houston

In a remarkable city filled with remarkable sights this is perhaps the most, well, remarkable. Tucked away in a grimy warehouse area just outside of the gleaming Oz-like downtown, you turn the corner, go over the railroad tracks near the bayou, pass several rusting warehouses and there they are...

I am on my way to The Bayou City for a couple of days! I lived in Houston from about 1980 to 1985.  It was (and I presume still is) a fantastic city!  I remember my days there of Gilley's Club (and the first mechanical bull), Lone Star beer, Goode Time Barbecue, Kathy Whitmire (first female mayor), Bum Phillips and his Houston Oilers, ballgames in the Houston Astrodome, trail rides, my first daugh