From Houston, did you enjoy going south to Galveston?

Galveston has been having multiple days with blue/light green waters recently.

 

@Os Trigonum

 

as a kid, yes

as an adult, I’m good

 

what I loved more as a kid was my parents would drive down to this casino (can’t remember which one) and it had this massive play area where all the kids got dumped as the parents did their gambling

there was so much stuff to do in there and there’d be so many kids there…we’d get into so much sh*t…you’d go up in there knowing nobody and then end up with 10 different friends just having a blast in there

 

I haven't been to Galveston in probably a decade, as a kid it was awesome, now I don't want to fight the traffic to go to a mud pool and overpay for food that isn't all that great................stayed at the Galvez last time and that place is so overpriced. Hell, I just shoot down to Playa Del Carmen a few times a year to get my beach fix on, 2 hour flight and I can be on the beach before lunch

 

A lot of people don't realize how quick a flight is to Mexico and how relatively inexpensive it is to go there for a vacation. Lodging, activities and food are all much lower than vacationing in a place like Orlando or Vegas.

Back to Galveston... it's a quick drive for me from Friendswood, and I have a house there too so I can go any time. I'm still nominally plugged in to the local scene which I enjoy more than the beach, although I love driving down the Seawall or sitting on my porch smelling the salt air. Just a good vibe altogether, and local places are cheaper to eat at as well. I will say that the non-tourist-season bar scene has wilted compared to 20 years ago. Younger Millennials and Gen Z just don't drink like older Millennials and Gen X did when they were younger.

 

I miss being close to the beach. And now I'm not even close to a mountain.

Northeast Texas is not it.

 

The two reasons I moved back to Houston from four years in DFW: The people and the sea.

 

Bayou-luminescence.

 

Get off my Dickerson Bayou.

 

Corduroy to the horizon.

 

Beautiful

 

Galveston was never actually "worth" the drive. It was something you do because you were a bit bored and wanted the experience of being at the beach, but it was always disappointing when you are there.

 

bunch of tortas and dirty water.

 

Not true, the bad experience is when the water splashes your face. Everything else is good

 

I haven't been back to Galveston in 10 years probably, but from what I remember there were never any "nice" places to go in Galveston. It was just all around mediocre. Contrast this with what you might dream about as a kid when you think of beach resort towns, clear blue water, nice boardwalk, etc.

There was none of that whatsoever. It's just extremely disappointing when you go there as a kid.

 

We got some kooks in this thread.

 

The thing about Galveston is the people.

It's like our own little mini-Floridia in our own back yard. There's nothing specific, and I say this in the nicest possible way, but every time I'm in Galveston I feel like I should check to make sure all my immunizations are up to date and that I'm liberally using the hand sanitizer.

Beach life, even in Galveston, attracts a certain type of let-it-all-hang-out Jimmy Buffet type of weirdo, and non-marquee types of beach places like Galveston attract the lowest-rent version of that type of person.