Houston

This is a picture of downtown Houston (from the interstate, of course)

A little better picture of the downtown area. We didn't feel like fighting rush hour traffic to get a closer look.

More Texas

After our brief tour of Houston, we were back on our way.

When we got into mid-western Texas, the roads began cutting straight through bedrock.

These crazy Texans can drive 75!

In western Texas some of the desert-like features became apparent. Here multiple towering plateaus can be seen in the distance.

As you would expect, there are oil pumping stations everywhere in Texas.

San Antonio

We ventured into San Antonio to take a quick driving break. In the heart of San Antonio there's a house with chickens running around the front yard. I thought that was something that only went on in the south.

We hated driving in San Antonio, the drivers were rude and agressive. Road rage is an epidemic here, partially because of their crazy interstate system. In this photo we're driving on a split portion of I - 10. Without warning I - 10 split into high and low sections. The high section can be seen in the top right of the image.

No Man's Land

After San Antonio, we ventured into the most desolate place that we've been so far. There's nothing in southwest Texas... I mean nothing. We would go miles without seeing another car and hours between any hint of towns. Every once in a while there would be a random Stuckey's or gas station, but that's it.

The further west we got, the deeper the roads were cut into the bedrock.

This is also the place where we ran into cell phone blackout.

The plateaus here begin to show less signs of life and look more and more desert-like.

Another shot of the desert plateaus.

In the middle of nowhere, completely out of the blue, thousands of these monolithic windmills appeared. Every plateau north of us had hundreds of these windmills. It was truely an impressive sight.

Liz managed to capture this beautiful sunset before it dipped behind a distant hill.

In this photo we got fairly close to the windmills. You can get an idea as to the size of these structures if you look at their size in relation to the plateau they are on. I'm guessing they were at least 50 or 60 feet tall. Massive!