Day 28 - Sunday, Sept 30 - Galveston, TX to Lafayette, LA

Starting mileage:  6799 Starting time: 9:30 am
Ending mileage: 7053 Ending time: 6:00 pm
Travel mileage:  254 Travel time: 8:30 hours

 Today was mostly visiting the Space Center Houston which has many exhibits about the US space program, both past and future plans. There are a number of rockets on display, including the largest, a Saturn V for the Apollo moon program. 

 It was also interesting to see a Space Shuttle on top of the Boeing 747 that was used to move it across the US from a landing site back to Cape Kennedy. This approach was proposed by a NASA engineer who was a model plane enthusiast and created and tested a model 747 with a Space Shuttle on top. 

 It is easy to see why Houston had such a problem with flooding during last year's hurricane with so much rain. It is absolutely flat with many houses just a few feet above lakes and bays. There is no place for the water to go quickly.

 Houston is a mix of pleasant residential areas and huge industrial areas with oil refineries and oil storage tanks.

 On the way to Louisiana we saw more rice fields and some sugar cane as well.

 We had a great seafood dinner at Don's Seafood in Lafayette. Carmen had a shrimp dinner with just about every imaginable type of shrimp: etouffee, fried, stuffed, gumbo, grilled and some others. I had shrimp etouffee over catfish that was really good.
Day 28 map
Space Shuttle on 747

Inside the Space Shuttle
Welcome to Louisiana

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