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North America » United States » Texas » Nacogdoches September 17th 2022

The Old Town Rig Down is a new small festival held at Festival Park and the nearby Nacogdoches Square. Note: This whole area was blocked off for the safety of the many people on foot. I started my walk at the Nacogdoches Square where they had many nice semi trucks without their trailers. The many food vendors were found on the square. The downtown Visitors Center was open with employees giving out good information of Nacogdoches and Texas history; and has many historic artifacts. The Visitors Center has good clean restrooms open to the public. I walked downhill to Festival Park to attend the festival. There were many beautiful semi trucks (with their trailers) lined up for viewing. Many of the semi owners were there to chat about their big rigs. They had a very good ... read more
Nacogdoches Square
Nacogdoches Square
Nacogdoches Square

North America » United States » Texas August 30th 2022

Monday/Tuesday Arrived in Houston late afternoon and Ubered to our Super 8 Motel near the Motorcycle shop where our bikes have been stored for 3 years. This motel/gas/station/diner is a truck stop ..hundreds of huge rigs fuelling up & parked in the truck park (see the photo) .Tuesday morning went to Tejas Motorsports - the shop where the bikes had been stored for 3 years courtesy of Bob Binns the owner (thanks Bob). The workshop had carried out all the work requested, service & new tyres and the bikes were ready to ride. We all have the latest Garmin Zumo XT GPSs, so we removed the gas tanks so we could wire these in and then carried out a few other minor adjustments and fitted our luggage. After 3 hours we were on the road- all ... read more
Bike Preps
Bike Preparation
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North America » United States » Texas » Houston August 8th 2022

Today is effectively the last day of our holiday, although in reality it's all a bit of a write-off as we need to be at the airport by 1.00pm. I took the opportunity for one last photography outing. Unfortunately, on the one occasion I picked a location that would not include the actual sunrise, it was when there was an amazing sunrise, but in completely the opposite direction to the cityscape that I was aiming to photograph. Some photos of the sunrise behind a building site (which was actually already at work) were not really what I was after. The early start at the building site seemed typical. Even when I left at 5.15am, the road into Houston was already heaving. People obviously start work very early here. I took my photos and then drove back ... read more
Fuel Price
George Bush Airport
#1 US Airport

North America » United States » Texas » Fort Worth August 7th 2022

I was up early again and went to a similar location to yesterday for some photographs of the Dallas skyline. I was not the only one today as I walked across to a different bridge to see what that looked like and there were four other photographers there with their tripods. This particular bridge had a tramline going a across it, alongside the road. A tram came along, stopped and blew its horn at one of the fellow photographers who was apparently too close to the line - he didn't think he was and I would agree with him. Anyway, bloody photographers getting in everyone's way. We were leaving Dallas today and ultimately heading back to Houston to catch our flight home. First, however, we thought we would pop across to Fort Worth and go to ... read more
Downtown Dallas
Fort Worth Stock Yards
Buffalo Bill

North America » United States » Texas » Dallas August 6th 2022

I got up early for some photography. I was hoping for a location where there is some water reflecting the skyline, however the river in question was almost non-existent. Apparently, there has not been a drop of rain here for months and they are on the verge of a severe drought. Strangely, the news this morning is continuing to report on horrific flooding in Kentucky, which is not that far (by US standards) from here. They also mentioned a huge amount of rain in Death Valley, which I imagine is very unusual. We had wondered why this hotel was quite expensive compared to the others we have stayed in and now we have found out. There is a three day conference taking place for independent beauty consultants, so it is extremely busy. We also heard on ... read more
Dallas Sunrise
Street Crosses
Corner Window

North America » United States » Texas » Dallas August 5th 2022

Our hotel is really unusual and looks like it's a converted warehouse or factory of some sort. Our room has an extremely high ceiling and a huge support pillar in the middle. Character is what I would call it, although I'm not so sure about the concrete floor - I'm sure there's carpet that would have been in keeping with the character. We are planning to do the Dallas tourist circuit tomorrow, so I just went for a casual walk in the morning whilst my wife chilled by the pool. The Downtown area is actually quite compact, so it is reasonably easy to cover it all on foot. I walked along Main Street, which effectively runs west to east through the centre until I got to the West End Historic District. This is the location of ... read more
Ewing Family Tree
Thanksgiving Chapel
Dallas Eyeball

North America » United States » Texas » Austin August 4th 2022

Today it was sadly time to move on from San Antonio, which has to be our favourite place so far this holiday - sorry Houston and New Orleans. We were heading to Dallas today, but as Austin is on the route so we through we would stop there on the way. Austin is the capital of Texas and is the site of the Texas State Capitol. We found it very easily and were also easily (and surprisingly) able to park on a street right by it. To make things even better, some kind soul had left two hours remaining on the parking meter, which was the perfect amount of time for us. Thank you whoever you are. After a quick visit to the Visitors' Center (well I suppose that's what it's for), we walked across to ... read more
Battle of The Alamo
Capitol Floor
Texan Capitol

North America » United States » Texas » San Antonio August 3rd 2022

The Tower of the Americas is the second highest free standing tower in the USA, with the first being the Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas and the third is the Space Needle in Seattle, both of which we have visited (see and respectively). Sorry America, but they are all outdone by the CN Tower in Canada (see ). The tower and a lot of the city centre regeneration, including the Riverwalk, seems to be linked to the 1968 World Fair, which is frequently mentioned. If I am not mistaken, it was a similar World Fair that gave rise to the Space Needle in Seattle. Perhaps we need the 2023 World Fair in our home town so that the whole world can see what Hemel Hempstead has to offer (and I cringe whilst I'm writing this)!? I ... read more
Colourful Riverwalk
Star Gazer
The Tower of The Americas

North America » United States » Texas » San Antonio August 2nd 2022

I am clearly still partially on UK time as I was awake early so walked out to The Alamo which was only five minutes away and was illuminated at night. It is surprising what a difference moving 500 miles to the west makes as sunrise was significantly later than it had been in New Orleans. I got talking to the Alamo Ranger who was outside the site even at that time in the morning. It seems that the UK and the USA were actually on the same side in the conflict here. Whilst that is always the case now, the British are usually the bad guys in American history (see ). Apparently there were people from 12 different countries killed here. We are booked on an audio tour tomorrow, so we will find out all about ... read more
The Riverwalk
Riverside Bells
Texan Merchandise

North America » United States » Texas » San Antonio August 1st 2022

There was a laundry near the hotel and we had considered getting some washing done to make sure that we had enough clean clothes to last until the end of the holiday. Unusually (or maybe not for New Orleans) the laundry had a voodoo theme. After consideration, we decided that it was not worth the risk of cursed laundry (oh, and we didn't really have time given the long journey that we had ahead). The estimate for that journey was seven and three quarter hours plus breaks, so we decided to not had hang-around and we were on the road by 9.00am, which is early by our standards. The Interstate 10 was just a couple of miles from our hotel and then that would take us to within a few miles of our destination in San ... read more
The Voodoo Laundry
543 Miles
Interstate 10




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