Leaving Fulton

We landed here in Fulton, Texas 10 days ago. You've already seen our first stop for a culinary delight (Boiling Pot restaurant in last blog). Now I'll run you around the Fulton/Rockport area.

First, while sitting in Moon Dog's, drinking a Shiner Bock (top of the line from a Texas brewery) and eating sweet potatoe fries, I snapped a picture of the new, modern shrimp fleet. There is a lot of oyster harvesting here too, and the fleet is equally niceeeee. (Ooops, after looking at the picture in it's reduced size in this post, you can't see that my comment is tongue in cheek, the fleet is a bit weather worn)


We took a little drive out onto Allegro Key, where the poor live. As you can see, this is a poverty stricken area. I saw three lots still available (all lots are on waterways). I'm guessing, because it is such a depressed area you could pick one up for a song. On yeah, speaking of songs, George Strait (country singer) has a house here.

Now this little gem is off the market, as it was snapped up in the 1970's by the state department of parks. It has been restored to its 1877 glory and is available for tours, which of course we did.

The house was built by George Ware Fulton. He started it in 1874 and completed it in 1877. It was so well built that it has survived 6 (or maybe it was 8) direct hits by hurricanes. George, you see, had many jobs during his early years, including bridge building. He was part of the engineering team that built the first suspension bridge between Lexington, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio (still in use today). He was offered a job on the team that built the Brooklyn bridge, but turned it down so he could return to Texas.

Like this view? It is the view from George Fulton's front porch. I think I could take it, as long as someone else paid the property tax bill. Originally it rested on 60 acres of beach front property, but only about 2 acres of that remain undeveloped.

Well, y'all, we are movin' on tomorrow. More to come in a few days from a more northerly spot.

In The Boiling Pot

No we're not in a boiling pot, well, yes we were, but it was the Boiling Pot Restaurant. This place is across the road from the beach in Fulton, Texas (25 miles North of Corpus Christi on the Gulf of Mexico). It is a real hole in the wall complete with cinder block walls, a tin roof, and bikers. However, they do a great Cajun seafood boil.
As you can see, this place made us put on our happy faces.

No wonder. If you like Cajun and you like seafood, well you just couldn't help smiling.By the way, that's not a table cloth, it is butchers wrapping paper. And there are no plates, no utensils (except the mallet and a plastic fork), and they bring the food out in a pot and dump it on your table. When you are done they just wad the paper up with all the remains inside, put it in the trash can and recover the table with some more paper. Now that is ease of operation.

Just an Update

Time has slipped by, my last post was February 4th. It hasn't been because I have been too busy, but more on that later.

Here is a picture of the truck (just washed and waxed) and the trailer (just washed and waxed) sitting on our lot here in the RV park in Donna, Texas. Do you see the heat waves rising off the waxed surfaces? Okay, I don't either, but they should be there. The temperature when I took this picture (at 4:00 PM) was 102 degrees. Too hot for me, we will start our trek North in 7 days.Those trees off to the right are our own private ruby red grapefruits. We've eaten a lot of grapefruit this winter.

Okay, why so long between entries. Mostly because I like to blab about sightseeing and we haven't done much at all. This is not what I would call scenic country. It is just flat and warm and good for growing vegetable gardens. I guess maybe I could have taken pictures of the plentiful vegetable markets... I must give some credit to the area, though, the bougainvilleas are beautiful.

So, since I've been staying in a lot, I have been entertaining myself with new toys. Here is my toy play table (aka the dining room table).My new toys include include a digital picture frame, which also plays music recorded in MP3 format (cooool). A 500 GB external disk drive. Can you believe that? That is more storage than all the disks on the corporate system when I retired. And it is the size of a bag of tortillas (that is more suggestive of size to my Hispanic readers than others).

I have also acquired a Garmin handheld GPS including topo maps for the entire US. Now I am ready to go anywhere on my new ATV (which I have not aquired yet, but acquisition is eminent). Now the combination of these two should make for some great photo ops and some good blogs this summer.