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To the left, Martin with his new shirt showing the places we
visited in the US. Martin's favorite gas station where he
bought his beers and favorite Jack Links
Teriyaki Beef Jerky for the road. |
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Martin made a picture of his bag safely tucked away.
A green house in the outskirts of Houston. |
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Nice highway constructions. Martin loves them.
Beautiful, curved overpass. |
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The American flag and MacDonald's. Two in
separate symbols ot the USA. American with some decent
suspenders. Martin lost his and want to buy a pair while in the USA. |
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The Carefree Inn chain. Martin
and Astrid with his favorite, the Jack
Links Teriyaki Beef Jerky |
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At the
Natural Bridge
Caverns, deep down in the Hearth of Texas. Here is the air vent tower for
the caves. Down into the caves. |
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The entrance to the caves. The
Natural Bridge that gave the names to the caves is seen here. |
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Solid rock formation. Drip
stones are all over the place. It took some million years to make them.
Roughly 50 years for each centimeter to grow. |
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Stalagmites are plentiful in the cave complex.
The bewitching interior of the caves. |
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Martin in the biggest hall of them all.
They are very impressive. |
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Purgatory Cave at the very bottom of the cave
complex, some 64 meters below the surface. A big pillar of
dripstone is seen here. |
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They are really massive these dripstones. Guess
how many years it takes to make one? Our hotel in San
Antonio, the
EMILY MORGAN HOTEL, a nice,
central hotel with a lousy breakfast according to Norwegian standards. |
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Our tour guide holding up the sign showing we
are belonging to his group. The twisted symbol of San
Antonio in the center of the town. |
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The River Walk. Really nice set up.
The sight-seeing boats on the river. |
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Nice bridges. And nice
architecture. |
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More people entering the boats.
The bridges are plentiful along side the river walk. |
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Beautiful trees are all along the side of the
river banks. Martin at the helm of the boat he sat in. |
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Built in front of a new hotel.
An island in the middle of the river. |
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A small overflow in the river system that is
heavily regulated to prevent floods. The wedding island. A
popular place to get married. |
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The skyline is actually very cute and nice.
Another fancy architectural building of which there are many of in this
beautiful town. |
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A special bridge of the town.
More nice buildigns. |
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The five Tacho bells of San Antonio.
There are plenty of trees along the side of the river walk. |
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The octagonal building of San Antonio, finished
3 months before the financial meltdown in 1929. Our friendly
tour guide knew his job. |
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Full frontal left into the high-rise as
prerequisite for getting a building permission. Here seen
from the side. |
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Another combo block of flats and offices.
Nice trees along the waterfront. |
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The boat is back. Nice block of
flats. |
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Nice clockwork. Nice trees. |
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The oldest restaurant along the river walk.
The Marriott hotel in the middle of town. |
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A female boat driver. They know their way
around. Trip finished and the lot of us are on the way back.
In total, we are 99 Norwegians. |
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Elisabeth, another trip participant on this
tour. She did the tour in January 2009 as well. The hat that
Astrid wants to buy. Tanya didn't like it. |
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Our hotel at night. Martin
enjoying a beer with red stuff made of cherries. |
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Martin and Astrid enjoying a beer.
A fancy horse-drawn carriage in the streets of San Antonio. |
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