Posted by Texasmark1 on January 09, 2015 at 12:45:32 from (99.197.214.247):
In Reply to: What's to do in Texas posted by centash on January 09, 2015 at 11:54:27:
On trip to Gulf, plan your trip ahead of time via internet questions. If you plan to go to Port Aransas, offshore from Aransas Pass, about mid coast or to Padre Island..Port Isabel, down real close to the border with Mexico, there can be long waits for bridges and ferries to get off shore. Port Isabel has a very high bridge.
Galveston is closest but the water is not what it is farther down the coast. It's usually brown where farther down it's clear. I grew up about 50 miles N. of there. Corpus Christi might be a good place to visit as it is a larger town offering more amenities and a large boat basin and all. An off shore charter boat fishing trip may be to your liking. Expect to pay up to $1000 for a trip out in open water; local bay fishing would be half that or less depending on half or whole day. Boats furnish everything but the angler. Grin Book early as the good ones are usually booked up months in advance.
You can find about anything you want here. Contrary to the tabloids, we are not a bunch of wild west buckaroos. We are just as civilized as anywhere else, maybe more so in some respects.
Your best bet is to spend all the time you can on the internet and then go to a search engine and ask questions. Obviously people selling things will tell you how great this and that is, but common folks will give you the low down. Some of the Texas guys that frequent this site can help you.
I am between Dallas and Okla.
First of all Okla. has a no allowance speed limit and what's posted is the limit.....no fudging. Texas usually will forgive a few percent depending on time of day, how much you are over, traffic, location....school zones are zero tolerance, type road, if you appear to be a law breaker in your driving habits displayed, trooper's mood that day, and so on.
Dallas has all the variety you could ask for but you have to pay attention to the fine print. Like any place else, there are aspects of society that can ruin the best of vacations. Like any large city, plan your trips through them on a week day preferable in the 9-11 AM time frame. Obviously early morning traffic is horrible and that can last to around 9 am when the down town professionals arrive at work. Lunch traffic starts about 11 and lasts through 1 PM. by 3 PM the construction workers get off and that traffic lasts through 7 PM.
We have a lot of history here in the state and if you were to decide on Corpus and go through Ft. Worth (Cow Town, Stockyards a big attraction) and on down to New Braunfels, lots of history there, eats are great, mostly of German origin and such, and on to San Antonio every body has to do the River Walk where lots of fine dining can be had. Then South to Corpus through mostly flat land farming country.
For terrain and such, I'd suggest you Google Map search an area and go to the little road guy and let him show you just what things look like. We have rolling hills, deserts, piney woods, swamps, mountains, flat lands both near the coast and up around Lubbock on the Cap rock, on and on. Very diverse including traffic as discussed. But we have fine roads and cheap gas.
Other Texans surely will add to this but that's my 2c,
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