It has been awhile since posting, but the Internet was lousy at Marina Bay RV so I just did what I had to and waited until now.
Our time in Houston was great: good times with daughter Shanie and her friends; meeting up with the Singh family, former parishioners and friends from Burlington; friends from our AF days in Texas and meeting their friends; and enjoying the area as much as we could.
The one negative was the Houston traffic in that it never seemed to end. An afternoon at the Houston Holocaust Museum was both informative and disturbing as a reminder of our ability to be extremely cruel to one another. We are still processing the experience. Since then we have watched "The Diary of Anne Frank" and "Judgement at Nuremberg." The larger question is how do we live in such a way that honors our differences and seeks understanding of those differences. Bill Moyers' recent interview with Jonathan Haidt, on Bill Moyers new show, Bill Moyers and Company has helped me understand one way to address this issue.
At any rate, we are now in Port Aransas, TX - on Mustang Island, near Corpus Christi. Very nice, though wish it was sunny and warmer. We are staying at the Pioneer RV Park and find it to be a very friendly place. Lots of snowbirds of course. Ran into a former fellow Minnesotan who was from Danube not many miles west on 212 from where I grew up, in Bird Island. Yesterday I had breakfast with a friend from Burlington...our lockers are near one another at the Y.
We visited the Padre Island National Seashore yesterday and spent some time on or near the beach. Sadly, the beach is littered with trash and visitors are asked to help with its removal. Next time we visit we will take gloves and trash bags and do just that. Most of the litter we were told comes from the Gulf and is deposited on the beach by the tide. Despite the litter we enjoyed seeing many, many species of sea birds/water fowl. We must invest in binoculars.
Tomorrow we head to Mission, TX and will be there through 9 March.
So far we have not taken many pics, but will process the ones we have taken in the next few days.
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