# How do you feel about Texas? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 8, 2021, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-texas/937412 "2021-03-08T00:20:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2021, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-texas/937412/102 "2021-03-29T13:18:19Z")
I would like to see the 6th floor museum. Also like to stand near the X spot and get a feel for the distance of the shot. I understand from the gun folks that it was a pretty easy shot, a layup in basketball terms as opposed to a free throw. Anyone been to Big Bend National Park? I just imagine it to be insufferably hot and mosquito-filled but if it’s worth a stop I’d like to know. ---
**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2021, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-texas/937412/103 "2021-03-29T13:23:17Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Anyone been to Big Bend National Park? I just imagine it to be insufferably hot and mosquito-filled but if it’s worth a stop I’d like to know. It has been many, many years since I’ve been there, but WHEN you go is, of course, significant. Middle of August? Yeah brutally hot. On the other hand, we were “snowed in” in The Basin over Thanksgiving one year. It is generally pretty dry there, so I’m not sure mosquitos would be a significant issue. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2021, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-texas/937412/104 "2021-03-29T13:30:37Z")
I think Norman Malier put it best when he called Texas “America’s America”. BTW, I saw Dealy Plaza in the late seventies. The tape was still on the street from the House Committee investigation. ---
**Author:** ![Kepi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kepi/32/7251_2.png) [@Kepi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kepi)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2021, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-texas/937412/105 "2021-03-29T13:57:32Z")
I’ve never been to Big Bend, but I don’t imagine mosquitoes are a problem. It’s in the Chihuahuan Desert, so I would guess it would be comparable to other desert areas. It borders a long stretch of the Rio Grande, so maybe there would be some potential for mosquitoes along that. ---
**Author:** ![Reno\_Nevada\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecc23a/32.png) [@Reno\_Nevada\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reno_Nevada_Jr)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-texas/937412/106 "2021-03-31T23:22:09Z")
I lived in Houston for about 15 years. I also had a kind of love/hate relationship with it. There is a lot of good things there–cost of living is low, so I saved plenty of money. The people ARE very friendly, so I made and kept a lot of friends. I was working at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, which was very cool. On the other hand, the Houston area is flat, hot, humid, polluted, and those mosquitos are murderous. > [@BobLibDem](#): > > Not sure if there’s much to see at NASA in Houston but that’s another thing on my list of things to visit. Space Center Houston is the public museum/activity center attached to Johnson Space Center. It is well worth visiting. You can tour the Center, including a visit to the Apollo Mission Control Center. I worked in Bldg 32, which was built around the Apollo-era vacuum chamber built to test the Apollo command modules and lunar landers, and was sometimes on the tour itinerary. It was something to work in a place so cool that tourists visit. > [@Die\_Capacitrix](#): > > I have the idea that Galveston is another place popular with snowbirds, like Florida, but doesn’t have much else going for it. Galveston has a beach-front on the Gulf of Mexico. The water is bath-water warm, and brown with silt. If you visit, stop by Elissa, the Tall Ship of Texas: > **[1877 ELISSA & Texas Seaport Museum - Galveston Historical Foundation](https://www.galvestonhistory.org/sites/1877-tall-ship-elissa-at-the-galveston-historic-seaport)** > > The 1877 Tall Ship ELISSA welcomes visitors at the Texas Seaport Museum. Experience Galveston's maritime history daily at Galveston's Pier 22. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-texas/937412.md?page=5)