5th Nov “Houston, we’ve had a problem here …….”

Everyone we spoke to said “Houston has traffic” and they were right.  Fortunately we didn’t have too much of a problem but we had to drive through the centre of Houston, on the interstate, between 15.45 and 17.15 hrs and hence we came across “The Traffic”!

 

We had set off in the morning over to Galveston by the ferry and on to the Space Centre at Houston.  We spent most of the day learning about the Space Centre, in the company of about 100 Japanese tourists (who just kept on talking through all the guides’ commentary).  We took the tour bus and sat in on a couple of Live Lectures and learnt that everything is recycled in space, including wee.  The Space Centre was particularly geared up to educate children (boring for adults) we thought the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida was much more interesting.

 

After leaving Houston we set off for our overnight stay in a state park (Stephen F Austin) a journey of about 60 miles.

As it was getting dark we heard a commotion in the trees behind us, we found out in the morning that we had parked next to the trees that the Turkey Vultures roosted in. There were also deer that wandered around the site.