On our way round Houston en route for Galveston...heavy, scary traffic!
Houston skyline
First night, dinner on Pier 21 and then back to the Hotel Galvez
Galveston docks at night
Hotel Galvez at night
On the Gulf coast (not the golf course!)
On Friday, while Peter was at a meeting, I walked around the historic district, or some of it, looking at beautiful houses until I was lured into the Mosquito Cafe for lunch.
Strange dog statue
Historic home
Nice bit of planting
House with widow's walk - the gallery on the roof
from which the wife of a sea captain gazed
out to sea wondering if she was a widow or not?
On Saturday, our planned walk was curtailed because I had pulled a muscle in my back...no idea how! After a night spent writhing in discomfort we began Saturday with a trip to a pharmacy then had breakfast in a cafe and decided to take a long way round back to College Station to avoid the Houston nightmare.
We took the ferry to Port Bolivar where the Pelicans gathered to greet us
Pelicans
and then drove along a spit of land where all the houses are on stilts to avoid high water/flooding when the hurricanes blow. I wondered what it must be like to be on the top floor with a hurricane coming in and then realised that the roads are marked 'Hurricane Evacuation Route' so nobody stays around to see how much it shakes.
We saw some interesting things on our way back including a road that thought it was a roller coaster
and some real cowboys.
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