes for the airport ...

In Arequipa -- I left Houston at 3:30pm, arriving in Lima at 11pm. The fun began when I first stepped off the plane. Unlike all other major cities I have flown to, you actually had to walk down the steps on the runway and walk into the terminal ...