Houston (Texas)

OK so Houston is obviously a big place but if you get driven to the downtown, it's basically a huge complex of gleaming office buildings and office parks. Yeah, it's kind of the epitome of Texas in bourgie form.

Also just an interesting fact, totally unrelated, Houston is full of Vietnamese people- it's because of the shrimp fishing industry that goes out of Galveston.

You can totally crash at the Doubletree hotel downtown for free. Go around it, there is a park in the back where there are these gnomes buried increasingly deeply. (don't sweat if you don't see the gnomes) Anyways in the back of the Doubletree, where the park is, there is a concrete staircase. Go up the staircase, that door is often unlocked- its where they have conferences and weddings, and you can just walk in and sleep in an unused conference room, or, if you wanna make sure you don't get kicked out, you can sleep in the stairwell where they never go. A conferance room is nicer but they may be just about to use that room and you'll be discovered. That's what happened to us but we woulda been fine if we had just found a better conference room or slept in the stairway, we kinda were hanging out at the wedding and they started to get suspicious.

isin: Texas