in Houston...

[jay]

Crowded flight, no upgrade, and some guy moved up and simply took the vacant middle seat next to me (I was in an exit row). I made sure to give him as little room as civilly possible. And a couple of accidental elbows.

Rental car... I had a full-size 2-door reserved, usually a Mustang (this was Hertz), nonsmoking, no foreign cars specified. They gave me... a Toyota Solara that smelled of tobacco. Plus it only had a 4-cylinder engine... looked sporty, but couldn't take it seriously with an econobox engine. I wondered if Hertz had somehow learned that I was a friend of dawnd and akienm's... I went back and got a Taurus with a sunroof.

Looks like a piece of highway history is disappearing... "NASA Road 1", which is the Texas state highway that connects I-45 to JSC to Galveston Bay, is being renamed "NASA Parkway" and given some generic highway number. Maybe this is truly trivial, but somehow it feels like one more of those 1960s Space Age artifacts is vanishing.

Now... working on my poster for Thursday night, IMs with people at home, while indulging in comfort food (ribs, corn, fried okra...) that I brought into my hotel room.

Comments

Get the visitor pass

[vokzal.livejournal.com]

It'll save you money and direct you to the top attractions. :>

Don't rent a bike and fall over the Seawall, Pat will be sad.

Re: Get the visitor pass

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

I rented a bike the last time I went to Galveston. But did *not* fall over the seawall. I went there on a day trip with a sweetie (whose parents have dispersed to Lake Conroe and Lufkin, but grew up in Katy), and had much fun being an at actually warm beach (though kept wondering where the waves were).

Re: Get the visitor pass

[vokzal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, for all the complaints from the locals about the water being dirty (it may have gotten worse in the years since I've been gone), I really miss having warm water to play in.