right on bro!

Yesterday morning I had breakfast at the Waffle House in Beaumont, Texas. I’ve never been to Waffle House before, and it was on my list of places to go. It’s like Denny’s but way better. I think I’m going to eat there at least one more time on my trip.

After breakfast, I drove to Houston and went to the Johnson Space Center. I didn’t have much time before they closed, so I missed all of the films, but I did manage to take the tram tour through the place. Got to see the old Mission Control center from the Apollo days, some X-38 prototypes, and the astronaut training center - the latter which is a huge warehouse full of life-size replicas of the space shuttle, the Russian Soyuz capsule, the robotic arm (CANADIARM2) on the International Space Station, and more.

It took me quite a long time to get out of Houston, because I left Space Center right around rush hour. Houston has the most ridiculous toll road I’ve ever seen - the Sam Houston Tollway. It’s a nice highway, it’s just that I had to stop five times to pay tolls along the way. Even though I had to pay, traffic was jammed up all around the west side of Houston, and it was even worse on the 10.

Finally things on the 10 calmed down in the outskirts. I stopped in Sealy to eat at Hinze’s BBQ, which was an okay roadside restaurant. Made it to San Antonio, which is where I am now. I ended up doing some laundry tonight - it was too late to go out, and for some reason, I was out of clean clothes even though I should still have some. Maybe I left some stuff scattered around the United States or something.

Yesterday’s Space Center photos.

Hey April - thanks for the recommendations!

Oh wow, I just looked at the publishing date. It’s Friday already?