Crossing state lines

We had changed our watches to Mountain Time from Central Time while passing through the desert, and yet, after 19 … More

The other half of Texas

I slept from San Antonio until Del Rio for about 170 miles. Sunrise was scheduled for 6:36am and the dining … More

The Sunset Limited route starts in New Orleans and ends in Los Angeles (or vice versa if you are travelling … More

Houston is often described as the place where the Southern US meets The West. As a starting point for my … More

Readers of this blog from its start may have noticed my interest in trains. In my last months in the … More

Through a friend I met one of the founders of the Playhouse Community Theatre in Houston. It is a charity … More

In a part of Houston, street names and the block numbers are indicated by mosaic laid into the kerbstones at intersections. … More

It is summer in the USA, which also means baseball season has started, which means I had to go and … More

This summer there is a James Turrell exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which is referred to as an … More

In my post ‘Shirts and Blouses’ I asserted that the variety of clothes styles available to women in a culture … More