RoadTrip D10 New Orleans

Day 10, 12/31 Fisherman's Cove! Best Oysters!

[大推] 紐澳良便宜的oyster bar!! 只有當地人才會去的店 Fisherman's Cove
一打開好的生蠔才六塊！ 比French Quarter那些觀光客去的店便宜一半（約12塊）。

Sleeping in the best hotel we have in this trip, we waked up late this morning. In order to keep our budget, we usually choose the cheap motel like Super 8. The quality of these inexpensive one is variable, but most of them are old building and furniture, sometimes with bad smell. I bade a 3 start hotel at Priceline.com and it's almost the same price as those cheap hotels. What a excellent deal!



We went to a local oyster bar "Fisherman's Cove", a restaurant that only local people visit, for our brunch.

The outside of Fisherman's cove. It's a basically a fish market with a oyster bar on the side. Surprisingly, it was full of people at 11:45 on a Wednesday morning. We wait for a while, but it's worthy. Because their oysters are so good, very fresh and inexpensive, only $6 a dozen. (The price of the oyster bar at French Quarter is around $12) We also try the famous crayfish and darken fish. The darken fish is so so. But the oysters are really yummy, almost bring me to the heaven.







They have website here: Fisherman's Cove Seafood and they ship to your door.

RoadTrip D8-9 Galveston and NASA 休士頓太空中心

Day 8-9, 12/29-30 Galveston and NASA



We drove all the way south to Galveston to see the Golf of Mexico. Alex, Kathleen's cousin came with us. He went to the university in Dallas and now in vacation.



I remember when I first met my Loco family, they ask me have you seen the ocean. That was a very interesting question cause I'm from a island. With in one or two hours, you can reach the sea shore and put your feet into the sea water. After staying in US in 2006, I finally realized that if you live in a inland city, you may not see easy to see the ocean.

The birds like Cheetos very much.




I don't remember the last time I go to the beach, it must be more than 6 month. Today, I touch the water of Gulf of Mexico. Maybe next time, I will go to the other side to visit Mexico.



After feeding the sea birds, we went to the NASA Johnson Space Center in south Houston. NASA is dream of every kids. I think many people want to become an astronaut when they are little. That's true! I feel the same way. But when I grow up, the dream seemed away from me for a long time. This time, I really pay attention to all the exhibition in NASA. Read the mission history of every space shuttle and I even tough the rock from the moon! I'm really really excited about this moment. Feel like the dream come true.



Rock from the moon


Titan V Rocket, VERY BIG!!!


NASA總共有六艘太空船，分別是 原型機、挑戰者號 Challenger、發現號 Discovery、亞特蘭提斯號 Atlantis、奮進號 Endeavours、哥倫比亞號 Columbia六艘。除了原型機沒有上過太空以外，其他都有去過。挑戰者號(1986)跟哥倫比亞號(2003)各在一次任務中爆炸。



Now I know NASA has space missions every month and there is a international space station fly around the earth 16 times a day. The scientists doing research up there was also amazing to me.

They are going to launch three space shuttles on February and May from Florida. Maybe we will have a chance to see that.

Astronaut's food. We bought a ice cream flavor. It taste very special, creamy like the ice cream, but in room temperature.

RoadTrip D3-7 Time in Dallas 達拉斯夢

Day 3-6, 12/25-28 Pleno

Kathleen's uncle, Michael, live in Dallas. He is a guy really know how to enjoy the life. He has three labrotors and walk them every morning in a park near by. Kathleen and I go with him once. The fresh air in the morning is really good. But the big dogs are really powerful and hard to control.










Check out the pictures below. My goodness, all these stuff are only in my dream.

Big house with swim pool.


Canon 5D camera


A Hummer H2!!!


A Harley Davidson!!!



Incredible..... I want stay here....

RoadTrip D2 William J. Clinton Presidential Library, Little Rock, AR 克林頓總統圖書館

Day 2, 12/24 Memphis, TN to Dallas, TX

On our way to Dallas, we took the way in Arkansas, a state full of natural sources and park. We don't have time for the wild life this time. So I decided to stop by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock to gain some knowledge of history.



Bill Clinton is the 42th president of US from 1993-2001. My only memory about him is his sexual scandal. 也就是傳聞中克林頓"速懶趴"的事件。People here seems concentrate more on what he has done to the country and he & his wife are still pretty active in the politics. If this happened in the conservative Taiwan, he may gone forever.

The library is basically his memorial hall and museum introducing the world history of the 90'. Ticket is 7 dollars, not much, but why a library need ticket? The three-floor building lie on the riverside with beautiful scenery. You can see his Lincoln limousine on the first floor. On the second, was demonstrated the affairs happened in 93-01 and a room decorated exactly the same to his office.







The third floor keeps many of his collection gave by other country of people. I saw the calligraphy from Kim Dae Jung, president of Korea, and bicycle from Lance Armstrong, the greatest road racing cyclist ever. Besides, a room decorated as the white house office was there. But I still can stop thinking Miss Monica Lewinsky..