Alright, so this one goes out to any space geeks among you: Guess what we saw two days ago in Houston?
Rockets, Apollo Mission control rooms and bits and pieces of the current space station with training astronauts on it. We did a tour of NASA and saw all this neat stuff and were told cool stories and facts by Joe and Brian at NASA. I almost skipped out on this one but am very glad I didn't. Coolest fact of the day: all the Apollo missions were controlled on less memory space than there is in a modern cell phone or mp3 player. What? Crazy....
We latter ate delicious curry and went out with Kim and Doug to her favorite bar, McGonigel's Mucky Duck, to catch the Belleville Outfit. We then got a drive to Austin from Kim, our fairy-bike-mother from Houston...
After we arrived last week, she invited us to stay an extra day. She offered to take Friday off to come drive us to Austin and take the opportunity to visit friends in the area over this week end. We love Kim and will miss her tons!!!!
So, we arrived at DeWayne Wilson's house. He lives here in Austin with his wife Deana and their daughter April. They have a beautiful, beautiful home and two beautiful dogs in the north end of Austin. They also cooked us a great (gluten free!) dinner of white bean and chicken chili with corn bread and last night we all watched a sweet movie in their home theater system. DeWayne and his family have been awesome and have showed us all around Austin including different cool neighborhoods, awesome mountains and running trails as well as some fantastic restaurants. The weather is amazing and sunny and Mare and I look forward to riding on through West Texas in a couple of days... Trish plans to fly down to Mexico on Tuesday and Elissar is flying back to Canada at the end of the week...
We will be checking out Austin's music scene tonight and will report back with details...
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Houston, we are doing just fine!
Welcome friends to Team Ontario bikes the USA.
Though this happens to come about a month into our trip, better late than never right? Okay, so a brief update on what has been going on thus far in 200 words or less.
Elissar, Mare, Trish and I hop on multiple Greyhound busses from Toronto to New Orleans. 49 hours after leaving Ottawa, we arrive without our bicycles. Argh!!!!! We hang out with a house full of students from Tulane who are just about the most relaxed and easy going people I have ever met. After a couple of days and many phone calls to various bus stations, courtesy of Mare, our bikes when they finally arrive. Tearful reunion at the Greyhound station including Micheal from Bicycle Micheals saving our asses by delivering parts to the bus station for us. (Thank you, thank you, thank you!) Eventually, we hit the road towards Baton Rouge.
Three days, a crazy biker, six flats, a broken spoke and a bent rim latter, we land at Ryan, Jesse and Seth's place in Baton Rouge... Yee haw, we love crawfish, rollo bollo's and Dave's bike shop/backyard secret lair of touring cyclists dreams come true! From Baton Rouge, we get driven out of town by Jesse while listening to Snoop Dog and begin cycling from there.
Here are five post-Baton Rouge awesome moments for all y'all:
1 Staying with Henry and Geralyn in Simmesport. Eating Geralyn's amazing, amazing southern cooking and having a history/geography lesson from Henry.
2 NOT staying in the campground site which was surrounded with caution tape, a live wire and a tin roof with a really sketchy bar/tavern right next door in Washington. Oh yeah, and it was before a thunderstorm...
3 A really really cute cabin in Eunice where we slept in bunk beds and cooked french toast in the morning.
4 A sweet, sweet lunch at a restauraunt called Simply Country in Moss Hill, Texas. After chatting up locals and allowing them to be privy to our funny Canadian accents, we were treated to lunch by Melvin! Amazing!
5 Getting picked up in Dayton by our lovely Floridian host here in Houston. Kim, an aerospace engineer who works here in Houston, stuck two bike racks onto her car, all our paniers in her trunk and all of us in the car and drove us from Dayton to her beautiful apartment where we are staying for a couple of days. We will likely catch some live music, awesome food and fun times with her before heading towards Austin.
Stay tuned for more adventures and pictures from Team Ontario as we move further west...
Though this happens to come about a month into our trip, better late than never right? Okay, so a brief update on what has been going on thus far in 200 words or less.
Elissar, Mare, Trish and I hop on multiple Greyhound busses from Toronto to New Orleans. 49 hours after leaving Ottawa, we arrive without our bicycles. Argh!!!!! We hang out with a house full of students from Tulane who are just about the most relaxed and easy going people I have ever met. After a couple of days and many phone calls to various bus stations, courtesy of Mare, our bikes when they finally arrive. Tearful reunion at the Greyhound station including Micheal from Bicycle Micheals saving our asses by delivering parts to the bus station for us. (Thank you, thank you, thank you!) Eventually, we hit the road towards Baton Rouge.
Three days, a crazy biker, six flats, a broken spoke and a bent rim latter, we land at Ryan, Jesse and Seth's place in Baton Rouge... Yee haw, we love crawfish, rollo bollo's and Dave's bike shop/backyard secret lair of touring cyclists dreams come true! From Baton Rouge, we get driven out of town by Jesse while listening to Snoop Dog and begin cycling from there.
Here are five post-Baton Rouge awesome moments for all y'all:
1 Staying with Henry and Geralyn in Simmesport. Eating Geralyn's amazing, amazing southern cooking and having a history/geography lesson from Henry.
2 NOT staying in the campground site which was surrounded with caution tape, a live wire and a tin roof with a really sketchy bar/tavern right next door in Washington. Oh yeah, and it was before a thunderstorm...
3 A really really cute cabin in Eunice where we slept in bunk beds and cooked french toast in the morning.
4 A sweet, sweet lunch at a restauraunt called Simply Country in Moss Hill, Texas. After chatting up locals and allowing them to be privy to our funny Canadian accents, we were treated to lunch by Melvin! Amazing!
5 Getting picked up in Dayton by our lovely Floridian host here in Houston. Kim, an aerospace engineer who works here in Houston, stuck two bike racks onto her car, all our paniers in her trunk and all of us in the car and drove us from Dayton to her beautiful apartment where we are staying for a couple of days. We will likely catch some live music, awesome food and fun times with her before heading towards Austin.
Stay tuned for more adventures and pictures from Team Ontario as we move further west...
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