Cruising Houston
As a member of a professional organization I recently had an opportunity
to visit Houston, the site of our national convention. Texas' largest
city abounds with diversions, from sailboats and space ships to baseball
and butterflies…and traffic. To navigate the Houston roadways, we
engaged a Houston bus rental.
Arriving a few days in advance to take in some area attractions, the
first day found us answering the call of nearby Galveston and
its balmy Gulf Coast beaches. After a pleasant 60 minute trip by charter
bus, we arrived in Galveston's Strand
Historic District. We were delighted by the charmingly restored buildings
adorned with ornate iron work, once part of Galveston's port history,
now home to restaurants, boutiques, and galleries. Anchored down the
street at Pier 21, some toured the Elissa,
a completely restored tall ship circa 1880. We ended our day languishing
in the sun and sand along the beachfront.
The next morning we reconvened aboard our Houston bus rental for the
30 minute drive to the Johnson Space
Center. Here you can take a "giant step for mankind" at Space Center
Houston's visitors complex, where you can enjoy an interactive experience
touching actual moon rocks, and spacecraft and take a tram tour of astronaut
training facilities and Mission Control.
By afternoon, we were headed to Houston's Hermann
Park area. There we discovered a plethora of museums and galleries.
At one stop we were able to take in the Houston
Museum of Natural Science, complete with planetarium, natural history
museum, and IMAX. Co-joined to the museum is a glass cone known as the Cockrell
Butterfly Center, where your senses are stimulated with a walk through
lush gardens surrounded by thousands of brilliant butterflies.
Butterflies not your cup of tea? Then seek out the Contemporary
Arts Museum, Museum
of Fine Arts, Holocaust Museum of Houston, Children's
Museum of Houston, and Museum of Health & Medical
Science, all a short stroll away.
Returning to our hotel to freshen up for evening activities, the group
faced a fork in the road. Luckily our Houston bus rental faced no such
fork as we headed downtown dressed in evening wear and jeans. Once there,
those donning evening wear headed to the Wortham
Theater Center, home to the Houston Ballet and Grand Opera. Our colleagues
in jeans and baseball caps headed for new Enron Field, home to the Houston
Astros. Successfully satiating both the wine/caviar and beer/peanut
palates among us, we journeyed back to the hotel at day's end to prepare
for our national convention the next day.
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