Corpus Christi TX

SAT May 22

A nice slow day of less than 150 miles as I drove North from Brownsville to Corpus Christi where I am staying at the Naval Air Station RV park right on the bay. Temperature is mid-80s and the air is heavy with the feel and smell of salt from the Gulf and bay.

I haven’t been to NAS Corpus Christi since 1962 or 63 and it has definitely seen better times but it is hanging in there and shows visitors a very welcome time.

SAT was shopping day and laundry day, not exciting things but necessary things.

Oh yes a couple of things I forgot to mention about yesterday in Brownsville:
A FIRST: and that is one of the things this trip is all about, firsts.
I was approaching a high school; not a first.
There was a school crossing sign both before and after the school; not a first.
The FIRST was under the school crossing signs were additional signs that said “No cell phone use.” I have been in lots of places that either banned cell phone use or restricted use to hands-free but this was the first time that I had seen banning in the school area.

The second thing I forgot to mention was I drove passed the Customs & Border Protection Detention Center, read prison, in Brownville area and it was well back from the road and screened by lots of vegetation, fencing and armed guards.