History notes:
Seems like I travel a lot with a particular book in hand, Roadside History of Texas.
Full of interesting facts like, 30% of Texas’ population lives within a few miles of the ocean. Sea. Gulf of Mexico, call it whatever. No fences can be erected on the water’s edge; therefore, there’s no restriction on access to the beach. And Padre Island is the longest barrier island in the northern hemisphere. Maybe the world, no access to figure that out at this point.;
There’s always something special about being on the coast, the Texas coast. It’s part island attitude. Less than 200 miles south of San Antonio, and yet, except for tenuous historical threads and old Spanish missions, the land grants from almost 200 years ago, the bloody Texas history, and similar bits of lore and myth, the modern age feels like this is a place that sometimes is forgotten in town.
I got a picture, but it’ll be a while before I can get it up on the web, but there was that old theater, I’m guessing a movie theater, called ‘CENTRE’ and it was one, of about three? Maybe more? Can’t say, haven’t spent enough time in downtown Corpus to know for sure, but it did seem like an unusually high number of theaters for such a small town.
Unrelated:
Animal totems? Two, so far, and I’m missing the dolphins. No, I’ve seen them before, I might see them again on this trip, usually, they show up alongside the bow of the ferry.
Saturday morning, early, an owl tried to do a nosedive on the car’s windshield. Saturday night, driving the back island road to the motel? There was a wolf – too big to be a coyote – alongside one of the channels. It looked up at the headlights and went back to feeding. Probably a seagull or a rabbit.
