The mineral collection at the Houston Science and Natural History Museum is by far the most impressive one I have ever seen. It is not only the quantity of the specimens, but the quality. It was very hard to shoot some of them, so while some of the pictures are beautiful, they still don’t do [...]
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While in Houston the Wings over Houston Air Show was scheduled. We bought “Eagle Squadron” tickets (which meant food and shade through the day). It was worth the extra price for the shade, there wasn’t a cloud in the sky that day and we still got burned. There were a wide variety of events going [...]
We took a route through San Antonio back from Austin to Houston. We stopped by the El Mercado and had lunch and walked around a bit before continuing on.
After a long break where work got very busy, I’m back and posting again. Now…back to my Texas trip…. One of my visits was to Innerspace Caverns. These are caverns that were discovered during a mjaor highway constructon project. They’d been sealed for thousands of years until core samples found them. There’s several tours avaialble [...]
