Texas tour

Winter break was spent in a Texas tour. Temps in Texas ranged from 20F to 70F in the last 2 winter weeks of Dec and sometimes in the duration of the same day.

Inspite of standardization across USA, these are the things that stand out about Texas.

• Not enough greenery. Nope. No big trees, just shrubs. Very much brown color-tone like the Millenial Bangalore.
• No rivers or ponds or brooks. Very few man-made ones were there.
• No recycle bins anywhere - not airports , offices, apartments. Shocking !
• Plethora of Indian restaurants in every city. Each with different choices within Indian cuisine, I had forgotten they exist. Indo-chinese, Chennai style, Kerala style, Andhra mess, South buffet,.... 
• Birds on electric lines. Hitchcockian pics in the bottom of this post.

Houston

NASA Johnson Space Center.
A tour of the facility in tram which ends in Rocket park. And some fun Space setup in the main building. This is the only thing to do in Houston apart from a trip to downtown.

Water Wall Park near Galleria in downtown Houston. Its a thing of beauty to see so much water falling from such a large height. And I guess this man-made waterfall counts in a place with no natural waterfalls, I think. Everyone's eyes need this view.

Houston Downtown

Galveston

Beachtown an hour drive from Houston.

San Antonio

Tower of Americas

Riverwalk: No real river. Manmade canal works for Riverwalk.

San Antonio downtown - art district

Austin

State Capitol

 

State Park Trail

Graffiti park is an interesting place to go.

Austin downtown

Dallas

Downtown lit for the holidays

Birds

There were birds everywhere. Surprising for December.
Birds on electric lines, signals. And most shocking were these crowds in a Dallas mall parking.