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These days of preparing for the Houston move have me suffering from insomnia and waking far too early. I blame it partially on the red -eye from Vegas at the beginning of the week.
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A detailed recap of the trip will be posted at time when I have more rest…
Our vacation is now over. A red-eye flight out of Vegas had us arriving in Atlanta at 8-ish AM. We are now back in an apartment full of boxes, which by weeks end, will be packed up in a truck ready to be driven to Houston.
Is it smart to relocate to a new city in 5 days after driving 1,700 miles out west, plus a late-night flight back here?…
Well, almost 7 years ago, 10 days after we married, we packed up our New Orleans apartment, moved to Vegas with no job and no place to stay. So, we will be arriving in Houston with more plans in place than that first move.
And we got some help with the unloading the truck once we are there! Behold the power that is friends-who-have-friends-in-Houston, beer and food!
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…Gonna set my soul on fire.
Vegas! The big trip starts tomorrow. But its not just Sin City. Once we fly out, the roadtrip will be all around the west. LA, Palms Springs, Yuma AZ, Quartszite AZ, Phoenix, Jerome AZ, Flagstaff, and back to Vegas. Oh, and a little side trip near San Diego.
Pictures to be coming once I’m on the road.
I’m doing with Houston what I did when I first learned about our move to Atlanta. Scoured the web for blogs and websites about the city, put them in to a reader and wait for people to say interesting things about the city they live in.
When I blog it always come back to being local. Eccentric personal pursuits aside, I get real pleasure getting to know a place and like blogging about these discoveries. So, while preparing for our final move, I wait and read, learning about our new home.
And that’s what I’m doing now.
So, I’m checking my web stats and found that some people had looked at my site because of this picture from Bent Fabrication (which I had hot-linked to, bad internet behavior.) I’ve corrected that situation by stealing the picture. So much better! I will be emailing for permission sometime soon.
And where does he live? Houston. I’m going to like this city I think.
More good kids stuff as seen in “Modern Mechanix” – Two-Wheel Stroller.
Or a beautifully unsafe 50’s car seat below (as seen in the Peterson Automobile Museum.) Fortunately, our modern age provides us both with much-improved safety seats and carriages, and the ability to buy all these vintage child-mangling toys of death on eBay.
Saw Mr. Cheese and his band at the Roxy last night. Good times. This show make 10 total that we’ve seen him and all but this one in Sin City. Definitely a different crowd than the ones in Vegas. As my wife pointed out, unlike the Atlanta show in Vegas you don’t have to do much to make the girls dance on stage. Dick seemed to be drinking more then usual. Bought a shirt, it looks like a piano before being opened.
I love his lounge-style covers. Which is why I bummed that I will be missing the Puppini Sisters at the Ferst Center at Georgia Tech. They do Andrew Sisters-style covers of modern toons like Gloria Gainer’s “I Will Survive,” Blondie’s “Heart Of Glass,” and “Panic” by The Smiths. I’ll be in Houston at the time of their show in Atlanta and then they will be heading back to England. So no chance to see them life anytime soon.
My favorite is their cover of Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights”. Their myspace page has a great sounding audio file, but I’ve posted an okay sounding Youtube video performance so you can see what’s going on at G-Tech.
The flights, delayed.
The trip, a success.
A home, found.
Day 1: In addition to rentals found through the internet, the owner of the B&B (Sara’s Bed and Breakfast) provided us with a couple of printed pages from the Houston Association of Realtor webpage. He had already recommended a great place to eat the night before. Vietnam Restaurant provided much needed health after bad airport food and at $20 for the two of us was easy on the budget. We wouldn’t have found the place with out the guidance and it was just what we needed that night.
Day 2: Much time was spent driving, and very little picture-taking. The city is deserving of more photography. Looking for places, bad time management led to low blood sugar and food issues. Found some good-bad chinese (you know greasy & and tasty plus cheap) which restored much-needed marital happiness. Found a few promising leads and driving all over Houston was good exposure to the city. Blocked roads in the medical district meant traveling 2 blocks in 50 minutes. The cause, nicked gas main by construction guys. Damn them! Dinner = Italian at Spaghetti Western. Went to art opening at Lawndale Art Center.
Day 3: The end of our search was near. Drove around the overcast city, surprising the missus with David Adicke’s studios and giant head repository.
The massive collection of giant presidential head make the warehouse’s storage lot a political Easter Island. But it wasn’t just politicians.
Monstrous Beatles! After that, more apartment searching. By 5pm a place settled upon. Low end of the spending limit may equal new laptop due to savings. iFrugel! Ate France in the morning and Belgium at night at Cafe Montrose. Muscles and fritz (or mussels and frites for those sticklers for accuracy) for the missus. No thank you sez I. The evening… spent with Harry Potter.
Day 4: Play day! Visited the Artcar Museum. Many pictures taken.
Me with a dog on a car. Also grabbed a local arts calender. Before flight, drove around city and made fun of bad mansions. Whole neighborhood full of boring, rich people with no imagination who built dull, large houses. The upside?… no gates to keep the riff raff from viewing the poor taste and making rude comments.
Lastly a postponed flight got use home hours later then expected. Tired but relieved.
Learned that this will be a good city to call home. The people we met were generous with their time and advice. Two of the landlords we didn’t choose may be good sources for job-related info. One offered to help despite being told we choose a different rental than his. The other offered an introduction to a couple of intriguing collectors. More on that once we move to the city. All in all a promising start.
Neon Poisoning 