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The Fantasy Tour of Texas

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Shakesthecoffecan:
I would like nothing better than to be travelling somewhere, anywhere, right now. Some place not so cold, maybe that used to be part of Mexico. Yeah, Texas, I would like to experence it first hand. I have only the memory of driving thru the panhandle in 1982 and didn't see much because I had misplaced my shades. On the return trip we had a flat tire in Dalheart and I have been to the Houston Airport a few times, and DFW, but I have never really experenced the place.

So I will plan out a little trip in my head, and since it is in my head I can do whatever I want, take as long as I want. Now, where to begin? Humm, how about Galveston.....

DAY ONE



Right now it is 74 deg. F, 23 deg. C, in Galveston, I could fly into Houston, rent a car and drive the hour to the shore of the Golfo de Mexico and find a nice place on the beach, or nearby, and spend a couple of days chilling' by the water with a good book. Currently I am reading a tell all autobiography by Edmund White and he don't leave much out.

In the afternoons I could probably still view some of last years hurricane damage, look for any signs of the house where Victor Neal once lived with his mother when he was an organist at the Queen Theater. Do the pub crawl at night and generally unwind from real life. Try to decide the important things like, do I want to go north to Beaumont and the area where Janis Joplin grew up, or do I want to go south to Corpus Christi?

Lynne:
Sounds like a fun trip, Truman.  May I come along?  I'll be wanting to stop in the Small Towns, listen to music, and such...

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_pvmEH7LJE[/youtube]

Shakesthecoffecan:
Oh gawd I do too, the more I think about it it will take a couple of months to see all these things. Sure enough, maybe we need a bigger car. I rented a subcompact. (Not a Yaris)

Here is where I stayed in Galveston:

http://www.sellinggalveston.com/index.php?n=3&s=20&rental_id=220

Lynne:
That looks like a lovely house Truman!  I love the beach view.  Since money's [not] the point, let's rent whatever you like!   :-* :-*  Where do we go from Galveston?

Shakesthecoffecan:
Day Three: I want to head out to Beaumont and Port Arthur, but the problem I see is how to get there, go all the way back to Houston and take I-10? No, there is a ferry that will take us from Galveston to Port Bolivar, then on Rt. 87 we could go north to 124 then north to the town of Winnie, then on to I-10 to Beaumont.

Winnie, Texas has one of the world' highest boradcasting towers and each October has a Rice Festival.



In Beaumont it looks like Crockett Street is the place to go hang out in the evening. Like the Dixie Dance Hall

http://www.crockettstreet.com/Dixie/

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