Didn’t have a lot of time in Houston, but hit a couple of highlights. We drove from the hotel in Southeast Texas (a new Home2Suites – part of the Hilton chain – nice place, sort of a Hampton-level Suites hotel) to Bush Intercontinental Airport passing several of the oil refineries along the Houston Shipchannel. Brought… Continue reading Day #1 – Houston, Tx (part 2)

We started the trip by flying from RDU to Houston. Why Houston? When planning the trip, we tried to minimize flight time and keep the costs manageable. Our daughter Heather helped plan flights (more on the joys of traveling with adult children later) and we found that direct flights to Auckland, NZ were available from… Continue reading Day #1 – Houston, TX