Texas, USA

B. Hippo looks out over the plains of West Texas. There sure is a lot of nothing out here!

Everything is bigger in Texas. The state capitol in Austin is the largest in the country, larger even than the US Capitol in Washington DC!

Wow, there sure is a lot of Texas out there. On the way to Carlsbad, we drove through the flat and empty part of West Texas on US-180 and drove by the Guadalupe Mountains. After re-entering Texas on US-285 we drove through Pecos and met up with Interstate 10 in a town called Fort Stockton for a long drive through a lot of wind turbines and cattle. Upon reaching Austin, we visited the state capitol, and later visited friends in College Station and Houston. If there's anything to take from such a whirlwind tour of the state, it's that its BIG. Really really big. And diverse. There's a big difference between regions, and outlooks, within this state. Austin and College Station may as well be in different countries. Then again, for a state that was once it's own country, this seems somehow appropriate.