After an extremely sweltering night we today visited the very clean and ecclectically designed city of Houston, Texas. The road system was bizarre to say the least and even our navigational device failed to keep up with the many looping thoroughfares! Even the trams ran through street-long lakes! (see my video) However the architecture was very impressive and Cadet Mark selected the Downtown Aquarium for a visit. This was a very good choice as the displays were...

After a comfortable night in an Abilene hotel, we crossed another of earth's time zones today and drove into Texas where we had another change of plan. Cadet Ashley found out about a particular cycle shop he was interested in inspecting so we diverted from our planned destination of Dallas and headed south for Austin instead. Sure enough the shop was indeed bursting at the seams with various triathlon nick-nacks that got Cadet Ashley rather excited and Cadet Mar...