Texas is the only state I’ve been to in the US - I worked for the last 13 years of my working life for the UK Division of a plastics company based in Houston, their HQ was close to the Galleria, and I was there for a week-long conference most years. Had some great fun on those visits, the US crowd were always very hospitable and, once business was over, took us out to some great restaurants (and bars), to Minute Maid Park for baseball games, to the Rodeo, Johnson Space Centre, Kemah, Galveston at different times, and other places whose names I’ve now forgotten.

Mostly nice people, provided the subjects of religion and politics were avoided - still in contact with some of them more than ten years later.