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PROLOGUE God opens my eyes to see the world. I set my mind for life and peace in feeling his grace and love in the Southern United States. This will be a trip with God, knowing him better and serve him better with my whole faith. Thank you lord, for giving me the ability to draw, made me so unique from other people. I decide to walk with you and record how you work for the city and people’s life by my pen. This will be a trip only you can make me see through how people integrate with nature, see how vulnerable and brave people are under GOD’s glory. I will talk with you, write to you, think of you,every day and night. GOD, be with me, in this safe and fantastic trip. You are the center of my life, you are BIG. Amen.
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Area- 704 km2 Pop. - 912,791
Area- 900 km2 Pop. - 384,320
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SAN ANTONIO
Area- 1,205.4 km2 Pop. - 1,436,697
HOUSTON
Area- 1,625.2 km2 Pop. - 2.099.451
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Every summer night, hundreds of people gather to see the world's largest urban bat colony emerge from under the Congress Avenue Bridge in downtown Austin, Texas. They ingest enormous quantities of insects and save American farmers between $3.7 billion and $54 billion a year. Thank a bat for your low cost and pesticide free produce.
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In the Museum Reach, 1.3 miles of overgrown and inaccessible River bottom was transformed into a vast extension of the existing River Walk. There are 25 new River access points along 3.4 miles of new walkways, along with four rest stop/overlook locations and numerous public art installations.
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