Just 3 weeks to go until we fly to Buenos Aires for our short, but thrilling (hopefully) adventure. We'll be there for 10 days, and since we're going all the way down there, we of course, have got to swing by Iguazu Falls for a couple of days. What do we want to get out of this trip? Well...mainly just to explore a new place...see what the culture and people are all about....and just get away! Planning for this has fallen on my shoulders as Shel ties up his master's degree. He's 'heads down' for another 2 weeks and then he's [View Full Entry]

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Austin, Texas18th June - 23rd June: Our next destination was Austin, Texas. It had been recommended to us as a lively University town with lots going on. After a 3 hour bus journey, we arrived at the bus station which was on the outskirts of town. Luckily, there was a bus which would take us right to our hostel and it only cost 50 cents. Once we checked in to the hostel, where we were in separate dorms, we headed into town to 6th street which we had been told was the main street for entertainment. After a short walk around, [View Full Entry]

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Galveston oh Galveston: 23/06-29/06 We fancied a week at the beach and Galveston on the Gulf Coast wasn't far away. It wasn't going to be much more expensive to hire a car than it was for the buses so we went out to Austin airport to pick up a bright yellow Chevy. We drove past Houston and over the bridge to Galveston Island and arrived in the weather beaten and slightly run down resort. We found our hostel which was right on the beach. Although it was a hostel we had a private room with a small balcony. After a stroll [View Full Entry]

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San Antonio: 30/06-06/07 We were now getting closer to Mexico but wanted to stay in the US for the fourth of July so we dropped the car off in Austin and took a bus South to San Antonio. We had booked a week in a campsite on the edge of town so when we arrived, we caught the local bus to the campsite where we pitched out tent in a nice spot under some pecan trees and spent the rest of the evening relaxing. In the morning we took the bus into town to find the market which turned out to [View Full Entry]

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Welcome to Texas! The first day in Texas was great! We started by going to the Lyndon B Johnson Presidential Library and Museum. It is very infomative about his life, family, and presidency. We toured it for a couple hours. After lunch, we visited the capitol building. They are right.. everything is bigger in Texas! This building was IMMENSE and beautiful. The stone building sits in the middle of a large, grassy park. The dome gleams in the sun and a goddess is perched on the very top of the building, holding a Texas star. Next, we went to the Lady [View Full Entry]

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July 4th started with me falling out of my bed. I do 360 mute grabs off 20 foot jumps. I’m contemplating skydiving next weekend. I get flat out rejected by the skankiest broads. When I say a fall, its not one of those pussy “roll-out of bed lie comfortably on the ground whilst still wrapped in your comforter” kind of falls. Not one of those “the day is sunny, the world is beautiful type of roll out of your bed” type falls. It’s a fall. In the never-ending list of shit I can’t stand in Texas, one of them is my [View Full Entry]

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If you can somehow get to the "front page" of the travel blog, select "Gallery" from the options and you'll be taken to the photo album titled "Europe through a lens". Click the picture and the album should open up. I have over 200 pictures, so I'll likely come back and add a few more - but this should be proof enough that we were there. We realized more often than not that the camera was either still in the hotel, at the bottom of the backpack, out of battery, or simply not working as designed. It's been my habit to [View Full Entry]

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Day 38 - July 14th HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMA !!!! Let me start by saying that today is my Mother's Birthday and I would like to wish her the happiest Birthday ever all the way from Texas !! She is the best mother anyone could ever ask for and she deserves a happy day !! I Love you Moma and I hope you have many many more !! Well, this morning started off with a big bang and I mean literally !! Tim and I were awaken by a loud unfamiliar clanking noise followed by a very loud explosion type sound sometime [View Full Entry]

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After the long drive yesterday, that took us into the wee hours of the morning, we decided to sleep-in this morning ! We thought "why not" it's not like we're in a big hurry to get anywhere and I don't think the Wal-Mart police were going to run us off anytime soon. Although the kids, the dog and Mike (Porkchop) were growing a little weary back at home, we assured them that we were on the home-stretch and it wouldn't be much longer. We had sent them some money for groceries a couple of days ago so we knew they weren't [View Full Entry]

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I guess you can say we slept okay last night considering that we were scrunched in between Jerry's All Night Lounge and Peter Pipers 24 Hour Pizza Parlor !! Tim stayed up for a little while last night searching the open skies for any form of life he could find with no avail. He really had his heart set on seeing a UFO while we were in the area, but I guess it just wasn't meant to be. Yes, I'm serious, he was up for hours watching the empty sky waiting for those blinking lights to come hovering over the Wal-Mart [View Full Entry]

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