What I did on my summer vacation

For the break I visited Padre Island.

[Padre Island]

Padre Island is on the Texas Gulf Coast near Corpus Christi. Note strategic placement of camera shot to avoid marring picture with oil rigs.

If you get tired of the beach, there are canals and lakes. If you are into boating and fishing this is the place for you. It is Texas so it is hot and humid, but not as bad as it is inland.

It's a slow place with it's own pace. But change is coming. Real eatate has appreciated 15-20% just in the last year partially on the promise of a new deep water channel that is being dug allowing easier access to the sea. Lots of upscale condos being built.

[Padre Island townhomes]

Locals are talking about a McDonalds that is planned for the main drag... just wait, next it will be Starbucks.

It took me a while to shake the languid calm out of my soul. But an afternoon talking about upgrading all our java.sun.com web servers to 6.1 in three data centers seems to have done it. Welcome back.

Kathy

P.S. I'll edit this with pictures when I get a chance, I have to crop them down first

Posted on: Jul 15, 2004

Posted by: KitchenSink

Category: General

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Added pictures.

Posted by kathy on July 16, 2004 at 06:02 PM PDT #

Why do people build these things right on the flood banks? Something I will never understand.

Posted by Andrew Jung on July 30, 2004 at 08:09 AM PDT #

The whole island is a flood plain! Why the insurance is so dear (expensive). Out on mustang island, all the older houses are built on stilts. You park underneath and climb the stairs to your house. Seems like a good idea to me, wonder why the new construction isn't using this approach.

Posted by Kathy on July 30, 2004 at 05:37 PM PDT #

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