| Author | Message | ||
| Alan Leach (Speedy308)
Junior Member Username: Speedy308 Post Number: 244 Registered: 12-2002 |
Well I can relate to that one! Last glass I broke was from a GOLF BALL sized piece of gravel! It came in like a slice from the other side of the Loop 610. Thankfully hit the unoccupied passenger side becasue that baby almost came thru, sending powdered glass everywhere on that side. And don't forget the nails! I fix about three flats a month on average. I said to heck with it and moved about six blocks away from work. I can ride my skateboard in now on the Bike Trail system. | ||
| Kelly Hayes (Khayes)
New member Username: Khayes Post Number: 45 Registered: 4-2003 |
I lost my 4th windshield in Houston this week so far this year. I was in my Mercedes and went under an overpass and a giant rock fell to my windshield and cracked it. I put 52,000 miles on that car this year driving between Dallas, Austin, Houston and Corpus and all four windshields were cracked in Houston. | ||
| Alan Leach (Speedy308)
Junior Member Username: Speedy308 Post Number: 239 Registered: 12-2002 |
You guys better come to my next F1 party!! We had the racing karts out and everything! It's a drag Suzuka is on the Running of the Bulls weekend. I hope my suite has SPEED! Ya'll gonna come out to The Farm? | ||
| ty (360mode)
Junior Member Username: 360mode Post Number: 217 Registered: 9-2002 |
gallant knight - houston classic  | ||
| TC (Houston) (Tec)
Member Username: Tec Post Number: 270 Registered: 2-2002 |
Houston is such a great place to live. Good restaurants, warm weather (haha), plenty of parking, and cheap housing. | ||
| Alan Leach (Speedy308)
Junior Member Username: Speedy308 Post Number: 226 Registered: 12-2002 |
The wonderful spots in Houston are almost too numerous to list, But we have great restaurants and some great live music venues as well. My ears are still ringing from last night's show at the open air Plaza downtown with my friends The John Evans Band and the Derailers. Then Two Tons of Steel at Blanco's was a good cool down with some western swing. Tonight is Jesse Dayton and Dale Watson at the Continental Club. I guess my life is just one big backstage pass! "That's my baby in the white boots, that's my baby on the dance floor" SRV | ||
| Alan Leach (Speedy308)
Junior Member Username: Speedy308 Post Number: 225 Registered: 12-2002 |
Dan, Contact me via email and I will get you hooked up! I just released a room at the Browning Plantation in Chappel Hill for that weekend, if you need a wonderful B&B between Bellville and the track. The Conroe Cajun Catfish Festival is that weekend also, with great Texas music, so I'll be bouncing back and forth between the two events! Come on down! Anyone else going to make it??? | ||
| Dan Gordon (Ferruccio)
Junior Member Username: Ferruccio Post Number: 239 Registered: 2-2003 |
I am going to Texas Running of the Bulls next week and was wondering where to eat, play, and site see in Houston? Also if there is any place between houston and Kansas city I should stop and see. Thanks in advance. DAN | ||
| Alan Leach (Speedy308)
Junior Member Username: Speedy308 Post Number: 211 Registered: 12-2002 |
Hey Jordan! Thanks for dropping by. Well, most people are polite. We have had a few drivers move in from south of the border, and their motor skills are not as good. I received a citation last night downtown from the most polite officer, who noted my vehicle and asked that I slow down, and not be so LOUD. He also noted my inspection had expired a few years ago, and asked me to address this as well. This is my town. Derailers at Party on the Plaza tonight, with Two Tons of Steel at Blanco's. Fall on in, and tell 'em Speedy sent you! | ||
| Jordan Witherspoon (Jordan747_400)
Intermediate Member Username: Jordan747_400 Post Number: 2064 Registered: 12-2002 |
Houston is a FANTASTIC city...lived there for 8 years...Only ironic that I now Im "stuck" in California a few miles away from Bart. Californians are snobs...I just miss the friendly people of Texas, you cant beat them. I would gladly put up with the heat and humidity to have some good old fashion friendly neighbors and people that still had class and manners. BTW, I used to live in a town called Sugarland, a suburb of Houston aptly named because of the big sugar factory we had. Although I think the factory closed recently. Anyone on the website from around there? Time to escape back to the SoCal section before they find out I was spying over here | ||
| Bart Duesler (The_bart)
Member Username: The_bart Post Number: 366 Registered: 1-2003 |
The more I think about Houston, the better I like it. The few people I met were nice and polite. I think I will do business in Texas. Never drive less than 12 cylinders! | ||
| William Huber (Solipsist)
Intermediate Member Username: Solipsist Post Number: 1336 Registered: 9-2001 |
"Some people were born in Houston, and are trapped here." I can relate to this Ralph, I was born here then moveed to Ft. Worth, then came back in 2002. It's a good thing that I love TEXAS. | ||
| Dale W Spradling (Drtax)
Member Username: Drtax Post Number: 410 Registered: 4-2003 |
Many, many, many past lives ago, I complained to the head partner of the firm that I had just joined about the smell of our bad air. He just smiled and said, "That, my son, is the smell of money." Actually, there are a few twisties around, but I ain't gonna post them on the Internet. It's bad enough as it is whut with radical bicyclists wearing nuthin but their underpants and big and bad Harley types doing 50 MPH plugging up the few good roads we do have. And yes, us H-Town types have a major inferiority complex when it comes to our slick cousins to the North. The typical Dallasite is named Biff, who drives a Lexus with gold trim, talking on his cell phone, typing on his Blackberry, while on his way to get a pedicure. Meanwhile in Houston, our typical driver is Jim-Bob Jumpback driving a 72 Chevy Pickemup truck with holes in the bed so the beer cans can roll out while he drives to work after waking up in an ice house on Telephone Road. We jus ain't got no culture. Yep, it may be Tobacco Road. But it's home, and it's the only life that we have ever known. DW | ||
| Ralph Koslin (Ralfabco)
Member Username: Ralfabco Post Number: 843 Registered: 3-2002 |
Some people were born in Houston, and are trapped here. | ||
| BobD (Bobd)
Intermediate Member Username: Bobd Post Number: 1541 Registered: 3-2001 |
Great people in Houston!!! But I'm not a big fan of 98% humidity and mosquitoes the size of sparrows. Not that Dallas is like living in the desert but it eventually dries out a little in the summer. | ||
| ty (360mode)
Junior Member Username: 360mode Post Number: 197 Registered: 9-2002 |
>>Blue-haired formation drivers going 5-10 mph under the limit and concealed handgun laws don't mix.<< good one! don't get me wrong, i love houston but there's a reason i don't live in the 'burbs and commute to work! | ||
| James P. Smith (Tigermilk)
Junior Member Username: Tigermilk Post Number: 201 Registered: 7-2001 |
I'd like to contest both points: 1) flat??? 1 foot/mile of elevation rise isn't flat. Our hills are just small. 2) You picked the wrong freeways. Your speeds are on par with the freeways I frequent (45S, B8, 288, 59N). Was doing 80-90 on the way to work this morning in the 308. Now the side roads can be infuriating. Blue-haired formation drivers going 5-10 mph under the limit and concealed handgun laws don't mix. | ||
| Alan Leach (Speedy308)
Junior Member Username: Speedy308 Post Number: 198 Registered: 12-2002 |
Houston is a GREAT town!!!! Hot blues at the Continental on Main St. Country acts - REAL ones -at Blanco's. International Festival, Art Car parade, hell man ya just gotta know where to look! | ||
| William Huber (Solipsist)
Intermediate Member Username: Solipsist Post Number: 1333 Registered: 9-2001 |
On some parts of Westhiemer, folks drive faster than some highway speeds. I lived here almost 2 years & most people still drive like doo doo. I fell your pain Ty. | ||
| Kelly Hayes (Khayes)
New member Username: Khayes Post Number: 42 Registered: 4-2003 |
This weekend I drove my Testarossa from FoH in Houston to Shreveport to Dallas and then home to Austin. That was a fun 9 hours of driving. I have driven my car to Houston three times this summer and it has rained every time. The only time I drove 70 mph was in the rain and traffic of Houston. | ||
| ty (360mode)
Junior Member Username: 360mode Post Number: 192 Registered: 9-2002 |
lol... i was driving down richmond yesterday which is only a 35. none of the 3 cars in front of me, perfectly spread out across the 3 lanes so i could not get around i might add, was going over 30. those are the times you just wanna ram one of the cars outta the way and say, "it was worth it"! another recent thing that happened to me... i was sitting at buffalo and 59 feeder heading south. the light turns green, she doesn't go, no cars are running the red, so i honk to tell her to get a move on. she glares at me in her rear view mirror and gives me the finger. wtf. | ||
| Ralph Koslin (Ralfabco)
Member Username: Ralfabco Post Number: 831 Registered: 3-2002 |
You are correct Bart ~ There are some good roads close by though. Yes some of us in Houston have determined that the best way to go fast; is in the right hand lane. This place is just a boring business town. | ||
| Bart Duesler (The_bart)
Member Username: The_bart Post Number: 363 Registered: 1-2003 |
Last week, I came into Houston at 3:00 p.m. and left on a 6:05 a.m. flight the next day. This was my first time in Houston since I was a child. I wish to comment about two things. One: your land is flat. Two: people only drive 60 miles an hour on your freeways. I drove 70 � 75 mph. Bart (#108-108) |