Houston Stories and Tips

Quote: The history of Texas is bloodied by the lives lost in the battles of Goliad and San Jacinto. We visited both of these silent battlefields – our first stops along our 10,000 mile grand tour of the US and Canada.To me Goliad meant only…

Quote: Museum of Fine Arts Houston1001 Bissonette StHoustonTracing its beginnings to an Art League to encourage art history and appreciation in the public school system in 1900, the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston opened its door in 1924 becoming the first art museum in…

Quote: John Milkovisch must have had the most loving, caring, patient wife in the world. I certainly don't know what I do if one day my husband came in and told me he didn't want to mow the lawn anymore so he was just going to…

Quote: The first place we found in the Heights was the ArtCar Museum, which, along with the ArtCar Parade, is designed to showcase art that more traditional institutions will not. Located at 140 Heights Boulevard (between Washington Ave and the Katy Freeway), we somehow managed to…

Quote: After visiting the Museum District, we continued down Montrose towards the various Montrose area locations on our list. We nearly passed the first, the Houston Public Library's Freed-Montrose branch at 4100 Montrose, before even noticing it was there! An interesting fact about this library, listed…

Quote: Our first group of stops on our Culture Quest were those in the Museum District. This made sense because they were within walking distance of Rice, so we could visit them all relatively quickly before striking out for more distant destinations.The first stop was the…

Quote: Overview METRO is the Houston metropolitan area’s provider of public transportation service. Until 2004, METRO was entirely a bus operation. However, on January 1, 2004, METRO opened the first segment of a planned 70+-mile light rail network to be constructed over the next twenty years. Dubbed…

Quote: Ask anyone who lives in California especially in San Francisco why they would visit Houston Texas and they would mostly likely say I would not. I fit in that bucket of living in San Francisco, California. So, why am I going to Houston? I grew…

Quote: With only thirty minutes left before the deadline to be back at Rice, we rushed through the closest locations to Rice - those in Rice Village. The Village is a nice, but expensive, shopping and dining area just to the west of Rice University's campus.…

Quote: So it was at this point I realized I would be spending the night in Houston, though I knew that would probably happen, it actually did. It was then I decided to get some food and proceeded to the nearest vendor, spotting a Taco…