Corpus Christi

We're stopped for the night at a rest stop halfway between Corpus Christi and San Antonio, and we have wifi! We left Corpus Christi about 5:30 and were planning on getting close to Austin before shutting down for the night. However, Mother Nature had different ideas. The 78 miles I drove from CC to this rest area was difficult and tiring because of the wind. It's blowing so hard, even the birds are walking.

We had a good time in Corpus Christi. Friday afternoon when we arrived at our WalMart campground, we took the Tracker down to the waterfront to check things out. We were going to take a sunset cruise around the harbor, but it was too windy to take the boat out. So we had a delicious seafood dinner at Landry's (don't know if it is Tom Landry's restaurant) on the waterfront. We found our way back to our moho and hit the hay.

Today, Saturday, March 20, we had a big IHOP breakfast before going to the South Texas Botanical Gardens. It was somewhat disappointing because we were too early in the season. Not many flowers in bloom yet. We then drove across the bay to the Lexington aircraft carrier of WWII fame and spent a couple hours touring it. VERY interesting. During our visit, heavy rain and wind moved in, and it got much cooler. As I write this at about 8:30 cst, it is about 46 degrees.

Not far from the Lexington is the Texas State Aquarium. We stood in a long line in the blowing rain till finally we got in. It was not the largest or most interesting aquarium we have seen, but it was nice and had lots of stuff for kids.

After leaving the aquarium, we were on our way back to the moho to leave when I decided to go out on Padre Island. It is the longest undeveloped barrier island in the world. Not much to see this time of the year except marshland and, of course the Gulf of Mexico. We stopped at the information center and looked around and as we were about to leave, Barb stuck her head in a door marked Auditorium. From inside came a voice yelling 'Come on in and have hot dogs and Frito pie'. A group called CCA (Coastline Conservation Association) was having a cleanup day and had put on more food than they could consume, so they were inviting everyone in. Of course, loving Fritos and not knowing what a Frito pie was, I was more than willing to find out. It was REALLY good as were the all beef Texas hot dogs. That got Barb off the hook for cooking supper.

That brings us to where we are now. I was going to go through more pics to post, but our days are so busy and long, we usually are very tired when we finally get back to the moho for the night. I apologize for not getting more pics up, but that is the reason. Hopefully soon we can take a day off from our busy schedule and get some work done.

Till then, you'll have to visualize what we see from the written word.

Ron & Barb