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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

Yeah, Houston is a ways from the coast. Still, I feel like I'm close enough to the coast when I'm there to call it that. If I can see palm trees and even ocean going ships while driving over the ship channel, then it's close enough. Plus, when we've been in Houston before, we go ahead and make the trip to Galveston just to make it to the coast. The drive from Austin to Galveston via Houston is about the same for us from Austin to Corpus Christi.

Yes, Galveston has tons of historic buildings, though, less than they did because of the monster 1900 hurricane. I forget the name, but there's one building in downtown that was built in 1895 that was designed by the same architect - Elijah E. Myers, who did the Texas Capitol 7 years earlier. If you go, definitely check out the downtown area. The Strand and even just the neighborhoods are historic.

Thanks for the infos