Blogs from Texas, United States, North America - page 256

Okay, so we were originally going to head out last Monday but we had ourselves a little incident and reason to pause. Teresa sprained her ankle in a freak post lunch accident at Irving's local Furr's Cafeteria. Despite the bump in the road (or hole in the sidewalk) we are back on track and ready to roll. On the bright side of things, we've had a week to lounge around Nancy's (my grandmother) house and enjoy the gazillion inch HDTV with more movie channels than you could ever hope for. Nothing like a little R&R to help us prep for the long journey ahead. We arrive in Tokyo Tuesday the 28th and will be in Japan until that Friday when we take off on a ferry to Beijing. We'll try to drop a line or 2 ... read more

After some wonderful shopping and days lounging by the super natural thermal pool, we left San Miguel with a bang. Our last night, Josh and a gang of 3 others really put on a spread of fajitas, homemade tortillas, wonderful local fruit and a variety of yummy drinks. We had a great week in San Miguel and would like to extend a special thanks to Tom, Proferia, Tony, Triny and Maria for all of their hospitality. We had an amazing time because of you!! After leaving San Miguel, we got on the freeway heading due North. Our sights were minimal because the insurance was due to run out the 16th. We did stay the night in Saltillo about 250km from the border. Besides the amazing amount of pigeons in their main square (one almost took a ... read more

Well, It's been a strange couple of weeks. We have finally made it to Dallas, Texas which is the end of our journey down the East Coast and through the Southern US after leaving Canada 41 days ago and travelling over 4,000 miles on Greyhound buses. We got to Kissimmee, near Orlando late one night only to find that Barbaras rucksack had not made it the whole way from Folrida City with us. The station was closed so we had to go on to where we were staying and call the next day to get it. It finally turned up two days later and so we had to put off going to any of the parks until we got it all sorted out. With that behind us we headed to Universal studios for the day. Its ... read more

Our plane leaves in 5 hours. I am so excited and so nervous at the same time. Its always wierd traveling to the unknown but thats whats exciting about it as well. David seems a little on edge this morning I guess I should have let him sleep in a little longer but hopefully by the time we get on the plane all will be well again. I cant believe I have a 9 hour flight ahead of me to Zurich Switzerland followed by a 9 hour train ride to Rome. I cant wait to see Switzerland and the georgeous glaciers and mountains. Its a winter wonerderland over there right now and a brisk 37 F degrees. Nothing I cant handle. Well I am about to shut my computer down so it can sleep for the ... read more

we arrived into dallas/fort worth last night....a town made famous by three things....JFK being shot, the TV show "Dallas" and of course....kelly clarkson :) vegas was great...i actually wasnt well for the last few days...just a cold or something maybe to much beer but it was still definitely an experience..one morning we woke to 2 guys being arrested right in front of our room...there was 4 police officers and the two guys had to put there hands on the bonnet just just in the tv show "cops"...we thought this was pretty good until only a few hours later three streets aways there was a police shootout....a guy in an apartment with all sorts of semi-automatic weapons firing at cops....the was 100 police there and the S.W.A.T. ...i guess it will come as no surprise to you ... read more