Houston

From Dallas I went to Houston, and the drive was lovely.  There must've been a lot of rain in the area this year because Texas was green.  In a previous post, I had mentioned that in Colorado it was real clear that spring had not yet arrived. That was not the case in Texas. It was glorious.  it was also warm. I was really tired of the cold weather that I had had in New Mexico.

Bill and Sian and the boys were great.I had several days to spend with them, and Bill, Sian and I had a chance to play some golf. It was somewhat unbelievable that having only played on a golf course twice, Sian was able to hit competent fairway shots and was quite an inspiration. Bill hadn't played in quite a while either and was also hitting really well. We had quite a good time even though it was rather warm that day. I had a chance to talk with David about the possibility of his future as a biologist. He's been very busy running track. James has been playing football. He was a little late getting home several afternoons because of practice. As has been the case in almost everywhere outside of the Bay Area, I was amazed at the real estate prices in the Katy, Texas area. As I am planning on buying a house when I return to Vancouver, I'm real interested in relative prices.Bill and Sian have a beautiful house, which seems the right size for the two of them and two growing boys.

Of course Bill and I had to have our obligatory political discussion, and as completely expected, we didn't agree on everything in spite of the fact that we generally do know how to fix all of the problems of the world. I was a little sorry to leave Katy, and look forward to going back at some point in the near future. Given the recent events with the Gulf oil spill I hope that Houston is not eventually harmed. One bright spot however in moving on, was that I was moving on to New Orleans.