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Casey and I returned to Houston Saturday morning. She took me to what appeared to be a very normal-looking neighborhood. And then I saw the rocket ship trailer: After that I was pretty sure it wouldn't be a normal neighborhood. I was right, because...
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I hung around Galveston during the day. It's a long, thin island with tons of beachfront. I wandered around to the pier and saw the beautiful old oil tankers and barges and cruise ships at the dock, and the fishing trawlers dragging nets back and...
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Steve went to work at 6:00 a.m., so I got an early start towards Galveston, Texas. I drove through Houston along the way, and decided to stop. Houston has an interesting and unique skyline that reminds me of Legos. I stopped and found a cafe and got some...
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I finally left Austin and headed towards San Antonio, where I had found a place to stay through couchsurfing.org. I arrived pretty late and had a low-key night hanging out with Chris (my cs host) and his friend Russell. San Antonio was hot. I went downtown...
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I got up pretty early when smelled food cooking in the adjacent kitchen. I'd slept on Catherine's couch and everyone was up very early making breakfast. They're all doctors and med students, so it's programmed into their circuitry to wake...
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I stayed in Austin, writing and wandering around for much of the day. On 6th street I ran into this old hotel. I went to the Whole Foods store again to get some food and ran into Sy. Sy was born in India, but has lived in Texas for years working as an...
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The next morning I wandered around downtown, checking out 6th street with all the bars, restaurants, venues. It's always interesting to get oriented in a new city. It's like plunging into a novel or a movie set. You have certain ideas of how it...
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The next morning I made the short drive to Austin. Austin is known as the liberal heart of Texas, the music/art/intellectual heart of Texas, the coolest city in Texas, and other similar things. I drove there early and found a campsite at McKinley State...
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The cities of Dallas and Fort Worth sort of run into each other. They are often collectively referred to as Dallas/Fort Worth. Fort Worth is known as more of a 'cowboy' town, while Dallas is supposed to be more of a fast-paced business/oil money...
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I left El Paso in the morning with a bag of provisions that Ophelia had prepared for me. I took interstate 10 east, then merged onto interstate 20. I drove for 9 or 10 hours and stopped once, in Midland, Texas because the sign on the freeway said it was...
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After sweating all night inside my car at Walmart with windows down and bugs feasting on me, I drove to El Paso, Texas. It was hot there. Hot like you're not supposed to go outside between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Hot like my rubber sandals...
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