A bit of a cranky day thanks to the Brazilian. But we headed downtown to an eerily quiet Houston, but had a wander around nonetheless. After we felt we had sen a suitable amount of the city (seems like a nice place, perhaps better on a friday or saturday though!) we drove to a shooting range. Here Donna had a go shooting a glock, whilst I took my antigun principles and sat and read about men killing each other with swords in Game of Thrones instead. Apparently...

Up and Skyped the parentals before setting off towards Houston. We were determined to see a ghost town and thought we were in luck when a sign appeared on the highway. However, when we got there it was a mock up of a ghost town that looked like something from a horror film, down to the handwritten signs and slight feeling you were beingwatched from afar. Avoiding Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2013, we gave it a miss and headed back on to the highway. Our hostel in H...

Texas was freezing. We weren't prepared for that! A nap was needed to recover from the cold, and just slightly the night before. Yes we woke up and had a nap straight away. Lush. Wheb we did surface we attempted to do some sight seeing - we managed the State Capitol, before the cold got too much and we headed to Five Guys Burgers for a hangover cure. Fittest burger ever. It was then back to the hostel for some New Orleans planning, but were soon drawn into a ga...

We got up and headed into San Antonio and parked up near the Alamo. Here we learnt about the siege when the Americans in the then Mexican owned Texas wanted independence due to land being taken from them and prices being hiked up. Mexicans didn't like this and came after them. Travis drew a line in the sand and asked all those who wanted to stay to step over it. All but one did, David Crocket included. s*** went down and the Texans lost. But the Mexican general g...

This turned out to be a random but successful say of exploring. We saw on our fold out map that there was a meteor crater on the outskirts of Odessa which we felt needed exploring. It wasn't quite the deep crater I had in mind (that's what comes from 1000s of years of dirt filling it in apparently) but the diameter of it was impressive, as were the parts you could see had folded back on themselves as the impact had hit limestone. We were warned to stay on the pa...