We spot our first Buc-ee’s. 🦫
16 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
Just outside Houston, in Baytown, we spot our first Buc-ee’s. It’s a gas station chain which operates many gas stations mainly in Texas.
Outside, there are 100 (yes, 100) gas pumps. Once inside,Leggi altro
Buc-ee’s brisket 🥩🔥
16 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
We try the famous Buc-ee’s brisket. Simply delicious.
Brisket is a cut of beef taken from the cow’s chest. It’s usually smoked, braised, and then slow-cooked. Every time a piece comes out ofLeggi altro
We are in Huston, Texas!
16 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
We’re in Houston, Texas, and we’re welcomed by a man on horseback in the middle of the street! 🐎🤠
Non solo fast food!
16 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ 🌙 29 °C
To escape the summer heat, after dinner we decide to try an ice cream shop.
We’re surprised by the quality, it was really good, and very similar to Italian ice cream.
Houston, however, has a bigLeggi altro
The Space Center Houston 🚀🛰️
17 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
If you visit Houston, a stop at the Space Center Houston is a must.
It’s located about half an hour from the city and is very large, packed with models, explanations, and simulators.
Inside the Space Center Houston!
17 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 35 °C
The museum is really beautiful, interesting, and interactive.
There are many vehicles and spacesuits, as well as various photos, videos, and moon landing memorabilia.
What’s curious is that theLeggi altro
The main attraction: the space toilet 🚽
17 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 35 °C
Inside the museum there is an area that shows the life of astronauts aboard the International Space Station in zero gravity.
There are examples of the freeze-dried food eaten by both Russian andLeggi altro
The Saturn V and Space Shuttle Tour🚀🌕
17 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 35 °C
At regular intervals, a shuttle departs from the museum to show the outdoor areas and takes you to a huge hangar housing the Saturn V.
The Saturn V was the historic rocket used for the ApolloLeggi altro
Freeze-dried ice cream🍨
17 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 35 °C
Inside the museum there is a shop where you can buy various gadgets — all incredibly expensive!
Among the gadgets, there is freeze-dried ice cream eaten by astronauts in the space.
It’s aLeggi altro
A free car wash 🚗💦
17 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 35 °C
In Houston, we were offered a free car wash at a brand-new, fully automated car wash.
The most curious thing is that while you’re in the wash tunnel, images are projected onto the car’sLeggi altro
The street art of Houston🎨
17 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
Houston is famous for its huge, colorful murals, symbolizing the city’s vibrant atmosphere and local culture.
Many organizations fund these works to promote culture and to enhance and revitalizeLeggi altro
No, we weren’t arrested!🚓
17 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
In downtown Houston, at the headquarters of the police, there’s a museum dedicated to the city’s police force.
Weapons, uniforms, motorcycles, and even a helicopter, all telling the story of theLeggi altro
Houston: the biggest city in Texas!
17 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
Even though the capital is Austin, Houston is the largest and most populous city, home to over 2.5 million people. The city is also one of the most important economic centers in the U.S., especiallyLeggi altro
Weed for animals
17 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
In a store in Houston, we saw cannabis for pets for the first time, an interesting business idea!
Houston combo: Whataburger, Chipotle, In-N-Out
17 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ 🌙 30 °C
Texas is famous for its local fast-food chains, so we had to try them all!
- Starting with Whataburger. Honestly a bit disappointing, nothing more, nothing less than a McDonald’s. But the Coca-ColaLeggi altro
The Trump burger: not the usual fast food!
17 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ 🌙 30 °C
Houston is home to the only Trump Burger in the world, a Trump-themed fast food.
At the entrance, banners support Trump, and the menu features burgers like the “Ivanka Grilled” or “Trump TowerLeggi altro
New Buc-ee’s, new high-calorie menu ☕🍩
18 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
Breakfast at Buc-ee’s has become part of our travel routine.
What’s better than starting the day with a medium coffee (which is an extra-large in Europe) and a glazed cinnamon roll topped withLeggi altro
Arriving in Dallas!
18 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 36 °C
We arrive in Dallas, the 3rd-largest city in Texas by population (after Houston and San Antonio), famous above all for being the city where John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated.
The American Airlines Center of Dallas
18 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 35 °C
The American Airlines Center is a modern and iconic arena hosting the basketball games of the Dallas Mavericks and the hockey games of the Dallas Stars, as well as concerts and live events.
In frontLeggi altro
Walking among the skyscrapers of Dallas
18 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ ⛅ 36 °C
Like other Texan cities, Dallas is full of glass-and-steel skyscrapers towering over the downtown streets. Despite the scorching heat, we take a walk through the city center.
The site of Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas
18 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ ⛅ 36 °C
From the 6th floor of the building, on November 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy.
After his death, Lyndon Johnson became president, whose library/museum we would visit in Austin aLeggi altro
Fort Worth: like being in the Wild West 🤠
18 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 38 °C
The city of Dallas borders Fort Worth, but the downtown areas of the two cities couldn’t be more different.
We step into downtown Fort Worth and it feels like jumping back in time. Hat shops, cows,Leggi altro
The symbolic animal of Texas: the Longhorn🐂
18 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 38 °C
A short distance from the parking lot is the Fort Worth Livestock Market, the historic cattle market where Far West ranchers used to bring their animals to be sold.
In front of it we see a TexasLeggi altro
The John Wayne museum
18 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 38 °C
In Fort Worth, on a street parallel to the Livestock Market, there’s a small museum dedicated to John Wayne, the legendary American actor from the early 1900s who is an icon of Western cinema.
He isLeggi altro
The biggest honky tonk in the world!
18 agosto 2025, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 38 °C
We visit the largest honky-tonk in the world. It’s a typical Southern U.S. saloon/bar where live music is played, and people can dance, eat and drink.
The place is really HUGE, but that day atLeggi altro