New Mexico
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| El Paso Big Bend San Antonio Austin Galveston Houston |
Part of a cross-country road trip from Arizona to Florida.
El Paso
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| View into Mexico, across narrow Rio Grande |
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| View to downtown El Paso |
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| Border Crossing - outbound |
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| Border Crossing - inbound |
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| Lobby of glamorous Paso del Norte Hotel |
Big Bend National Park
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| An overcast, often drizzly, day |
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| Cliffs on Mexican side of Rio Grande |
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| Santa Elena Canyon |
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| Rio Grande at Santa Elena Canyon |
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| Rio Grande emerges from the narrow Santa Elena canyon |
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| View from US side of Santa Elena Canyon |
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| View down to sluggish, wadeable Rio Grande |
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| Sluggish brown Rio Grande, near Boquillas Canyon |
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| The Rio Grande enter Boquillas Canyon A hard-to-spot slot between cliffs |
Fort Stockton
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| Pecos County Courthouse |
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| Old Pecos County Jail (1883) |
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| Historic Fort Stockton (1868) |
Ozona
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| Ozona: Davy Crockett statue |
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| Crockett County Courthouse (1902) |
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| Pioneer Family memorial (1996) |
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| Imposing Ozona National Bank |
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| Crockett County school warning |
San Antonio
The Alamo
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| Alamo Church |
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| Patriotic visitors |
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| Enthusiastic fast talking tour guide |
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| James Bowie |
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| David Crockett |
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| William Barret Travis Drawing a famous line in the dirt |
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| Alamo Memorial |
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| San Fernando Cathedral 19th c extension of 18th c core. |
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| San Fernando Cathedral interior |
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| Supposed remains of Alamo heroes |
Mission San Jose
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| Fortified mission compound walls |
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| San Jose Mission Church |
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| San Jose Mission church interior |
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| Mill (rebuild of 1794 original) |
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| Grindstone, turned by water wheel below |
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| Horizontal waterwheel in cellar Powered by water from pool above |
Austin
Texas State Capitol
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| Rotunda |
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| Looking up... |
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| Looking down... |
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| Outside the House of Representatives Chamber |
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| Texas House of Representatives |
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| A vote about to close. |
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| Texas Senate |
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| Former State Treasury office |
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| Sam Houston |
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| Stephen F. Austin |
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| "The Surrender of Santa Anna" (1886) |
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| "David Crockett" (1889) |
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| COVID-19 Rapid Test tent Required for entry to Senate gallery |
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| Lego model of Texas State Capitol |
Texas State Capitol: Monuments and Memorials
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| Pioneers monument |
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| Texas African American History Memorial With an "Emancipation" central theme |
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| Ten Commandments monument |
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| (Confederate) Texas Rangers Monument |
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| "Heroes of the Alamo" monument |
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| "Heroes of the Alamao" detail |
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| Confederate War Dead memorial |
Austin Museums, etc.
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| Bullock Museum: Recovered Hull of La Belle (1686) |
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| Found in La Belle |
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| The Teax Cowboy: Myth building |
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| Goddess of Liberty From Texas State Capitol (1888) |
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| Texas Memorial Museum: The Texas Pterosaur Only a replica, but still very cool |
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| Texas Memorial Museum: The Texas Pterosaur With a forty foot wingspan |
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| Unexpected tent encampment Down by the riverfront |
Galveston
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| "Bishop's Palace" mansion |
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| Galveston Red Cross monument |
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| Galveston Seawall |
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| Galveston Seawall |
Moody Gardens: Rainforest Pyramid
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| Moody Gardens: Rainforest Pyramid |
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| Pyramid interior |
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| Green Tree Pythons |
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| Poison dart frog |
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| Komodo Dragon |
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Houston
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| Allen's Landing & Buffalo Bayou |
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| Buffalo Bayou |
Houston Space Center: Saturn V Temple
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| The Saturn V Temple |
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Houston Space Center
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| Apollo 17 Command Module |
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| Apollo 17 Command Module |
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| Mercury-9 capsule (1963) |
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| Gemini-5 (1965) |
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| Lunar lander (mockup) |
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| Orion capsule (mockup) |
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| Space Shuttle RS-25 engine (real) |
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| Skylab mockup |
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| Sklab mockup |
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| Lunar mockup |
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| Lunar basalt |
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| Lunar breccia |
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| Space Shuttle mockup on real 747 transporter |
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| Inside the space shuttle mockup |
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| Space shuttle controls (in mockup) |
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| A recovered Falcon-9 first stage |
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| The legs fold out for landing |
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| "Grid fins" at top fold out to stabilize landing |
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