The girls came over fairly early Saturday. After much coffee drinking, we decided to ride to down town Wichita Falls to a resale place they like to browse. I picked a book entitle "Maine Lingo" up off the shelf and it was signed in the front by my cousin John Sjstrom, 1980, Farmington, Maine. He also lives in Texas, but is now a bit of a recluse, my mon doesn't even bother to try and visit him any more. It was very odd to find the book though, I didn't want to haul it all the way back to Maine and [View Full Entry]

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We headed out to the Witchita Mountains in Oklahoma after a breakfast of fried left over cornbread from the night before. There are buffalo, elk, long horn steer and deer in the park, along with prarie dogs. The first thing we saw was a giant longhorn steer just ambling up the road. We drove through and found two sets of buffalo herds. The first set was on the side of a hill, one cow came out in the road and stopped in front of the car. Then her calf came out to nurse. A bull wandered out as well and then [View Full Entry]

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From Matt - Have been back home for several days now, gone through lots of pictures and added over 50 to the pages where there were none before. If you are still interested I have added pics to the following blog entries : Catch Up; Amber Mountains; 3 Amigos...; Waiting in Joburg and Paris at last... . Vance and Rush have the best safari pics so there will be more animal pictures when I get them from Vance. This will probably be the last blog and I had a few things still to say about our last stop - Paris. Still [View Full Entry]

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I was walking back from work on Thursday. As usual, it was hot. As usual, it was humid. As usual, I was tired. As usual, I wasn’t getting shit. A usual evening in Texas. Unexpectedly, this mundane day was shattered by the roar of a pickup truck powering down the road. But this is Texas, where F-150’s, F-250’s all the way to F-750’s are commonplace. So, this event didn’t even register. It was still a regular, boring ass day in central Texas. What happened next, however, was completely unexpected. The truck slowed and started crawling at a snai [View Full Entry]

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That's not a lie, every word of that title is true. But first, before I arrived in Texas, we stopped in Santa Fe. It has quite distinct architecture, any new building that is built there has to be designed to a very strict code of how it should look as evident in the pictures. A few things of note there was the spiral staircase inside one of a church, it has no internal supports and is quite a feat of engineering. Also the amazing Spanish food that we had in the town square, there were vendors set up around the place [View Full Entry]

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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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