Monthly Archives: December 2006

Click for album After leaving Carlsbad, we crossed back into Texas, driving through El Paso to get to Las Cruces for the night. The drive through the Guadalupe Mountains was simply breath-taking, and the national park there is well worth … Continue reading →

Click for album Way back in the Permian period, over 230 million years ago, the part of Pangea around what is now Carlsbad, New Mexico, was the basin of the Delaware Sea. The accreting remains of sponges, algæ, and other … Continue reading →

The Spanish missions in San Antonio, TX are gorgeous. We saw The Alamo, as well as Misión Concepción, Misión San José, and Misión Espada. It was interesting, though, that the information panels seemed to be very much pro-mission: they portrayed … Continue reading →

On our way through the sprawl that is Houston, TX, we decided to take a detour to visit the Johnson Space Center. The official visitors center is called Space Center Houston and gets mixed reviews in my book. On the … Continue reading →