Everything is bigger in Texas.

I spend most of my first vacation day behind the wheel, driving from Houston to El Paso. After 1 bottle of water, 2 coffee, 2 hamburgers meals,  4 stops for gas, 6 granola bars, 12 hours of driving (and stopping to take 106 photos), 28 gallons of gas, 722 miles ............ and I'm still in Texas. El Paso is in a different time zone though, i.e. Mountain time.

For the Europeans that is about 106 liters of gas for 1228 kilometers. I don't think I will get the Al Gore award for this vacation.

My gps logger says that my average speed from my apartment to my hotel room was 53 mph. That's not to bad given the stops I made. No, I didn't break the speed limit. Shortly after San Antonio the speed limit is raised to 80 mph. I was surprised to see that s the fuel consumption increased about 20-25% just by increasing the speed from 70 mph to 80 mph.