Tuesday 3 April 2012

One week to go

Well, we've got a bit of a US road trip planned.  Just one week to go.  
Final route is agreed and set in jello.

Some planned highlights:
  1. Mission Control, Houston
  2. Singin' some Glen Campbell at Galveston
  3. 2.5GW Nuclear Power Station at Elmaton, Texas - well, I've never seen one
  4. USS Lexington 888ft Aircraft Carrier, Corpus Christi
  5. The Gulf of Mexico
  6. B1 Bombers, F16s and other noisy things at Wings Over South Texas air show, Kingsville, Texas
  7. Remembering the Alamo at San Antonio
  8. Texas firing range range with a choice of machine guns.  It's Texas, after all
  9. Luckenbach, Texas (population, 2)
  10. Texas Bluebonnets
  11. Dallas and the Grassy Knoll
  12. Various air force, army and transport/car museums
  13. 4 laps of the Texas NASCAR circuit in a 600HP Chev
  14. Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico
  15. UFO spotting at Roswell, New Mexico
  16. Cadillac Ranch, Amarillo, Texas Panhandle
  17. Route 66
  18. 8000ft cinder volcano at Capulin
  19. Pikes Peak Cog Railway - 14,000ft+  elevation 
  20. The Rockies
  21. Vail, Colorado
  22. Boot Hill, Dodge City, Kansas
  23. Tornados in the rear-vision mirror, Kansas
  24. Tom Petty, live at Wichita, Kansas
  25. Jesse Jame's Bank and Daniel Boone's place, Missouri
  26. Mississippi River from the top of the Gateway Arch, St Louis
  27. Steam up the Mississippi in the Mark Twain Riverboat
  28. Photographing a Bald Eagle 
  29. Lanesboro - Amish Country
  30. Buddy Guy's Legends Bar, Chicago
  31. The mighty Tucker Torpedo - classic 1940s vintage car, ahead of its time
  32. Willis Tower, Chicago.  1454 ft.
  33. Detroit, Motor City
  34. SR71 Blackbird at the Air Zoo, Michigan
  35. Sample a bit of Canada on the other side of Erie
  36. Niagara Falls 



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