More Katy

The Woman enjoyed her time with Kendy and Mike, as did I. We hit a bunch of local gems, including the Museum of Natural Science in Sugar Land Texas, another upscale suburb of Houston. Housed in the old Central State Prison Farm building constructed in 1939, the museum is an interesting mix of dinosaur remains and other prehistoric fossils combined with mineralogical and hands on exhibits.

We also visited San Filipe, a booming town in the early 1800’s. Sam Austin was an activist in San Filipe, and actually spent two years imprisoned in Mexico City for having the audacity of establishing a local government in San Filipe. 

In 1836 as Sam Houston and his Texas troops fell back after the defeat at the Alamo, he came through San Filipe, not wanting to accidentally provide Mexican General Santa Anna any supplies or materials, he ordered the town of San Filipe burned, and it was. We visited the J.J. Josey General Store there, the longest continuously operating general in the state. Built in 1847 after the end of the Mexican American War, it was continuously operated as a general store until 1942.

We also visited a Texas landmark, Buckeyes. A truck stop on steroids, Texans love Buckeyes. We drove through the stop, and found gas pump number 260 – can you believe 260 gas pumps! Our daughter Karen, a Texan at heart, told us to be sure to get one of their kolaches, which we failed to do. But we did gawk at the Guinness World Record holding longest car wash in the world. Great fun!

Talk to you soon!