Continuing the series, I’ve never understood why other countries don’t have pretty fire trucks, as they do in the United States. I took this snap in western Louisiana
Month: November 2023
Lighthouse
OK, not a functioning lighthouse, but a lighthouse none-the-less, just north of Galveston, on the Texas Gulf Coast.
Coastal houses in Texas – 4
Continuing the series,
Coastal houses in Texas – 3
Continuing the series,
Coastal houses in Texas – 2
Continuing the series,
Breakfast of champions
At a Waffle House, somewhere in western Louisiana
Coastal houses in Texas
Texans may be a lot of things, but they ain’t stupid. If they build houses along the Gulf Coast, they build them like this!
Scanning in Louisiana
Louisiana is not exactly the high tech capital of the US. In fact, most people would say its downright “backwards.” Anyway, you can imagine my surprise when I found this very high-tech check-out counter at a gas station in very rural Louisiana. It works not by RFID or barcode scanning, but rather by image recognition:
Barbeque in Texas
It’s hard for Europeans to fathom how important barbeques are in Texas. Here is the aisle of a normal supermarket – NOT a do-it-yourself-center – and you can see how much space is devoted to this!
