Highway6

Do they own all the houses around their Museum? The grey colored ones? That would be a great place to buy a house.

The Menil Foundation owns the majority of them, and they are picky about who they rent them out to.. like only artists, photographers, archi students, writers....

Yeah, She was pretty entertaining.

Thanks for posting that article with the picture. After hearing her stories, that is definately the home I'm most looking forward to seeing.

I had seen the Logan house in pictures before, but I wasn't sure of its location prior to the forum so I drove by last night just to glance. It must have been amazing with all the landscape cover before that development moved in next door. I know the bayou is open for all, and developers have just as much right to the next piece of property that we do... its just a shame the words developers and sensitivity can never be used favorably in the same sentence.

Anyways.. This will be my first RDA tour. Looking forward to it and I hope to have lots of pictures to share next week.

I'll be out of town tomorrow, so I intend to see all 8 on Sunday.

Start upstream near Waugh or thereabouts and head back west. Most people will tell you to start downtown at Allen's Landing, which is indeed cool, but navigating your kayak on foot through that area of downtown and down to the Bayou can be a little oft-putting.

Sadly, I don't really know of any place to rent Kayaks. I know there are places in the Kemah area but that's out of the way, obviously.

Also, if you're going to do it, do it now or in April before the mosquitoes really have a chance to get going. "Off" is nice and all but even that loses it's affectiveness after a while.

Is Rainbow lodge just a restaurant ? Seems like some of the Bayou Partnership Canoe tours start from there.

Does anyone know if there is actually a launch and rental facility there ?

Best hidden treasure: kayaking on Buffalo Bayou through Bayou Bend and Memorial Park.

Which I've wanted to do for awhile...

Where are cheap Kayak/Canoe rentals? Are there any actually on the bayou somewhere ?

Also, since you've done it before.. whats the best way to go about it...

Park downstream at Allans, paddle upstream and float back

or

Start way upstream, and have someone else meet you downstream with your truck?

This street also wins Best street to imitate the Houston Grand Prix in your Boxster.

Runner Up - The Washington @ Westcott Circle coming from the South....

Cheapest Drinks Inside the Loop (where you won't get stabbed) - Sherlock's Pub, W. Gray

sherlocks is good.. but have ya tried Cecil's on west grey... realllly cheap also.

Favorite drive: Memorial from Downtown to Uptown.

Well. I prefer the opposite direction.... But "Amen, Brother" anyways !!

Best street to go 65 and scare the beeggeebees out of your roomie :

The Shepherd S just north of West Gray.

http://www.aynart.com/astroworldphoto.htm

Panoramic photo of what the scene looks like currently. Larger version at the link above.

HOLY ****

That is such a depressing picture.

Does anyone remember there being a bungee jump right off the west loop ?

It seems it was just south of 59.

For those of you that do remember it, does anyone have pictures they can post?

I see your fustration about not respecting Texas history, but for one, please remember that it's not ALL of one community that opposed and protesting the name. Just a select few. I didn't even know there was any public outcry for a name change until I read in the Chronicle that the team was changing it. From what I understand, the MLS wants the soccer team name that NOBODY protests. It's not the first time this has happened. Washington Bullets: offended and protested by non-violent advocates. Now the Washington Wizards. Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, and Washington Redskins still get protested by Native Americans due to sensitivity issues. But those teams have been in their home cities for over 40 years. Houston 1836 just moved to Houston a few months ago, and does not any kind of negative image because of it's name. And they (and we) didn't realize that people out there would be offended by Houston's history, but apparantly some are. If you get mad at anyone, please be mad at the people offended, and not the entire MLS, or the entire Mexican American community. It's not their fault. It's the extremists, yo.

I'm Jamaican-American. I LOVE the Jamaican national soccer team, United States soccer team, Korean soccer team, and Mexican soccer team, because I've lived in all four places at one point. I'll root for all four (and Trinidad, 'cause I'm Carribean) at the World Cup, but if I go for just one, I gotta cheer for America first. (I think Germany will win)

Highway6, who will you root for this year?

My frustration is not with MLS.. it is with the owner of our team that is giving in to one part of his fan base to the detriment of the whole fan base.

My frustration is not with the entire Mexican-American community... it is with those in that community that put the Mexican part before the American part.

I actually am not a soccer fan... yet.

Same with hockey.

As a guy that has lived in Houston most his life, I've never had the local exposure to either.

I root for US and Italian teams in the olympics for hockey or whatever other sport is going on. If its Italians vs Americans, I root for the American team to demolish the Italian team.

Same holds true for World Cup soccer.

I have always seen soccer just as much as a European sport as Hispanic sport.

As a sports fan, my first love with always be Astros baseball and Aggie football, I do however love the fact that Houston is getting a MLS team, and look forward to going to games and learning the sport.

As a Houston and Texas fan, I was even more hooked on the idea of of soccer coming to Houston when the name Houston 1836 was released... becasue I take pride in being a Houstonian and Texan.

I would not be a Houstonian or Texan had we not won our independence from Mexico.

Also... remember this. Just prior to Texas earning its independence from Mexico, Mexico earned its independence from Spain. They did not hold on to being Mexican Spaniards, or New World Spaniards.. They were Mexicans.

Same should be true for all Texans, no matter what ones ethnic heritage is.

America used to be a melting pot. Now it is a bunch of groups that hate America for one reason or another.

This is another example of the overly sensitive, pansification of America, PC times we live in. United States is not seen as a community of individuals, but as an array of groups, each whose demands must be met, often to the detriment of another group.

If Mexican Americans are offended at this... Why are they here?

This is so ridiculous that we have to pander to groups that raise a stink like this. If they are offended about this, then they have conflicting national allegiances and need to leave. Texas Won. America won. Mexico lost. Period. Texans should not have to feel ashamed at history.... If you live here now, You are Texan and you are American... totally independant of your ethnic origins.

Why is it some ethnic groups can't balance who they are now with who they were? In a country as diverse as ours, we will always have race problems because certain ethnicities refuse to be color blind.

Our country has forever shifted from melting pot of peoples to multi-cultural mosaic.. and we will forever have problems like this.

I am Italian American. I'n very proud of my Sicilian heritage.

I do not get upset at the thought of some of my ancestors fighting on the wrong side of history during WW II. Im proud to be Italian. I'm even more proud to be American and Texan.

Whats worse is not that the Mexican American community is bitching. It's that MLS and the team owners will give in, all becasue of the hispanice fan base here. What.. us White people and Yellow people and Black people aren't soccer fans in Houston? How many other MLS team cities have to worry bout their hispanic fan base? Soccer is not a hispanic sport. It is a world sport.

The Chicago Fire. Another great MLS team name marking an important event in that cities history. Tragic event.. yes. But an event that forever transformed Chicago and led it to become the great city it is today.. YES !

Chicago is not ashamed of its history. Texans should nto be ashamed of ours either.

What is next? Are we going to have to change the name of our great city because Mexican Americans are offended at living in a city named for the hero of the Texas Independence ?