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alias Jetpig
my favorite flying marine mammals are the dolphins in "A hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" singing "goodbye, and thank's for all the fish". That's also my favorite apocolypse-some days I'd vote to demolish the earth too!
Marine mammals are protected , though. I wouldn't try to fly any bottlenose dolphins around Galveston.
There was an Army blimp base across West Bay in Hitchcock during WWII, used to scout for submarines attacking the tankers of oil and gasoline going to Europe. My father told me that it was rumored that German U Boat crews would row ashore for leave getting drunk at the houses of prostitution on Post Office Street. The remains of the blimp hangers are still there, six giant concrete supports over a huge concrete slab.
Bob Ebersole
you said: The remains of the blimp hangers are still there, six giant concrete supports over a huge concrete slab.
where exactly is this? I'd like to see it. can you post a map of it or something? I may have seen and never noticed. thanks!
At the intersection of highway 6 and 2004 in hitchcock, head south on 2004. It will be a few miles down on the left.
I found them on google earth. Pretty cool.
I think the most appropriate way for us to decide to demolish the earth is through an overlooked rider on a committee energy bill.. but that's just me. (Or is that how it is already playing out?)
Ok, I'd better go play with my action figures again and regain some control of my universe!
Hey, another poster asked me if I'm going to ASPO-Houston, and while the irony of traveling from Maine is too harsh (Unless I get tix on the Graf Zeppelin Mach Zwei).. are you going to it?
RF
I'll be there, its only 50 miles from my home to the hotel. I've known Jim Baldauf at ASPO for about 35 years, and he has no problem imposing on his friends for grunt work, so I'm sure I'll be helping.
I'm think its going to be a great conference. Awareness has really grown in the media, and they have some great speakers and workshop leaders lined up. I'd love to see peak oil and energy policy become a campaign issue, and there are going to be some big guns there. The Houston Mayor, Bill White is a former secretary of energy and a top fund raiser for the Democrats and is speaking.
Ok guy's, here's the real scoop. Thelma's Bar Be Que has the most awesome brisket sandwitch in the southern U.S.. Her pork ribs are so succulent and beautiful they belong on the wall of the Contemporary Arts Museum. Its that East Texas black-style oak smoked meat, a great homemade sauce-and cheap. $5 or $6 bucks is guaranteed to raise your cholesterol level about 100 points and leave you grinning a greasy smile, and its only about 10 blocks from the hotel.
I'm one of Texas's great experts in cheap ethnic food. I know it sounds a little immodest, but ask my friends. Houston has at least 6 different ways to purchase goat, my infallible indicator of a town's ethnic food potential. Admittedly Chicago has better pizza, New York is the king of hot pastrami and stuffed cabbage rolls-but Houston has at least two all-you-can-eat Indian food places with great goat cury, numerous Mexican food restaurants selling cabrito(roast goat) and birria (steamed baby goat) tacos, guisado(stew) and burritos, and Vietnamese and Thai coconut milk goat curry.
So diet before you come, I'll be happy to guide anyone. Or, if you'd rather, seafood, boudain, and gumbo, soul food, or just steaks.
Bob Ebersole
There's another one at Tillamook, Oregon.
I grew up near Hitchcock and had seen the blimp base columns all my life. In Tillamook, there were the exact same columns, and next to them was another set with the hangar intact - it was cool to get to see what it originally looked like. It's now the Tillamook Air Museum
http://www.tillamookair.com/