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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Chairboy on November 05, 2006, 05:03:41 PM
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I'll be flying to Houston, TX on Tuesday and will be there on biz until Friday morning. Anything interesting to do there? I'm not interested in bars, but I'll be staying downtown.
Other than walking around calling everyone 'JR' for some reason, I'm drawing a blank.
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Battleship Texas
San Jacinto Battleground
Lone Star Flight Museum
NASA
Galveston Island/Moody Gardens
Great food (food, again!!!)
What are you interested in? I am off Tues - Fri so if you need a guide let me know.
You flying into Bush, Hobby or Ellington?
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johnson space center was kewl when i was there a decade ago.
you might get celebrity treatment there too...
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Chairboy,
I'm in Houston this week also. If you would like to get together for a look at the San Jacinto battlefield and or the Texas BB I could meet you there.
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Even with Battleship Texas, San Jacinto battlefield and Johnson Space Center handy...you will still be in Houston.:(
Follow the rules, keep to yourself and do what the HPD tell you. You might get parole.
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go tanker surf the ship channel
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click (http://www.killsometime.com/Video/video.asp?ID=515)
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Originally posted by storch
go tanker surf the ship channel
Conditions have to be right :( Low tide & just a little wind.
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Mav, Diablo, thanks for the offer! I don't know if I'll be able to visit many of the day sites, Friday morning will be my only time to go to places that are only open during normal biz hours. I'll have internet access in my hotel, so I'll drop in here when I get into town.
I'll actually be visiting Johnson Space Center on a future biz trip, they're one of my clients, so I might save the space museum for another trip.
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Regarding tanker surfing, how else do you think I'm GETTING there? Wahooo!
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Chairboy,
We'll be heading out Friday morning towards San Antonio then further West. :(
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Finished my first day of business in town, nice place. Very clean and attractive city, but I'm a bit fazed about the flatness of the landscape, and the number of refineries and oil derricks is.... impressive.
I arrived at my hotel, and they honest to goodness didn't have a room for me. They were super apologetic and taxies me to another hotel over by Reliant stadium that I think was actually built out of the 1970s (as in, the decade itself was load bearing and it had screeching elevators and screaming ice machines added for effect). They sent me back into town for my meeting with a town car which was pretty nice, and then it was business. We breaked for lunch in the building, and the cafeteria has quite a view. It's on the 13th floor of one of Exxon's buildings and has two story tall windows wrapped around so you can see all of downtown. We spent much of lunch admiring the little cranes that dangle the unfortunate window washers off the sides of the skyscrapers.
When I checked into my hotel again, they recognized me, apologized again, and gave me a very nice room. They even sent me a fruit basket with a letter, it was excellent. I'll stay here again, but I'll call that morning to make sure there's a room (it's the Crowne Plaza, check it out).
After work, I was ready to head out to the BB Texas because my clock said I had a couple hours (until I realized I was looking at a PST clock, whoops). So the evening was mostly just working on a presentatin (Death by powerpoint!) for tomorrow and lounging about. Doesn't seem like this will be much of a social visit to the town, everything interesting closes at 5.
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13th floor?
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I think college station isn't too far away:D
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Originally posted by Yknurd
13th floor?
I'm pretty sure it was the 13th. I guess it's not a hotel or casino....