Blogs from Houston, Texas, United States, North America - page 5

Geo: 29.7605, -95.3698... read more

Maggie and I are exploring south Texas and we are just finishing up our visit to Houston. The weather is hot and humid, but there is air conditioning everywhere, so we have not been uncomfortable. It is a bit of a surprise, though, every time I go outside and am hit with the wave of heat. Highlights of our trip include going to Galveston (less than an hour drive from Houston and located right on the Gulf of Mexico). We took a ferry from Galveston Island to Port Bolivar and enjoyed seeing the bird life, dolphins, and large ships plying the waters to get to the ports of Houston and Galveston. (See photo of Maggie with ferry in background.) Another day we stopped in at a rather unique museum, the National Funeral Museum. It is surprisingly ... read more

HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM The problem was whether we were impressed or not with the Space Center Houston after our first two hours. We first, as advised while the weather was cooperating, took a 90 minute tram ride into the secure, gated NASA compound. Don't get us wrong, we enjoyed the ride, especially the first stop for a short inside tour of the original Houston command centre that directed all Apollo missions. Albeit, our tour was the blue collar version, viewing the command centre through a glass partition, looking on with jealousy at the family of four, who were organized and rich enough to have booked their $90 per person personalized tour 3 months ago, and who were inside the actual control room touching the monitors and dials and famous red telephone (Apollo 13). The ... read more

Walk on the endless beach in Biloxi, very romantic. Then the Interstate 10 , not so romantic all the way to The Big Easy. Louisiana seems to be a long elevated causeway with swamp underneath and on either side. Think there's gators down there? Drove the strip in New Orleans, Bourbon street was bigger and more interesting than I had envisioned. Kathy we t looking for beads! The Interstate was concrete panels and the Cooper was a hater at 75 mph. We did come across the best welcome center yet with historical info, photographs , a video presentation , artifacts, some corny ,oh a free coffee. Some great signs we saw were. " ya ya Crawdads" maybe that was a night club? " if you haven't eaten Lafayette you dont know gumbo" this says it all ... read more

Geo: 29.7605, -95.3698Family outing to the Art Car Museum in Houston. Thanks, Susan and Steve !... read more