Sometimes the best adventures are the unplanned ones. We arrived here in Baytown, Texas, which is near Galveston, at about 2 PM today. As the day was early we asked if there was anything nearby to do and if there were some nice restaurants around. The answer to both was “Kemah Beach Boardwalk”, about 20 minutes south of here.
After setting up the RV and getting the dogs settled in we drove down to Kemah. The boardwalk is clean, bright and shiny, and has lots of neat funky shops, but no “been there pins.” It also has, “The Beast”, a monster speed boat with twin 3500 horse engines that can seat 100 people. We signed up for the 5PM tour and there were only about 20 of us hardy souls on board. It was a blast! That thing screams! And it heels over so far it throws water all over all of us passengers. We were soaked, and it was great fun. I spoke with Skippy, the 25 year old “Captain” (he looks 12) and he told me he was in college getting his engineering degree. I told him, “Screw engineering, this is waaaaay more fun.”
After the boat ride we slogged our way down to a nice restaurant, “The Sugerweed Inn” or something like that. The food was average and plenty of it, the service was excellent, and the prices were only too high rather than way too high. So, considering we are on vacation, it was exactly right for us.
Once again the advertised WiFi doesn’t reach us so this will have to be posted later. Maybe Cheryl can add some words then.
Later,
Soaking Wet Frank
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