galveston
Yes,
Texas has a coastline as well--- the 'Third Coast', the Gulf of Mexico.
It has been said that Texas has any kind of terrain you could want; mountains,
plains, desert, forest, coast, tropics. It's true. Texas is a BIG place.
There's an old saying here, it came from the Depression days when folks
were traveling from the east to California looking for work, and they had
to drive across this enormous state. It went something like this: "The
Sun has rose, the Sun has set, an' we is still in Texas yet." From Texarkana
to El Paso is over 800 miles--- and it's over 900 miles from Brownsville
to Texline, near the corner of New Mexico and Oklahoma. Texas is easily
big enough to be its own country, and you are probably aware of the fact
that from 1836 to 1845 it actually was.
Galveston
is an island city, south of Houston. The pirate
Jean Lafitte maintained a base here, (and if I am not mistaken died here),
and a minor naval engagement of the Civil War was fought off the coast
of Galveston. And, being a coastal city, it has been subjected to hurricanes,
the one in 1900 having destroyed the city and killed 6,000 people. As far
as I know, nothing this exciting has happened in Galveston since. There
is some beautiful architecture-----
and
palm trees to go along with it.
Much
of it is Victorian-style.
Along
the seawall, there are numerous restaurants and bars to enjoy. When you
are down there, stop in at the 'Poop Deck'--- it's a biker bar with a veranda
giving a tremendous view of the ocean. If Marie is still tending bar there,
tell her I said Hi.
I
think this guy is saying, "Uh-oh, here comes another hurricane..."
All text and photographs
1997,
Randal P. Dean
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