Published on
October 30, 2007 in
USA 2007.
We had some great steaks at Outback Steak House in Houston. Downtown Houston really is deserted, at least on Sundays as in our case.
 
So we just walked around the skyscrapers and had a coffee at Starbucks. Soon we hit the road again to get to San Antonio.
We found a Czech Village on the way, near Weimar:
San Antonio was great: lively market and good Mexican restaurants. Do you know Alamo the movie?—we`ve been at the place where the Texan heroes gave their lives instead of surrendering to the Centralists.
 
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At noon we hit the road again, right through the desert to El Paso, where right now we are having breakfast in a motel.
 
Published on
October 28, 2007 in
USA 2007.
Greetings from a motel in Houston! Today we have been attacked by a vicious turtle, Johannes could fight that evil breed fortunately.
 
We crossed the border to Texas today after staying one night in Lafayette. So at least they are still prould of GWB here:
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There was a little fire next to the road:
 
The beach near Galveston was great, nobody bathing but you could drive directly to the water—some people enjoyed the sun on the bed of their pick-up trucks.
Fast food so far: <forgot name @ airport>, Mc Donalds, Subway, Burger King, Taco Bells. We are looking for a good steak house this evening, tomorrow we`ll visit Houston downtown area and head to San Antonio, from where we`ll have a long section (~700 miles) through the desert to El Paso near the Mexican border. Our car is a Mazda 5 by the way:
Published on
October 25, 2007 in
USA 2007.
Kaiserwetter in New Orleans, both of us drowned, what a pitty =)
  
New Orleans is the home of tobasco and hot sauces (bought myself a bottle of Dave`s insanity =)
Typical Jackson Square touristy shot:
Great live Blues music while we enjoyed a cafe au lait in the Cafe du monde near Mississippi river:
 
Big night out:
From New Orleans to Los Angeles: an adventurous road trip lies ahead!
Taking off this Wednesday from Munich (thank you Betti for letting us stay at your place!) and heading to New Orleans, we plan to finally arrive in Los Angeles at Friday, Nov 9th. Some hundred miles to go.
Let me give you a rough schedule of our trip, staring at the end: In L.A. we’ll visit a NBA game of Lakers vs. Timberwolves and meet some locals (Regina & her husband, Silvia & Kathi). In between there’ll be a mixture of cities like Las Vegas, San Francisco, Dallas and landscapes like Monument Valley, national parks, mountains and deserts.
First of all we’ll spend some days in New Orleans, using Jazz and fresh Mississippi water to get accustomed to the American way of life.
I’m going to keep you up to date with our traveling advances through this blog and an invention called flickr.
 
 
 
 
