This memory is for my Star Trek fan friends and family. We missed the turn into Frye's driveway and had to go around "the block". (FYI, the blocks are Texas sized as well so it was probably a quarter mile round trip to get back to the driveway.) Here we are on the NASA Parkway and we had to make a right on to - here it comes!!!! - Kobayoshi Drive. If you are a Star Trek fan of either the original series or the new prequels, you will get this thanks to James T. Kirk's Star Fleet Academy days. I have to admit I was bouncing in my seat and laughing that the folks around NASA have such a great sense of humor.
We met our landlords, Bob and Maureen, this past week when they stopped by to change the filters on the furnace. It was nice to have faces to match with the phone calls and correspondence which were necessary to arrange our stay here in Galveston. They live about an hour northwest of the island.
When we were chatting Maureen mentioned going to Scotland to spread her mother's ashes when we were explaining our travel life style. Interesting fact is along the Galveston seawall there are slab granite jetties jutting out into the ocean. There are also many slabs stacked south of 80th street to build up beach. When Maureen was in Scotland in the Hebrides Islands, she was told one of the islands has a large granite quarry and the majority of the granite they ship out of Scotland goes to Galveston. The Scots didn't know why Galveston Texas was purchasing so much of their granite so she enjoyed explaining to them exactly what their granite was placed to do. You really can learn something new every day if you pay attention!!
So this past week we finally made it to the train museum here on the island. The trains were originally brought to the island to by-pass Houston. There was a amjor rivalry between business men on Galveston and Houston. We enjoyed the scale trains set up similar to my ex-boss' collection. I worked for David in Sacramento and he has built a layout of the Sierra foothill towns and their trains. The ones here in Galveston were multi-level with tunnels and trestles. Two older men were looking at them and saying "Gee I wish we could see them running" so I pushed the large button which said "Push Here to Start Trains"! It was their DUH moment. Out on the old tracks by the train station, we could look into the private train cars but were not permitted to enter. We were able to climb into a caboose, an engine, a fully restored mail car and a Pullman car donated from Canada. It was a nice morning trip and we got some really good pictures from there.
We are beginning to pack to leave Galveston and I will be very sad to go. I have enjoyed exploring this area and just kicking back for the past 3 months. On to Ohio, WV, & NC
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