Hot Texas
Also we had
a vacation during the 1998 summer and we visited Corpus Christi, Austin
and San Antonio in Texas state. It was very exciting trip! By that time
we had a new car and a 1 month old driver license. So, we took 2 weeks
off and decided to reach Atlantic ocean.
So we
drove from Las Cruces to Corpus
Christi whole day. At the beginning we had a small problem with police.
We were going 80mp/h with limit 70mp/h and this fact taxes police didn't
like. But we were lucky and Mike's just got a warning :)
Our route
was going through San Antonio where we need to change highway to proceed
further to Corpus Christi. It exited 3 times from the highway trying to
find the correct exit, finally we did it but it costed about 1.5 hour...
So, we arrive at Corpus
Christi Sunday evening and couldn't find a hotel with a available room.
So, we spent night in a terrible cheap hotel but the next day we moved
to a very cool and luxury hotel with swimming pool. What's Corpus Christ?
It's not big city at the Mexican bay coast on the south of Texas. It has
a small downtown and nice promenade by the ocean. It has an island nearby
where all the luxury hotels and apartments are. Several days we were swimming
in the ocean that was very very warm and had a lot of waves :) The water
is very salty there. The weather was so ot and humid that you should be
either inside the building or swim in the ocean or pool. We visited Lexington
(very big military ship since World War II), now it's a museum. It was
interesting to research so big ship, we even visited it twice. Also we
visited Aquarium (pretty), Museum of Science and History with Columbus's
ships there. These ships are models of Columbus fleet and they were built
in Spain and then they crossed the Atlantic ocean and were put in Corpus
Christi. BTW, there are a lot of seafood restaurants in the city.
After
6 days there we moved to Austin , the capital of Texas state. And again
Mike had problem with police , this time we just entered the highway at
70mp/h and police stopped us. We didn't get it but found that the road
is under construction and speed limit is 50mp/h here. How in the hell could
we know about it? I guess policeman thought so to, we've got a warning
again. Before reaching Austin we visited Natural
Bridge Caverns and Wild Safari. Safari was very cool, that people can
even enter the cell with small animals.
We liked
Austin very much
and it's so green and friendly city and it's very hot too. We had a trip
to State Capitol, beautiful old building. Its architecture is similar to
the one in Washington. Also we found IBM there. Actually we wanted to take
a picture near IBM building but it was so difficult because all IBM buildings
and factories are inside enclosure with very restricted entrances... We
were very disappointed by this fact :( Actually Austin is a high-tech city
and there are a lot of software /hardware companies. It's very interesting
that Austin is a real city with many big building, many theatres and music
bars and a lot of hi-tech firms! We visited one bar where two men were
playing on the piano together. It was wonderful!
After
Austin we moved again but at this time to San
Antonio. It's third big city in the Texas. The most exciting thing
was Six Flag Fiesta Texas. It's a park with many attractions with american
rides and etc. Yeah, it's something scaring but very funny, great and a
lot of impressions. We tried all of the rides and were very excited! San
antonio is a big city and there a so many cars and so car jams... It has
a nice river walk with many restaurants, shops and etc...
On the
way home we visited Sonora Caverns and we liked them. These are very small
caverns but it has non ordinary natural structures in it. We returned home
happy to feel that we researched great Texas in just two weeks!