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Fun things to do in Houston

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Sixguns

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I am taking my wife to Houston, TX in about 3 weeks and am looking for some fun things to do. Any suggestions?
 
Houston Zoo
San Jacinto battleground
Battleship Texas
Galveston - see the monument to the hurricane of 1900
Frys - north or south
NASA

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If your into offshore fishing, there are some charter boats that leave out of Galveston.
 
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Multiple museums, but I prefer the Natural Science museum. You also have Moody Garden's out in Galveston, KEMAH Boardwalk on the way out there, NASA. You can go to Brenham for the Blue Bell Creamery - http://www.bluebell.com/the_little_creamery/visiting_blue_bell/VisitBB_Brenham.html. There's also some wineries out there.

If you're into it, there's several breweries out here - Southern Star in Conroe, Saint Arnold in Houston and No Label Brewery in Katy. You could also drive out to Shiner and see the Spoetzl Brewery.
 
St Arnolds Brewery on a Saturday. Bring a pizza and buy a collectors mug. They will fill it up with the same tokens as the smaller glasses.
 
Take her to Montrose 😛

But seriously any of the things mentioned above are great to do and I've done them all.

Oh and if you are a true tech nerd they have three fry's and a microcenter there 🙂
 
Houston isn't exciting. I would suggest the San Antonio/Austin/Hill country area instead
 
polarmystery said:
The most fun thing is to drive west past Houston and go San Antonio
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Can't say I disagree.

Texashiker said:
The best things about San Antonio, there is a loop that goes around it and the loop goes through New Braunfels.
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Which loop are you talking about? There are 2 loops *IN* San Antonio that does not go through New Braunfels, theres a "kinda loop" outside of that does, but this isn't considered a loop by anyone I know.
 
Lotheron said:
Which loop are you talking about? There are 2 loops *IN* San Antonio that does not go through New Braunfels, theres a "kinda loop" outside of that does, but this isn't considered a loop by anyone I know.
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Its not an "official" loop - exist interstate 10 at hwy 46. Take hwy 46 through New Braunfels, stop at the New Braunfels smoke house for something to eat, get back on 46, stay on it until you hit interstate 10 on the other side of San Antonio.

Its a nice scenic route and you avoid all of the city traffic.
 
San Antonio, Houston - been there, done that.

Avoid the freeway in Houston, and do go to Galveston if you get a chance.

The River Walk in SA is mahvelous as well as the San Frenando Cathedral (built in 1731). Oh yeah, dont forget the Alamo.
 
Texashiker said:
Its not an "official" loop - exist interstate 10 at hwy 46. Take hwy 46 through New Braunfels, stop at the New Braunfels smoke house for something to eat, get back on 46, stay on it until you hit interstate 10 on the other side of San Antonio.

Its a nice scenic route and you avoid all of the city traffic.
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And no mention of Schlitterbahn? Tsk, tsk.
 
GuitarDaddy said:
If you like the beach definately go to Galveston, it's about an hour drive from downtown Houston but well worth the trip.
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you'd have to be really hurting for a beach to really want to go to galveston. most people are turned off by the (nutrient rich) brown water (it's clean, the nutrients make it brown).


eat pho, houston is the pho capital of the US.


eat crawfish.




Texashiker said:
Its not an "official" loop - exist interstate 10 at hwy 46. Take hwy 46 through New Braunfels, stop at the New Braunfels smoke house for something to eat, get back on 46, stay on it until you hit interstate 10 on the other side of San Antonio.

Its a nice scenic route and you avoid all of the city traffic.
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if you're going to eat anywhere near there go to city market in luling, just off I-10. if you must eat in new braunfels go to rudy's instead of the smoke house.
 
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FelixDeKat said:
And no mention of Schlitterbahn? Tsk, tsk.
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Forget Schlitterbahn, I would rather go ride the rapids of the Guadalupe River.

Schlitterbahn is for people who are afraid of real water.


ElFenix said:
you'd have to be really hurting for a beach to really want to go to galveston. most people are turned off by the (nutrient rich) brown water (it's clean, the nutrients make it brown).
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That brown is also the sediment of the Sabine river.

The Neches River and the Sabine River combine at Sabine Lake between Bridge City and Port Arthur, then dumps into the Gulf. The sediment from both rivers flows towards Galveston.
 
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Houston sucks, to find anything interesting you need to drive out of the city.

Hempstead farmers market
Blue bell ice cream tour in brenham
 
ElFenix said:
you'd have to be really hurting for a beach to really want to go to galveston. most people are turned off by the (nutrient rich) brown water (it's clean, the nutrients make it brown).


eat pho, houston is the pho capital of the US.


eat crawfish.






if you're going to eat anywhere near there go to city market in luling, just off I-10. if you must eat in new braunfels go to rudy's instead of the smoke house.
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My wife loves how soft the galveston water makes her skin
 
Texashiker said:
That brown is also the sediment of the Sabine river.

The Neches River and the Sabine River combine at Sabine Lake between Bridge City and Port Arthur, then dumps into the Gulf. The sediment from both rivers flows towards Galveston.
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i've always heard it's from the mississippi :hmm:
 
ElFenix said:
i've always heard it's from the mississippi :hmm:
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The Mississippi adds a lot to it.

Between the Neches+Sabine and the Mississippi, you have 3 major rivers dumping into the gulf of mexico within a few hundred miles of each other.

If you have ever been offshore, a couple of miles out there is a brown water line. You can see the water change from brown to blue - its a visible line that you can see.

I used to go offshore fishing from time to time. We would put in at Sabine Pass and take the ship channel out to the gulf. From the mouth of the sabine river / ship channel, we would head south about 30 miles to a cluster of oil wells. As we were heading out, you could see the brown water coming from somewhere besides the sabine.
 
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