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I feel safer on a racetrack than I do
on Houston's freeways --A.J. Foyt, legendary race car driver from
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Houston, Texas |
explored & photographed by:
Shady for Weird
U.S., March 2005 So, we
explored the weirdness of the Houston area (Humble, Galveston, Beaumont,
etc) for the Weird Texas book, and though I can't say what the
places we explored were (top-secret for the book!), I can say
that we saw some pretty creepy and fantastic things... *grin* As
usual, I took some just-for-fun road trip shots along the way, and
here they are, for your viewing pleasure. As always our kitties came
with us on this trip, by now they are total road trip veterans... it's
so cute. |
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...there's Sabre, checking out the
road, much like he did in the
pic I shot on our Dallas trip, (but much bigger now)...
the lil guy curled up and slept for a lot of the way... and Bela
thought he was the King of the Road the entire drive... Sabre was
very fascinated by his 'twin' in the mirror outside, hahahaha... and
that's what it looked like from my POV, when Sabre was kicking it on
the floor between my feet, *meow!* |
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...as always, 'the Boys' hung
together through the trip, they are just the best of buds... and in
the hotel room, Bela found lots to occupy his attention, like trying
to figure out how to get to the cat food (it was in the cabinet
above the microwave)... and making faces at, and then attacking,
the 'other cat in the wall' (aka A MIRROR, lol)... and, whenever I
looked at the hallway outside of our hotel room, all I could think
was, 'redrum, redrum!'... heh (and it was a horrible hotel
btw, blech) |
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...my favorite part of the trip was
when we went to Galveston... we passed by the historic (and
supposedly haunted) old Ashton
Villa... it wasn't open when
we were there, in fact someone had reserved it for a wedding out in
the awesome gazebo
that day, so we only took a quick peek around the outside. But,
damnnnnn it was amazing! And there were a ton of incredible
old places like this all throughout Galveston... |
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Also, part of our explorations
through Galveston took us to the beach, and to a place called
Bolivar Peninsula, which we had to reach by ferry. Ferry! I
had never ridden a ferry before! Yay! It was soooo cool. We
drove our truck onto the ferry (which for me, was
really trippy) and then we went up these narrow stairs to the upper
deck. The views of the Gulf of Mexico and Galveston Bay were
stunning. I mean, stunning... |
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...huge seagulls and these
positively Prehistoric-looking giant pelicans were flying
all around us. It was great. Later we gathered seashells on a
beach on the peninsula, and I picked up live creepy-crawly
hermit crabs, oh yes I did! (see, prior to this experience I've
had a fear of touching any sort of crablike creature, lol)
Galveston was just a beautiful place. |
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...for some reason, we saw many
strange vehicles on this trip, like this awesomely weird
creature-car... the undie-and-pink-Statues-Of-Liberty covered
'pin-up' truck (check out the cool gas door thingy)... the crazy,
cosmic car with a, ummmm... big boo-bay on top with alien babies
crawling on it, omg... and the mural-adorned flaming hearse
complete with screaming skulls. Wow. We also saw a yellow
submarine on I-10, but that's a whole other story ;) |
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...our explorations also took
us to a few different cemeteries... I found this odd sight-
and old tree grown through an even older fence- in
one.... and this rather eerie statue of an entire family in
another. I love exploring old cemeteries. |
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...we saw so many great little things
here and there along the way... a gothy all-black bee plundering a
big, bright flower... a cool hot-pink-splashed bird-thing (w/craaaazy
eyes!) looking for tasty fare in some marshy reeds... a couple of
large seagulls (I think the one in the rear wanted to kill and eat
us)... the immense 'World's Largest Fire Hydrant' in Beaumont... and various shots from the road- lush green fields... stormy
skies... a Texas sunset (complete with semis, heh)...
And, check out the Full Moon pic I shot in
Houston during this trip here,
if you wanna. It was a good trip. Once again, a huge thanks to the
Marks, for the amazing opportunity... thanks guys- you rock.
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