Travel Blogging

Have spent the last three days in Houston, at a professional meeting in a downtown hotel. A nice city for a conference, decent restaurants and attractive architecture. Many of the people at the meeting were Texans and it once again reinforced my opinion that most Texans are very nice people, congenial folk.

Now I'm at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport - yes, the title is a bit grandiose, very Texas. Looking out the window at planes of the now-combined fleets of Continental and United is very strange. They adopted the livery - colors and tail art - of Continental but eventually all the planes will carry the United name. An interesting way to make employees of both airlines feel like they are still valued.

This far south spring has already arrived, it was shirt-sleeve weather today in Houston, very pleasant. Later in the year it will be very humid and hot, not at all pleasant to those of us from the dry states. BTW, don't forget to set your clocks and watches ahead tonight when you go to bed. Daylight savings time is upon us, beginning tomorrow.