Written by Vanilla Sugar on October 21, 2008
- The history of Texas is bloodied by the lives lost in the battles of Goliad and San Jacinto. We visited both of these silent battlefields – our first stops along our 10,000 mile grand...
Written by zabelle on August 4, 2007
- Museum of Fine Arts Houston1001 Bissonette StHoustonTracing its beginnings to an Art League to encourage art history and appreciation in the public school system in 1900, the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston opened...
Written by zabelle on January 17, 2007
- Cemeteries hold a certain fascination for me and when I found out that Howard Hughes was buried in Glenwood Cemetery along with some of Houston’s other interesting historical figures I had to stop by for...
Written by stomps on December 20, 2006
- John Milkovisch must have had the most loving, caring, patient wife in the world. I certainly don't know what I do if one day my husband came in and told me he didn't want to...
Written by stomps on December 20, 2006
- The first place we found in the Heights was the ArtCar Museum, which, along with the ArtCar Parade, is designed to showcase art that more traditional institutions will not. Located at 140 Heights Boulevard (between...
Written by stomps on December 20, 2006
- After visiting the Museum District, we continued down Montrose towards the various Montrose area locations on our list. We nearly passed the first, the Houston Public Library's Freed-Montrose branch at 4100 Montrose, before even noticing...
Written by stomps on December 20, 2006
- Our first group of stops on our Culture Quest were those in the Museum District. This made sense because they were within walking distance of Rice, so we could visit them all relatively quickly before...
Written by ssullivan on July 25, 2004
- Overview
METRO is the Houston metropolitan area’s provider of public transportation service. Until 2004, METRO was entirely a bus operation. However, on January 1, 2004, METRO opened the first segment of a planned 70+-mile light rail...
Written by stomps on December 20, 2006
- With only thirty minutes left before the deadline to be back at Rice, we rushed through the closest locations to Rice - those in Rice Village. The Village is a nice, but expensive, shopping and...
Written by mdl9482 on September 27, 2006
- So it was at this point I realized I would be spending the night in Houston, though I knew that would probably happen, it actually did. It was then I decided to get some...
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