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31. Spent an overnight in Houston on the way to catch a cruise ship in Galveston..

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Fri Dec 5, 2025, 05:22 PM

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Agree with other posters that airport, transportation and hotel people were very friendly.

The scale of things in Texas is apparently different from Oregon though. We asked the desk person at the hotel where the nearest market was, and that we were on foot. "No problem", she said, "it's just down the street".

I think we walked a mile "just down the street", found the market just fine, but always remember that the distances there are in Texas miles.

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