Personal Narrative: My Trip To Houston, Texas

When ever you’re traveling, you dont really have an adventure if you dont try new things and go to new places then youre not having an adventure. I am going to share some of my favorite activities that I have tried when I went traveling

Three weeks ago, Houston experienced one of the largest and costliest natural disasters in American history. The storm impacted all, regardless of socioeconomic or immigration status. Thousands of people were under water and many became homeless. Harvey produced a record 49 inches of rain since it came ashore. It caused many unexpected destructions along with death of some people.

“Welcome to Texas.” That’s what I read as I gazed out the backseat window. My family and I were heading down to Brownsville, Texas for a vacation. Brownsville is an awesome city, not only is it right along the Gulf of Mexico but it’s also right on the border of Texas. As we got off the interstate and into the actual state, I remember looking out the window and thinking how much different — in a good way — Texas was from Illinois. Although we were staying in Brownsville, we would end up spending a lot of time in Port Isabel and South Padre Island, and even going into Mexico. Because of vacations like these ones, I think taking vacations are one of the best ways to take a break but they will never replace a home.

I do apologize for the confusion; the picture was just silly (my new shirt says, “Home is where the dog is”). Conformation was auto corrected to confirmation by my phone, November 9th is a Conformation event, located in Decatur, Bob and I are hoping to attend to observe and I am waiting for Diane to respond with the best time for me to call.

than visit a city I had not been to. I had to take a trip to Texas for my nephew’s high school graduation, so I decided to come a few days earlier to visit Austin. I chose Austin because I heard it was a very vegan-friendly city and I was also curious to experience a blue city in a red state. As a teenager, I attended high school in San Antonio, Texas for a couple of years and despised it, therefore, I hoped Austin would alter my perspective of Texas.

2015 marks the first year that my life ventured beyond Dallas County. I was born in the suburbs of Rowlett, Texas 19 years ago. I lived in Rowlett with my mom, dad and sister until we moved just across town to Rockwall when I was 11. I still live in Rockwall to this day with my family and two dogs, Mack, a bulldog and Bruno, a boxer— they are my pride and joy.

This summer, I went to Kansas City with Noah from the Bible story “Noah’s Arc.” We road tripped to Kansas City to go to the museums, eat barbeque, and go to Worlds of Fun. The car ride was two hours long and very enjoyable. We talked about how he fit all the pairs of animals in his huge boat, and how he had to shave his beard so the paparazzi would stop following him around. Noah, being an elderly male and not open to change, was very irritable about the paparazzi and his newly shaven face. Thankfully, music cheered him up. We listened to our favorite 60s and 70s rock songs the whole car ride and about how incredible it was of Noah to put all his faith in God when he told him to build an arc. We talked about how much courage he needed in order to actually embark on that adventure for God. Noah acted like it was no big deal and things like that happen all the time. I knew this was not true and continued to talk about his triumph in amazement.

Throughout my life I was always excited about attending college. Whether is was because of independence or the dorm rooms; I still don’t know. Ironically, I’m living at home, unemployed, and still, can’t drive. I am reiterating in my head the fictional character, Tai, from the 1995 movie, “Clueless” condescendingly telling Cher Horowitz, “You’re a virgin who can’t drive.” First off, it’s important to point out that University of Houston - Downtown was not my first choice!

I’m from Texas but I do not ride horses to school. I’m a big city girl with a little bit of country in her. Meeting new people has always been exciting and nerve racking, I love friendships and value them so much. I came to Pepperdine over the summer for a camp and met many staff members and students. If you have not been on campus before I can give you a mini tour. I would not like you to get lost and if you have been on campus well even better we get to explore places we both haven’t been.

It was 9:00 AM on a Tuesday when I woke up to the sound of my alarm clock. Yesterday afternoon my sister and I had packed everything we were going to need for our trip to Kansas City, Missouri, we were super excited about it. We were going to see our favorite band in concert for the second time that day! Once we were both wide-awake we could hardly contain our screams of excitement. We had everything planned out, the time we were going to arrive at our hotel and what we were going to do once we got there. Although, we never thought things could go so out of plan. It takes exactly 5 hours and 8 minutes from my house to Arrowhead Stadium and we left at 9:30 AM. Since the concert started at 7:00 PM we would have arrived there around 2:45 PM and

On March 23rd. 2015, I was told, by my family, that we were going to be heading to Atlanta, Georgia, for a petite vacation. “Pack enough clothes for three days. Make sure you pack your swimming trunks.”, was the words yelled from my father’s mouth towards my brother and I. So, we packed our clothes; undergarments, jeans, shorts, socks, shoes. Next, we packed the necessities; toothbrush, toothpaste, washcloth, deodorant, etc, all squeezing into my black backpack. I put on my clothes that I planned to wear to get there in, after I took a shower and groomed myself thoroughly, as always. After I completed getting ready, I took a seat on the couch to rest myself, while everyone gets themselves ready. After some time had passed,my brother had brought

First ,I am leaving NYC to go to San Francisco because I am in search of some gold

There is a saying, “The night belongs to the day it follows”. That being said it was beautiful day followed by an even more glorious night. It was about three-thirty in the a.m. on that Friday night the summer of 1993. I witnessed a high-speed police chase and by some strange twist of fate, I believe I am now the primary suspect. Now I am pissing in my pants and, I am wondering why I got myself into this situation?

The windows on the rusty station wagon began to shake, turning the music up to hide the laughter from the back seat. It came from Liam and Maggie, the love birds. Khloe and I sat in the front, I drove while she uses the worn out GPS. We made a good team. This was a beginning of a long road trip filled with amusing jokes and lots of laughs. We are headed to Arizona for the weekend to stay at my grandma's house. She only lives there in the winter to get away from the frost and snowy weather up in Minnesota. Liam, Maggie, Khloe and I just graduated from high school this spring and decided to go on a road trip together. We have all been really good friends all four years of school. We only have two more hours until we arrive in Phoenix, Arizona. If one more person complains about being hungry or asks “If we are there yet” I’m going to lose it.

“Are we there yet, i'm starting to get hungry,” i said as we were getting off the highway. I was starting to get impatient because i had already been in the car for 3 and a half hours and my butt was starting to get numb. We pasted the biggest mall i have ever seen and it was my birthday time with my grandma, i was turning 16. My grandma was driving to Kansas City,Kansas, and hadn't seen her in since Christmas. It was the end of July and i had to call off everyday just to be able to go, but i was still really happy to be able to see her. and i was really excited to spend it with her because she is