Galveston

Houston is about an hour from the Gulf and Galveston Island, so we decided to spend the day at the beach. The first half of the journey was the same as going to NASA. The freeway was still reasonably quiet which was great.

The historic city of Galveston was made up of beautiful old buildings. Even better there was free parking on the street. The one issue in the USA is finding public toilets. They had some but it did mean walking the length of the town. After exploring the shops, but not spending anything we had a very pleasant lunch at a restaurant on the water front. Across the harbour there were three oil rigs parked up.

The next stop was the ocean side of the island. There was a lot more accommodation here, and parking meters along the whole length of the road. We drove to the very end to the mouth of the harbour. It was busy with a number of ships in view. A few miles back along the beach there was a pier. We thought we would explore it and paid for a car park only to discover that you had to pay a small fortune just to get on the pier. So we walked along the beach front instead. It was a very hot day so we did not walk too far.

Back in the car we drove along the beach for several miles before turning for home. We decide we would go to Dairy Queen for an ice cream. They make great ice creams by mixing in interesting flavours and bits such as peanut butter cups and oreos. We bought a small size and it was massive. If we had bought a large one we would probably still be there trying to finish it.

We had passed some factory shops on the freeway so returned to have a look. By the time we got there the heavens had opened with a thunder storm. We got quite wet getting from the car to the shops. Once again we assisted the US economy.

Oil rigs Galveston 

Run Forest Run - Outside Bubba Gumps Galvston Pier

One of the colourful seats at Galveston

We called in to a neighbouring food mart to get something for dinner as by now it was getting too late to go out for a meal when we got back to the hotel.