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