Xav1981

Well, here we are. Saturday morning, September 10. I’ve been waiting for that day for weeks now. If we decided to visit the state of Texas in late summer for a specific non-football related reason, the specific timeframe for our road trip was all about this date: BYU at Texas, Cougars at Longhorns...yeah, this is college football. We still have a long way to go though (Literally speaking). Kick off is scheduled for 06:00 PM and Austin is 165 miles from Houston, roughly a 3 hours drive. I don’t mind, this should be fun... 3 hours on the road, perfect weather (i.e. hot and sunny), a nice car, good tunes on the radio, considering we’re tourist and not local, we decide to make the journey with the top down, after all, this is the reason why ... read more

After roughly 11hrs in the Air, we finally reached our destination at 01:30 PM, local time: Houston, Tx. I don't usually have a problem with flying, except when it comes to have lunch onboard, this is beyond me. I find landing and takeoff (slightly) exciting and the rest of the flight boring. In order to make the flight go faster, I had the choice: Either go with one Margarita (My drink of choice) or some Donormyl (some over the counter drug supposed to help you sleep). They did not have Margarita mix onboard, so it was all about Donormyl from this time on...needless to say that what once worked on the way back from Vietnam did not work this time...at all. After the usual custom/immigration formalities at IAH (George Bush Intercontinental Airport ), we're good to ... read more