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3 May 2016
We had a light breakfast of oats, cup-mandarins and waffle at the guest house before setting o ff around 1000 to walk into the French Quarter. It took about 45 minutes through some nice houses in various states of disrepair and gentrification. Arriving into Bourbon St, I thought it was just sleazy. And that was […]
2 May 2016
Getting going We woke earlier today out of necessity and felt better for it. We ate lightly, finished packing and set off for the Houston (Johnson) Space Centre. It was about a 50 minute drive taking the outer ring road but Google Maps suggested that was the fastest way. We got there about 1000. The […]
1 May 2016
We had a slow start. We set off by car late morning to the Hobby Aiport area where Kim said there was an aviation museum. He even had an address but when we go there, there was no museum. We had a light lunch at Taco Bell where we used to internet to find out […]
30 April 2016
Above: With family in Brenham. We woke after 0800 feeling awful despite having more than my usual hours of sleep. It was 0100 in New Zealand, which explained a lot. We swanned downstairs to have a reasonably good breakfast of oats (yes, kinda unprocessed food in USA!), toast and a waffle washed down with plenty […]
14 September 2013
Today was more of the same … shopping, eating and meeting up with crew friends after checking out of the hotel at 1100. We headed to the airport after 1800 from the Holiday Inn Express where we had returned our rental car. The check-in area was deserted. The flight was rather full but not completely […]
13 September 2013
Above: Dinner at Redondo Pier. Our hotel bathroom window looks out at the flightpath for LA Airport. It’s quite amazing to see big jets like the A380 coming in to land while taking care of business. I wonder if there’s a curfew for the airport as we didn’t hear any aircraft noise through the night. […]
12 September 2013
We woke at 0600 to take the bus to the airport for our 0910 flight to London Heathrow. That kind of wake up time isn’t normally an issue for me but having had sleep-ins for the last few days, it was harder. We had two pleasant surprises in a row. The first was finding a […]
21 August 2011
Above: Colour of the water looks good but it wasn’t a good day. We had planned on doing two dives today with Seahawk Divers. But as a sweetener for our failed sighting of whale-sharks yesterday, they offered either a repeat excursion or a complimentary dive. When we turned up in the morning, the weather was still […]
20 August 2011
Above: Not a very successful day. Swimming or snorkelling with the whale-sharks is one of the most highly-rated adventures in Isla Mujeres. We reported at 0800 to Sea Hawk dive centre and as soon as they had a confirmed location for the sharks (by radio from a spotter craft), we set off. It was a 40km […]
19 August 2011
Having had a good run with the ADO buses in Mexico, we were rather surprised that our final ride, from Merida to Cancun was 2 hours later than the scheduled time of 0925. The bus had originated in Mexico City some 24 hours ago and it must have had various delays along the way. We […]