This was the first of several Mega Churches seen on the road from Austin to Corpus Christi

San Antonio's version of the Space Needle

Tropical Foliage in Corpus Christi

The hotel I stayed in (the building on the left - not the bank building)

There were shrimp boats lining the pier selling fresh shrimp

A replica of one of the ships that Christopher Columbus used to sail the ocean blue in fourteen-hundred ninety-two

Same ship

Still the same ship

Not a ship - a group of birds, instead

That ship again - not a group of birds.

Neither a ship, nor a group of birds.

A dramatic sword fight, performed by fishes.

Upstairs at the convention center

What used to be a house

Invisible House!

Old courthouse - appears to have been shut down long ago

Palm trees, with the USS Lexington in the background

The USS Lexington, a famous aircraft carrier, as featured in "Pearl Harbor"

Corpus Christi art museum

A bridge, and a different Columbus ship

Normally that place would be flowing with water, but it was broken

A sculptural tribute to ceiling fans

Corpus Christi Bay

Outside the convention center

Saturday Evening Post - one of the top ten barbershop quartets in the world. The guy with the goatee is Tom Wilkie, former director of the Federal Way Harmony Kings, my first barbershop chorus.

Foliage

Black gold... Texas Tea