The gas down here has been good to the pocket book. The Texans give us all a break! Or was this a defunct station?
We started the day visiting the King Ranch store. It had some nice looking chairs and benches made of cow hide and some with hair on the back. It had a lot of clothing with the running W brand on it. The neat part was the saddle making area. They had a number of saddles in different states of being built.
Off to Corpus, we were headed to the South Texas Botanical Gardens and Nature Center. We again had a no cost tour; we belong to U of MN Botanical Society. This is just south of the city. It has an orchid house with over 2,000 plants, Cattleya, Phaleonopsis, Pathiopedlum and Dendrobium. What beautiful colors, orange, white, purple, white with many different colored trimmings. The rose garden was in full bloom for the second time. Then there were tropical collections of bromeliads, cycads, cacti and succulents. The colors of the hibiscus, oleanders, and bougainvillea bloom nearly all year round and today were just beautiful. We walked the graveled paths around the pond with its wildlife, indigenous trees, especially the different types of mesquite and ebony trees. A nice place to visit for an hour and a half.
They recommended Andy’s restaurant, they are only open from 6 am to 2:30 pm. Turns out it has a railroad train motif. Two tracks above the eating area, train memorabilia abounds. What a neat place and I was wearing a T-shirt with a locomotive on it, by chance. The food was great, Shirleen had too much of a vegetable omelet with hash browns, I a chicken fried steak with white gravy and French fries. What a great meal and place. Rachael Ray back in 1993 did her meals on $40 dollars a day segment at this restaurant.
Now we went to the downtown area of Corpus Christi, not a lot to look at. Found a nice hotel, Best Western, five floors up overlooking the gulf and sand islands. We then walked down to Landry’s Restaurant. A nice seafood place to eat, we had shrimp scampi, fried shrimp, fried fresh catch Pontchartrain, stuffed shrimp and sautéed scallops with a delicious orzo pasta. The shrimp were over done but the flavors were just great, would not eat there tomorrow but would next month. Nice harbor area, tomorrow a historic home tour, looked nice and some other areas of the arts. We also found the Cathedral for tomorrow. More to come tomorrow – Jerr
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