Are your travels bringing you to South Texas in the near future? Well if they are I thought I could let you know about some of the things that you might want to do or see while you are here. Having lived in the Houston area for over 12 years now I know a little about the area and may be able to help. To start, I guess I'll tell you a little about how to get here. If you are travelling by air there are two major airports and numerous smaller feeder airports that you can fly into. To find [View Full Entry]

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So today was fun- spent money at ULTA for all my favorite products to take with me to Ireland :D I had a $25 gift card and I went a bit over that limit...but I'm good now! Had an awesome lunch at a new restraunt and I can't remember the name!!! Argh! It was delicious :) that is one thing about leaving I hate very much- all the awesome Texas food I'm leaving behind!!! :( But I imagine I'll find amazing food in Ireland and I figure that I should enjoy it as much as I can since I only have [View Full Entry]

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Hi! We've made it as far as Dallas! We 'enjoyed' the longest check-in ever leaving Vancouver as we scrambled (or as much as one scrambles when waiting over and hour in a line) trying to figure out how to not have 3 small carry-ons and still have the food we need for a full day. Thankfully, they took pity on us given that they weren't feeding us. We have a 3-hour layover in Dallas and are enjoying these complementary internet terminals: fantastic given that we hadn't yet gotten our final confirmation from Rahim of Ringo Guest house in Delhi who has [View Full Entry]

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Last night, after a visit to Tire Kingdom, we drove a little more 'till Crowley City (150 miles west from New Orleans)... we finally woke up a little early this time and drove, drove, drove, drove and drove a little more! That is all we did all day long, drive! We got to see Texa's neck of the woods plus the arms and legs ... farm and more farm... I used to think that I had a redneck backyard, but Texas country site has the whole package, you can't bit that!... front, sides, backyard full of junk. We stopped at Stephen [View Full Entry]

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Another day of driving. The wind was very strong and it slowed us down a bit. After Kerrville the mountains started showing up and we were pretty much in the middle of nowhere. Long farms, a house every 4 or 5 acres, lots of ruins. Lots of up and down. The speed limit is 80 mph and we were going 55 mph average.Terry's phone doesn't have any signal.. (maybe he will have some signal when we get to El Paso tomorrow morning). So, just to be in the safe side, we stopped our trip a little earlier than the other days, [View Full Entry]

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So, I just got back from a mandatory orientation for students going to study abroad from UTA. It actually was more helpful than I first thought it would be. I groaned when I had first heard that it was a 4 hour process, but it did not feel that long because we broke for dinner (pizza, yum) and got to talk to each other. We also had this kind cutesy exercise at the beginning where we sat together with other people and talked about expectations or concerns about the place we'd be going to. We had large sheets of butcher paper [View Full Entry]

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Monday ,leaving Houston, the 4th largest city in America behind, we drove up north today to Fort Worth , Texas. We saw a few of the small oil wells, well I think they were. The ones that look like giant hammers going up and down very slowly. They are scattered around the place , but we seem to come across about 20 of them and then no more for awhile. Got set up and then went and got some groceries after our bbq tea. Awesome evenings except for the bloody mozzies, they are shocking at the moment, so had to move [View Full Entry]

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Alan Gatewood Wenger 1934 - 2009 As many of you know, we received very bad news while we were in Brazil: on September 22nd, my dad, Alan Wenger, passed away while on vacation with my mom and sister in the U.S. Virgin Islands. They'd gone down for Dad's 75th birthday, and he died quite suddenly. We left Brazil as soon as possible and went to join them. Since then, we had Dad's memorial service, and we were honored to be joined by so many family members and so very many friends. As you might expect, our travel blog has taken a [View Full Entry]

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(Camp Tejas) Now we’re Texans, and enjoying it. Camp Tejas is about 40 miles east of Austin, outside of Giddings, which is a town of about 5,000. Tejas is Spanish for Texas, and means Friend. It runs summer camps and year round retreats. It’s really two separate camps now, an upper (the newer part), and the main camp. Last summer they had 5400 campers go through here, so you can imagine it’s a huge, active place. Last Saturday we went to Smithville for the Airing of the Quilts. It’s the first time they’ve done it, and after the response they got, [View Full Entry]

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Tuesday, we managed to keep in front of the impending low front system behind us. Got to the McAsey's about 5pm, Theyv'e got very nice neighbours who let us park our trailer beside their house. Wayne was on the ball and had cooked us a very nice dinner. Alysha had left that morning for Vegas , so we took over her room. Nice to have a normal bed for a change. Wayne had matress's for the kids too, so they found a space on the floor and for the 1st time in months we deserted the poor old trailer and slept [View Full Entry]

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