Posted on 06/27/2017 8:22:41 PM PDT by jonno
We are looking at vacation spots - is Houston recommended?
Let your oldest go see his friends and you all come here to Colorado. Plenty of great outdoor things for your 11 year old and adults to do. And you won’t cook or sweat to death. We have low humidity.
NASA is a great tour.
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After seeing the Houston official “rainbow” police car in a thread the other day. . .are you kidding?
Forget it...stay home.
If you just HAVE to go somewhere - go to Jellystone and see Yogi.
Six Flags in Houston is gone.
A lot to do and see in and around Houston, but like most places you need to be careful of the areas you go into. It is also very hot and humid.
Yeah, I love Colorado, too. Spent every summer for about a decade vacationing in Denver, with excursions to AZ, NM, NV. Came for the hiking and to observe wildlife. Friends with collecting licenses then mailed me some souvenirs (tiny lizards, which I adore). I got some great pictures of my hiking, with beautiful scenery and fabulous wildlife.
..if you are into sweating.
Consider the Battleship Texas, Seawolf Park, and the San Jacinto Monument. Also you can see a concrete hulled ship sunk out near Seawolf Park.
Good party (fishing) boats out of Galveston, some go out in deep water and others stay within state waters. You can catch and keep fish in international water where the same fish would be out of season in state waters. My son got a shark last time out.
I read an article in the Wall Street Journal years ago that said basically that Houston was unlivable without the invention of commercial air conditioning.
Houston is also where all the maggots from New Orleans were relocated to after Katrina.
I wouldn't consider going to Houston as a vacation. Far from it.
I live in Conroe, just north of Houston, as much as I like the Houston area for employment and cost of living, it would not be on my list of vacation spots.
I went to Great Dunes the first weekend in June. It was unbelievable.
Seriesly. LOL
Probably one of the few cities that can make New Orleans seem balmy and comfortable by comparison. People actually did survive there in the years before air conditioning but few know how they did it.
Nope, not in the summer. Save Houston for Fall or Spring...as in April or October.
That is, unless you are fond of mosquitos and saunas (which is what it feels like outside, whether you’re in the sun or shade, during summer).
It’s nowhere near Houston but the Pacific Northwest in the summer is truly heaven. Not humid, not particularlyl buggy...great rivers, lakes and mountains, Puget Sound and the San Juans...God’s Country!
Nice!
You would be welcome here. We need good people.
....Galveston has about the crappiest beach in the country and I would not go in the water there...
For beautiful beaches at a decent cost, it’s Panama City Beach. The beach is about 8 miles long, and it’s beautiful white sand and Caribbean crystal clear blue/green water. Get a condo on the beach. Or, if you like, Topsail Preserve State
Park or Grayton Beach State Park both have nice, fully furnished modern cabins for about $600.00 a week. They are about 5 minutes from the beach.
Just down the road is Destin. The whole Panhandle is very nice.
I used to live in Houston, and dont look at it as a vacation spot.
That’s in the San Luis Valley and next to some of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. Yes, the Great Sand Dunes are beautiful.
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