50 States


Carlsbad, NM – Mile Marker 3,603

We have actually made it a bit further than planned today – moving from Texas into New Mexico we gained an hour again so we decided to use it and go on to Carlsbad, New Mexico. It is about 90 miles north west of Pecos – our original intended stop […]


Big Bend NP, TX – Mile Marker 3,259

After a disturbed night – a “girls weekend” or similar were staying in the room across the hall from us and after loudly leaving to go out about 8.30pm, came back with a few too many under the belt about 2am – 10 times as loaded ! – the weather […]


San Antonio, TX – Mile Marker 2,857

Texas really is a big place ! Along the interstates, all the exits are marked by the mileage from border to border. So, for example, exit 5 would be 5 miles from the border, starting from the west. As we are travelling east to west, the first exits we get […]


Houston, TX – Mile Marker 2,628 1

Today has pretty much been spent visiting NASA headquarters – the Johnson Space Center, Houston.  This is “mission control” for the US space program and having visited Cape Canaveral  in Florida during our visit in 2008 to see the launch site, we were really keen to see mission control. Johnson […]


Houston, TX – Mile Marker 2,599

Our wake up call came as expected this morning – the garbage truck followed by the bells – so it gave us a good early start for our drive into Texas today. We hit the interstate and luckily for us we were going out of town. The traffic heading in […]